por THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
granulate; prothorax longer than broad, smooth, finely and sparsely 
"punctured ; angles rounded; basal margin closely embracing elytra ; 
scutellum prolonged, polished; elytra with six distinctly punctured striæ 
which do not quite reach the apex ; intervals broadly rounded. 
Inhabits Southern and Gulf States; abundant. Our largest curculio, 
of which numerous varieties occur while immature, the most common 
variety has the elytra and thorax reddish-brown, with three black spots on 
elytra and one or more on thorax. 
The larvee bore in the roots and stocks of the Palmetto, in the latter 
part of June and July. When about to pupate, they construct an oblong 
cocoon, which consists of layers of fibres and excrement loosely woven 
together. These are invariably formed at the thickened basal. part of 
leaves’ stems, from which the imago issues in September and October. 
They do not seem to be attracted by the lamp, but on several occasions 
during the month of February, in the vicinity of New Orleans, I have 
observed large numbers flying among the Palmetto’s, when they would 
produce a buzzing noise similar to Copris carolina~ They seem most 
partial to the older and more injured plants, particularly those having 
been burnt. As many as sixty specimens have occurred in a single tree. 
MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 
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CYLLENE, 8€/1. 7107. 
Anterior and posterior wings linear lanceolate, and apparently destitute 
of nervures. (In a single specimen of the hind wing, mounted as a 
microscopic specimen in Canada balsam, a short costal nervure, a sub- 
costal and an independent nervure close along the posterior margin, but 
not beginning at the base, are visible, but ordinarily I can find no trace of 
any nervure except ferhaps the costal is visible; to all ordinary observation 
the wings are without nervures.) The posterior are excised from the 
basal fourth of the costal margin to the apex. Size minute. The other 
generic characters are those of Clymene (supra), and itis characterized like 
it by the erect or reversed hair-like scales. But it lacks the pale spots in 
the integuménts of the wings, which characterize CZymene 
