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marginal cell and crossing to a small extent the third longitudinal 

 vein, but being exactly limited by this vein near the apex of the 

 wing ; the costal cell is tinged with brownish-gray as far as a 

 little beyond the humeral crossvein ; the stigma has the same 

 color, but this is sometimes more blackened, especially towards 

 its end ; the last section of the fourth longitudinal vein converges 

 in its w T hole course towards the third vein and approaches it con- 

 siderably towards its end; shows, however, hardly any perceptible 

 curvature ; the fifth longitudinal vein does not quite reach the 

 margin of the wing. 



Bab. District of Columbia, New York, Illinois, Connecticut 

 (Osten-Sacken). 1 



Observation. — Wiedemann gives a description of the male of 

 this species which might easily lead to the conclusion that he had 

 before him a species different from the one I have just described. 

 According to his statement, the male has, on the posterior margin 

 of the penultimate abdominal segment, a saturate yellow cross- 

 band. But as Wiedemann's collection contains as Ortalis notata 

 the very species which I described under this name and as, among 

 a considerable number of males which I have before me, not a 

 single one is provided with such a crossband, I am compelled to 

 come to the conclusion that Wiedemann mistook the sex of the 

 specimen from which he drew his description ; he may have had 

 before him a female the ovipositor of which was bent under the 

 abdomen. 



4. E. nitidiventris n. sp. $ .— Nigro-viridis, nitida, abdomine 

 feminae toto aeneo-viridi et nitidissimo, pedibus gilvis, tibiis anticis totis 

 posterioribusque adversus apicem infuscatis, tarsis adversus apicem 

 fusco-nigris, alarum maeulis duabus nigris, altera costali minuta, altera 

 apicali trigonal, cellulaa costalis basi lutea, stigmate ex luteo cinereo. 



Shining black-green, the entire abdomen of the female metallic-green, very 

 shining. Feet saturate yellow, the entire fore tibiae and the posterior 

 ones towards their tip, infuscated ; tarsi brownish-black towards the 

 tip ; wings with a small black dot on the middle of the costa and with 

 a larger triangular spot at the apex of the wing ; basis of the costal cell 

 clay-yellow; stigma yellowish-gray. Long. corp. 0.14—0.15; long. al. 

 0.14^0.15. 



1 Mr. Riley gave me a male specimen of E. notata which he bred from 

 the pulp of an osage-orange {Madura). — 0. 9. 



