Grote ] 416 [July 5, 



segmental fringes and yellow anal liairs. Expanse 18 mill. Appala- 

 ehicola, Mr. Thaxter, No. 2782. 



The colors of this species are vivid, and the insect presents a cas- 

 ual resemblance to the yellow winged species of Annaphila. 



Mr. Thaxter has collected also of the present group the species 

 L. tuberculum, Prothymia rosalba, Spragueia fasciatella and apicella, 

 Thalpochares patrudis (Tarache patruelis Grote). 



Ophideres materna (Linn.). 



A single specimen taken by Mr. Thaxter at Appalachicola, March 

 24. The specimen agrees with Drury's figure (u, Plate xni, fig. 4), 

 as with Guenee's description (in, 113). The discovery of this 

 species in Florida is attended with unusual interest. The species is 

 common in Java and the East Indies, according to authors. M. 

 Guenee records an individual reared by Bescke at New Freiburg, 

 Brazil, without mention of the food-plant of the larva. Recent in- 

 vestigations by Kunckel (re-published in the " Popular Science 

 Monthly for June, 1876) have brought to light the peculiar structure 

 of the terebrant trunk in this genus, so rigid and peculiarly formed 

 at the extremity as to be able to pierce the rinds of oranges and suck 

 the juice. In the present specimen, so far as I can perceive under 

 the microscope without detaching the trunk, the end of the maxillsB 

 exhibits a conformation like that figured by Kimckel of Ophideres ful- 

 lonica. M. Guenee conj jturcs that the species has been accidentally 

 introduced into Brazil by commerce, and adds of the specimen ex- 

 amined by him received from Bescke: C'est la premiere qui, a ma 

 connaissance, ait ete trouvee en Amerique. The orange, upon Avhich 

 the moth of Ophideres is stated to feed, is Asiatic in origin, and it 

 would be of interest to ascertain that it has been followed to Amer- 

 ica by its parasitic insects. The attention of orange planters in 

 Florida is drawn to these statements in the hope that the complete 

 history of the species be discovered. It is probable that the appear- 

 ance of the fruit would be injured by the attacks of Ophideres, and 

 if the insect multiplies in Florida it will not long escape more general 

 notice. 



Phurys glans sp. nov. 



At first sight recalling Celiptera frustulum, but differing by the 

 shorter third palpal article, and agreeing with vinculum and lima in 

 this respect. Of the same uniform gray, with all the markings illeg- 

 ible except a rather narrow deep brown stripe, which runs obliquely 

 and nearly evenly from apices to internal margin at outer third. 



