HULLETlh UF THE BBUOKLYA ENT. SOC. \r, 



Description of Nycterophaeta Magdalena, n. sp. 

 By Geo. I). Hii.si. 



Kxpands 42 mm. {1% inches nearly); of uniform clear white, with 

 a satiny luster above: primaries with a small black spot near the middle 

 and another at the end of the discal cell, and three or four dots of the 

 same color at the outer margin, terminating some of the veins. Hah. 

 Black Hills. H. K. .Morrison. 



Col. Hulst, Grsef, Tepper, Hy. Edwards and Neumoegen. 



This beautiful insect I handed to my friend Mr. John B. Smith for 

 generic determination, and was informed by him diat it could not be prop- 

 erly placed in any of the existing genera: at my request he furnished the 

 following description. 



Nycterophaeta, n. gen. J.B. Smith, 



Robust: eyes naked, with rather short but distinct lashes; ocelli 

 present: clypeus with a bulging convex protuberence, varying somewhat 

 in length in the specimens: r~f antennae simple- palpi closely applied to 

 the front, and reaching to but not exceeding tne vertex: Second joint 

 heavy, with dense hairy clothing: terminal joint slender, cylindrical, trun- 

 cate at tip: tongue long, strong, corneus: tibiae spinulated; anterior 

 rather short, flattened, broadening toward the tip where it is obliquelv 

 truncate and armed with three strong claws, of which the inner is longest: 

 vestiture hairy, fine and long: on thorax somewhat bunched, but forming 

 no decided tuft: abdomen un tufted: primaries elongate, narrow, sub-lan- 

 ceolate: secondaries moderate. 



Closely allied to Cucullia in which it very much resembles superficially: 

 sufficiently separated from this genus however by the formation of the 

 clypeus, and the armature of the anterior tibia: it also lacks the peculiar 

 elevated collar and tuftings ofcCusullia: it agrees in manv respects with 

 Cleophana and should stand between that genus and Cucullia.. 



Revised edition of the Classification of Coleoptera. 



Owing to the repeated demands for the Classification of the Coleop- 

 tera of North America the Smithsonian Institution has resolved to print a 

 new edition, the old having, been long since exhausted. As Drs. Leconte 

 and Horn are now devoting all their leisure to the revision it is hoped 

 they may not be too often interrupted by the demands of their correspond- 

 ents for names of species, and that individual interest will yield to the 

 general arood. 



