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columns, so that there is nothing to show that it was written hy Mr. Stelle beyond his 
subsequent statement. Moreover, the article in question does not contain a " recom- 
mendation" of the use of Paris green, but simply a statement that it was being exper- 
imented with at that time. No other similar article was published at that time in the 
agricultural columns, or in any other part of the Mobile Register. 
Note 58 (p. 350). Anomis texana, n. sp. — Average expanse 35 mm . Posterior bor- 
ders of primaries not quite so angulated as in erosa, but intermediate between this 
species and xylina. Geueral color of primaries fulvous-gray, ranging from pale fulv- 
ous-gray to deep vinous-brown. The ordinary lines are quite well marked, though 
variable iu intensity, and of a darker brown, faintly relieved by pale cinereous. In 
the commonest specimens there is a dusky patch in the basal region, and the basal 
line runs in three distinct Undulations somewhat obliquely across the basal third of 
wing. The median line runs from about the middle, or a little outside the middle, of 
the inner border, either almost straight or outwardly obliquing, and then with a sud- 
den inward notch till it reaches the median vein ; it then runs along vein 2 to a little 
beyond the reniform spot, and thence in a spreading, W-shaped line *° costa, which it 
reaches about the outer third by a more or less decided inward curve. The posterior 
line begins at the anal angle and runs to vein 2, so as to make a more or less distinct 
continuation of the median line, and then forks in an irregular, undulating manner to 
the costa, running parallel with the posterior border. The orbicular consists of an 
extremely minute white speck upon a slightly deeper shade; the reniform is large 
and well defined, and either much darker than the brown color or pure white with a 
faint line of a darker color near the inuer border. Head and thorax partake of the 
general color of primaries, as also palpi and antennae above. Secondaries and abdo- 
men above rather dull ashy- brown. Under surfaces of primaries dull grayish, slightly 
nacreous, with the borders pale buff. Along the costa this pale region is suffused 
with lilaceous, and along the posterior border it is limited by the transverse posterior 
line, and has a dark brown shade running from the apex to the angle in the middle of 
posterior border. The median line, in its costal portion, is generally marked by a 
somewhat §- 9 liaped dark line, well relieved posteriorly by the buff color. 
Under surfaces of secondaries pulverulent-lilaceous, with pale buff shade on the 
inner third, and with a discal spot and two well-marked transverse, slightly undulate, 
lines on the outer third and parallel with the posterior border. Described from 5 $ 's, 
6 $'s. 
Of course it is impossible to decide, from Hiibner's description, just what Anomis 
exacta is, but a careful study of his figures shows it to be a smaller species and much 
more ferruginous, with a paler reniform, and the lines somewhat differently arranged ; 
also with the primaries less angular. 
Note 59 (p. 353). Drasteria erechtea. Egg. — Nearly globular inform, slightly 
flattened at point of attachment. Apex with roundish facets; sides rather coarsely 
longitudinally ribbed. The alternate ribs rather shorter than Mie others, as in the 
egg of Aletia. General color grayish-green, with irregular grayish-brown markings; 
the facetted apex always grayish-brown. 
Fwpa.— About 18 mm (three-fourths of an inch) iu length. Head, thorax aud appen- 
dages dark brown, abdomen light brown; the incisures between the joints deep, and 
of a yellowish-brown color. Whole surface of the body somewhat pruiuose. Tip of 
the body bluntly rounded and furnished with eight slender and moderately long 
booklets. 
Note (50 (p. 358). — This description is as follows: 
"The insect I will call Phalaena zea (corn-moth) until it is more correctly classified. 
It is of a pale yellow or shining ash color— length of body and wings one and one- 
eighth of an inch, the wings expand two inches horizontal, the upper wings covering 
the lower; below the center and near 1 lie bonier of the upper wings, are two dark 
spots; there an; some two or three indistinct ones on each upper wing, end of the 
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