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rather closely, but the differences given in the remarks following the 

 description in comparing it with icorice do not agree very well with 

 the above described species. 



The female is rather dull while the male is more shining. The 

 vestiture of the prothorax is not uniform, some of the scales are longer 

 and there are here and there a few very narrow, hair-like scales. 



Phloeotribus texanus, new species. 



Similar to frontalis but of slightly shorter form and darker color ; thorax more 

 deeply punctate and more coarsely asperate in front and at sides ; punctures of the 

 elytral striae rather larger ; the tubercles on the intervals smaller and more widely 

 spaced with the setfe arising from or near these tubercles shorter and slightly stouter, 

 the front of the head in the male more deeply impressed, with the sides from the eye 

 to the small acute tubercle distinctly elevated. The female has at middle of the faint 

 crescentic elevation of the front a small fovea-like puncture. Length 2 mm. ; width 

 I mm. 



Brownsville, Texas. 



A NEW ORCHELIMUM FROM STATEN ISLAND 

 AND NEW JERSEY. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, N. V. 



Several years ago a specimen of Orchelimum with quite a straight 

 ovipositor was found on Staten Island. In September, 1907, the same 

 species was collected in considerable numbers on the salt meadows at 

 Tuckerton, N. J., and Mr. Lewis B. Woodruff has shown me an 

 example from Rockaway, Long Island, N. Y. 



In having a somewhat straight ovipositor the insect resembles deli- 

 catum Bruner and gladiator Bruner from the Middle West, and fidi- 

 cinium Rehn and Hebard from northern Florida. The sub-genital 

 plate does not reach the tips of the cerci as in delicatum, and accord- 

 ing to Mr. Blatchley, who has kindly compared it with authentic 

 gladiator, it is much more slender in body, tegmina and legs than that 

 species. In the two species mentioned and in fidicinium the hind 

 femora are said to be without spines, whereas in the present species 

 each hind femur usually has from one to three spines. Two males in ' 

 thirteen examples are without spines. The females are more often 

 without them. 



