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band ; caudal seta? black, piceous at base ; g last ventral segment 

 deep black ; 9 antepenultimate one truncated, orange, two short 

 setiform appendages ? (they cannot be clearly seen) ; wings gray- 

 ish-hyaline, clouded with fuscous, veins fuscous. 



Length to tip of wings 31 — 34 millim. Expanse of wings 55 — 

 66 millim. 



Hab. New York. 



Does the "smaller, new species" from Sherbrooke, Lower 

 Canada (Gosse, Canadian Naturalist), belong here ? 



5. P. californica. 



Pteronarcys calif ornicus Newp.! Trans. Linn. Soe. XX, 450. Proceed. 

 Linn. Soc. I, 388. Walk.! Catal. 140, 5. 



Fuscous ; labrum, clypeus and front rufous ; prothorax with an 

 interrupted, yellow line upon the middle ; abdomen orange-yellowish, 

 the sides fuscous, the last ventral segment broad, pilose, the apex 

 deeply incised ; caudal setss at base yellow ; antenna? and feet 

 black ; wings with obscure black veins, pterostigmal spot absent. 



(Description taken from that of Mr. Newport.) (Male.) 



Almost the size of P. proteus. 



Hab. California (Hartweg). 



I saw the species in the British Museum, but I am not now able 

 to furnish a more accurate description. 



6. P. insignis. 



Kollaria insignis Pictet, Perl. 123 ; tab. iv, fig. 1 — 8. Walker, Catal. 

 138, 1. 



Fuscous ; head equal in width to prothorax ; prothorax quadran- 

 gular, on middle a yellow line ; abdomen black, segments margined 

 behind with yellow; feet yellowish-brown, knees yellowish ; caudal 

 seta? fuscous, yellow at base ; ? antepenultimate ventral segment 

 truncated, two very short setiform appendages ? (from the figure) ; 

 wings grayish-hyaline, before the apex clouded with fuscous ; 

 maxillary palpi very long. 



(Description taken from the description and figure of Pictet.) 



Length to tip of wings 53 millim. Expanse of wings 86 millim. 



Hab. The locality unknown. Vienna Museum. It has the 

 habitus of an American insect. I have not seen the typical spe- 

 cimen : from the figure and description of Pictet it seems to be a 

 Pteronarcys. The generic character is derived from the length of 



