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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[May, '07 



of the eyes and ocelli back and lighter from that line to the mouth. 

 A few white hairs clothe the head, clypeus and lips, and are more 

 numerous over the latter. Maxillary palpi white. Antennae white. 

 A fox-red band extends forward from the eye and becomes obsolete 

 at the root of the antennas. A light fusion of the same color is found 

 surrounding the anterior ocellus, extending towards the clypeus. The 

 ocelli are mounted in three beautiful rounded dark cherry-red bodies. 



Fig. 1. — 1st and 2nd wings of Ocellataria gravinympha. 



The prothorax marked on the side by a fox-red stripe. Superior 

 surface of femora darker than the inferior. The mesothorax is light 

 reddish-brown on the dorsum, and towards the anterior border con- 

 tains a light median spot. Under the wings it is white. The meta- 

 thorax is marked the same on the dorsum. The wings are of a 

 transparent glassy white structure. The margins and veins black. The 

 first segment of the abdomen is white; the second, third, fourth, 

 fifth and sixth are bluish-grey on the dorsal surface, the seventh is 

 lighter in color, the eighth and ninth or apical retractive portion of the 

 abdomen is dark. To the unaided eye the general color effect of the 

 insect is that of a dark greyish spotted body with a faint yellowish head. 

 With the hand glass, appear the beautiful red mounted ocelli and black 

 eyes and yellow head, dark thorax and wings, the white first and seventh 

 abdominal segments with the rest bluish grey, which renders the insect 

 of a spotted appearance. 



The first pair of femora are slightly dilated and are larger than 

 those of the middle or hind pair. The front tibiae are slightly longer 

 than the femora; the tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae, the first 

 tarsal joint is longer than the combined length of the second and 

 third. The middle pair of tibiae are about one-fifth longer than the 

 femora ; the tibiae are one-fourth longer than the tarsi ; the first tarsal 

 joint one and one-half times longer than the second and third joints 



