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It has just the merest rudiments of wings — and from its color and 

 size, I have no doubt it has, if taken, been looked upon as the 

 5 of one of the species of Anisopteryx {=Paleacrita, Alsophila). 

 It is of a grayish black color. Antennae and legs annulated with 

 white. Thorax and abdomen marked above more or less with 

 blackish." 



This description is at variance with two specimens which I 

 secured in the Catskill Mts. in early winter, November 26 and 

 27, 191 5. There had been a fall of snow eighteen inches deep 

 some days before, but it had melted rapidly and these examples 

 were taken walking up the trunks of maples, one in the early 

 morning, the other at dusk. The males had been rather plentiful 

 some ten days previous. 



Dr. Hulst was prone to mix his species, and his description 

 above quoted applies apparently to an example of the so-called 

 Anisopteryx among the several before him, and for this reason I 

 append the following: 



5. Length 23-25 mm. Form slender. Palpi slender, porrect. 

 Tongue rudimentary. Antennae long and fine. Frons broad, 

 slightly bulging. Eyes large. Legs rather long. Hind femora 

 a little heavier and twisted, with all spurs. Vestiture smooth. 

 Color a faded seal brown inclining to yellowish, with a sprinkling 

 of ashen white scales. Antennae brown above, white beneath. 

 Front and thorax above brown ; beneath more heavily ashen. 

 Tip of abdomen white. Abdomen above with ashen scales, 

 mixed rather freely with brown, leaving a dorsal patch of clear 

 brown on the first segment of the abdomen, with decreasingly 

 smaller ones on the next three or four segments following. Legs 

 and tarsi brown, with their inner surfaces ashen. Wing pads 

 very small, brown tipped with ashen. 



It will be observed that the legs and antennae are not annulate 

 with white and the colors differ from the original description. 



The specimens above described are in the collection of the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York. If my 

 notes are correct, the original type specimens are not in existence. 



