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GRAPE. LEAVES. 
Bonnetii, has hitherto been known. We have in the state of New-York an 
insect of this kind which may frequently be met with upon grass and on wil¬ 
lows in lowland meadows, from the beginning of August till the end of the 
season. I have hitherto supposed this to be the Bonnetii; but now, when I 
come to compare a number of specimens with Mr. Kirby’s description, it be¬ 
comes plain to me that this is a distinct species, and I therefore name it in 
honor of the distinguished British entomologist who has furnished to the Lin¬ 
eman Transactions a valuable paper upon some of the insects of this group. In 
all the species of Anotia several oblique voinlets of a blood red color appear 
along the outer sides of the wing covers towards their tips; but our New-York 
species difters from the Bonnetti, in that the wing covers have no tint of yel¬ 
low, and none of their veinlets are black. The veins and veinlcts are pallid, 
and for the most part are broadly margined with pale brown, which color also 
forms an irregular band before and another behind the middle, leaving large 
whitish hyaline spots in the intervals. The rib vein commonly shows three 
or four blackish alternations forward of its middle, and there is also a short 
black streak upon the middle of the inner margin. The wings are whitish 
hyaline with a blue iridescence, and their veins are slender and whitish with 
the veinlet at the apex of the outer discoidal cell robust, black, and slightly 
margined with brown. The thorax is pale yellow, smooth and shining, with 
three elevated white longitudinal lines. Length 0.15 to tip of the wings 0.26; 
width 0.45. 
Two other species of this genus arc known to me, the distinctive marks of 
which may here be stated. They are the same size with the preceding. 
112 . Anotia Burnetii is much nearer related to A. Bonneti i, the three vein- 
lets in the disk of its wing covers being blackish, but it is readily known from 
the other three species by a black stripe above along the middle of the three 
first segments of its abdomen. It is white, its wing covers milky white and 
subhyaline, with faint clouds of a more dusky tinge forming about three imper¬ 
fect bands. A single specimen was captured by Albert Gallatin Burnet, upon 
ash bushes beside Henderson river in Illinois. The insects of this genus hence 
appear to inhabit low humid situations, whilst those of the genus Otiocerus, 
according to my observations, all occur upon bushes growing in dry uplands. 
113 . Anotia Itolertsonii is very similar to the Burnetii, appearing to differ 
only in having the tips of its antennso and its feet blackish or dusky and the 
back of its abdomen white without any blackish discoloration. Two speci¬ 
mens sent mo from west of Arkansas, by W. S. Robertson. 
I here subjoin a short account of two other singular insects pertaining to 
this family, as I have for several years been sending specimens of them abroad 
with merely the name by which they are ticketed in my private collection 
appended to them. They are most nearly related to the Caliscelis Bonelli of 
Latreille, an Italian species very rare in collections, for a specimen of which I 
am indebted to Dr. Signoretof Paris. This insect is commonly made the type 
°f a distinct tribe or sub-family by authors, it differs so prominently from all 
>ts kindred. Twenty years ago an insect possessing similar distinctive char- 
