Prodenia phytolaccæ (Abbot & Smith, Vol. 2, 193, Pl. 97).

This species is sent me by Mr. Belfrage from Texas, under the number 706 (pink label). The insect has naked eyes, pellucid white and iridescent secondaries, the veins and external margin slightly-soiled. It cannot be referred to Xylomiges, the type of which genus, the European conspicillaris, has hairy eyes, as have all the species referred by me to Xylomiges in my “Check List” and elsewhere.

Hoplisus gracilis, n. sp.

♀. Length 10 mm. Black, clothed with an appressed brown pubescence as in Hoplisus phaleratus (Gorytes phaleratus Say) ; face with a very short silvery pile. Face, stripe between antennæ, anterior and posterior orbits, clypeus, labrum and mandibles (except the piceous tips), palpi, coxæ, trochanters and femora of anterior legs anteriorly, spot on intermediate coxæ, posterior margin of collar, a small and a large spot beneath anterior wings, broad bands on scutellum and postscutellum, large ovate spot on each side of metathorax (irregular and tinged with ferruginous within), broad band at apex of first segment of abdomen, sharply emarginate and bordered with ferruginous anteriorly, interrupted band at apex of second segment, small spot on each side of third segment and line on each side of second ventral segment, all pale yellow.

I have recently received from North Park, Colorado, two interesting specimens of Anthrax, one of which is remarkable for its neuration. They are of a new species of the A. halcyon group, and both apparently females.

EGG–Shaped like that of Diana and Cybele; conoidal, truncated, rounded at base, the sides well rounded ; depressed at summit ; marked vertically by about 18 vertical ribs, somewhat wavy, half extending from base to summit, the remainder ending irregularly at about three-fourths the distance from the base ; between each pair of ribs are equi-distant, transverse, slightly raised striæ. Duration of this stage about 25 days.