84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
vure not on a line with the intercubital nervure, but received by the 
second cubital cell near its basal corner; interno-discoidal cell slightly 
shorter than the externo-discoidal ; legs pale yellowish-ferruginous, tarsi 
paler, their terminal joint black, apex of posterior femora, above, tips of 
their tarsi and near their base, dusky ; abdomen smooth and polished, 
first segment slender, black, finely and longitudinally aciculated ; second 
segment pale luteous; third and following segments more or less black- 
ish ; ovipositor generally as long or longer than first abdominal segment, 
sometimes nearly as long as abdomen. Length .16 inch. 
g .—Antennz longer and more or less dusky or blackish above ; occi- 
put blackish; thorax generally entirely black, except more or less of ~ 
prothorax and sometimes the scutellum ; legs sometimes uniformly pale — 
honey-yellow ; the tarsi generally more or less dusky; third and following 
abdominal segments black. Length .r4—.16 inch. 
Hab.—New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Illinois. Five ©, four À, speci- 
mens. A ® specimen from Arizona has the abdomen beyond first seg- 
ment pale luteous, slightly discolored at apex. It appears to be only a 
variety. 
8. PERILITUS HUMILIS. JV. sp.—®.— Black; mouth, palpi and 
antennæ ferruginous, the latter dusky above, short, with close set joints ; 
face and cheeks piceous; metathorax rugose ; tegulæ pale yellowish ; 
wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma fuscous ; second cubital cell 
quadrate, recurrent nervure on a line and confluent with the intercubital 
nervure ; interno-discoidal cell shorter at base than the externo-discoidal ; _ 
legs pale honey-yellow, posterior pair more or less dusky, base of posterior 
tibize pale ; abdomen black, second segment pale honey-yellow; ovipositor 
as long as thorax and abdomen together. Length .14 inch. 
ffab.—Illinois. Closely allied to dimidiatus, but distinct by the black 
head and shorter antennal joints. 
ABBOTT’S NOTES ON GEORGIAN BUTTERFEIES: 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, BOSTON, MASS. 
Continued from Page 77. 
VOLUME XVI. 
*XVI., 274.—Zurnus. Feeds on the ash figured (¢rifoliata), and on 
swamp ash (Fraxinus platycarpa ? A.W.C.) ; chrysalis June 20, gave 
imago July 4. 
