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margin, however, by making it resemble Halesidota (Bombycidz) 
in size and outline, his opinion being necessarily superficial. In 
tions with Basilodes and Stiria, both in coloration, markings, 
thoracic vestiture, frontal protuberance, compressed and exsertile 
ovipositor, wing-venation and tibial armature, the form of win 
having less classificatory importance. It might therefore, with 
propriety, be placed in the Stiriina, a sub-family which has not 
en very clearly defined, and in which Mr. Grote would bring 
together several striking and aberrant forms! The small and in- 
teresting Xanthothrix neumögenii H. Edw., has not only a sug- 
gestive resemblance in color and marking, but real relationship 
in the character of the frontal protruberance, tibial claw and 
exsertile ovipositor. Nonagria has a quite different frontal pro- 
jection, while Chariclea* Kirby, as defined by Lederer, has differ- 
ent clypeal and thoracic characteristics, and a stronger tongue, 
the European delphinii being the only species having the front 
tibial claw. Since the capture of our first male we have ob- 
tained other specimens from Missouri and Kansas, among them 
two females, and the following generic characters will assist lepi- 
dopterists in properly placing it : 
Form robust. Head small; antennz with the basal joint scaled ; eyes naked, full, 
globose; palpi short and slender with joints 1 and 2 subequal in length; 3 one- 
third as long as 2; tongue feeble; clypeus (Q) with a central transversely oval 
Projection ending in a brown corneous mouth or excavation, the lips being sharp, 
arched dorsally, straight ventrally where a cylindrical, black tubercle projects yet 
Somewhat further; an inferior, curved, sharp, clypeal carina; in the the protru- 
ice, its excavation and the emargination are feebler. Thorax = with hairs 
rima i 
rounded, but with some variation in this respect; Venation as in, tiria, 7. 2. 
normal. Ovipositor horny compressed from sides, simple and exsertile. 
Structure is a very safe guide to habit, and we may conclude 
that the Stiriinze with their horny, exsertile and specialized ovi- 
oa APC DIE Oe 
> Papilio, 111, p 32. i 
We know nothing of Chariclea Stephens whom Staudinger gives- as authority 
for nis. i 
* Mr. Smith has well characterized Chariclea in his recent Synopsis of the Heli- 
ER referred to last month. i 
Since this was written Mr. Grote has published his latest views on the Stiriinæ 
(Can. Ent XV, pp. 72-77), justifying our views as abov vexpressed, by desig: vagy 
ES Citthophanus, and placing it in the Stiriinæ. He defines Cirrhophanus for 5 
arth time, but still inaccuratety by omitting the front tibial claw, and on e 
=, POSitor. The ovipositor may not always be exserted, but it is, as in Basitodes, 
tiria, and Stibadium exsertile, and often remains exserted in the dried specimen. 
