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Subdivision II. 



Wings with three submarginal cells. 



Photopsis nro Blake. 



Male.— Ferruginous ; head round, not as wide as thorax, minutely punctured, 

 thinly clothed with erect white hairs ; eyes round, prominent ; scape of antenna? 

 finely punctured ; thorax robust, ovate, closely punctured, mesothorax with two 

 longitudinal, impressed lines, sparsely clothed with erect white hairs, metathorax 

 roundly truncate, coarsely reticulate, excavations of the flanks smooth : wings 

 yellowish hyaline, margiDal cell ovate lanceolate, abruptly truncate at tip ; first 

 submarginal subovate, pointed at base, second subtriangular, receiving the first 

 recurrent nervure before the middle ; tegulse honey yellow : legs fuscous, clothed 

 with whitish pubescence ; abdomen short, petiolate, minutely punctured, smooth ; 

 apical margins of segments thinly fringed with white pubescence. Length 

 10 mm. 



Hab. — Texas. Two specimens. 



Photopsis castanea Cresson. 



Male. — Uniform dark chestnut brown, densely and finely punctured, shining, 

 clothed with a thin, palish-pubescence ; head slightly wider than the thorax, the 

 eyes very large and prominent, entire ; ocelli very large and prominent, enclosed 

 by a black spot ; face much depressed beneath the antenna? ; upper surface of 

 the mandibles broad and concave, outer surface rather densely clothed with 

 short yellowish pubescence ; palpi pale luteous ; antenna? longer than the head 

 and thorax, fulvo-testaceous, and when viewed sideways they have a scolloped 

 appearance, the joints beneath being contracted at their sutures; thorax broad 

 and truncate in front, prothorax closely punctured, depressed above and some- 

 what prominent on each side ; mesothorax subconvex, with large, deep, sparse 

 punctures ; on each side over the tegula? a deeply impressed longitudinal line ; 

 scutellum large, with large, scattered punctures ; pleura densely punctured ; 

 metathorax quadrate, with scattered punctures, shining, abrupt on the sides and 

 behind, the posterior face concave; on the dorsal middle two longitudinal ap- 

 proximated carina?, confluent behind ; tegula? smooth and polished, chestnut 

 brown ; wings pale yellowish hyaline ; nervures fuscous, stigma rather large : 

 marginal cell short, obliquely truncate at tip ; three distinct submarginal cells, 

 the first long and narrow, nearly as long as the stigma and marginal cell taken 

 together ; the second longitudinally subtriangular, much narrowed towards the 

 base of the wing and continued beneath the first submarginal to near its base, 

 .receiving the first recurrent nervure beyond the middle ; third submarginal very 

 short, narrow, transversely quadrate, receiving the second recurrent nervure at 

 the apex ; legs fulvo-testaceous, clothed with pale yellowish pubescence, quite 

 dense on the tibia? and tarsi ; abdomen elongate, sparsely punctured, shining, 

 the punctures becoming finer and less distinct towards the apex, the pubescence 

 on the basal segments short and thin, longer and thicker on the apical segment ; 

 first segment large and much swollen, with a short peduncle, the segment nearly 

 I as broad as the second, the apical margin constricted ; last ventral segment with 

 a long, acute, recurved spine. Length 13 mm. ; expanse of wings 22.5 mm. 



Hab. — Lower California. Mr. H. Ulke. 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. XIII. (35) SEPTEMBER, 1386. 



