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Psyche 6:289, 1891.

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THREE NEW PAMBOLIDS FROM THE UNITED STATES. BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, WASHINGTON, D. C.
No species of this interesting genus
is yet described from North America
and nothing is known of the habits of
the several described European species.
Two distinct species, captured by
myself in Florida while sweeping, and
known to me only in the male sex, may
be thus distinguished :-
Metanotum coarsely rugose.
Black : head yellowish.
A. americuna sp. n.
Metanotum distinctly areolated.
Black ; collar yellow ; basal two-
thirds of abdomen reddish.
A. minuta sp. n.
A. americma sp. n. f. Length, 3 mm.
Black, shining, with a short, sparse pube- scence ; head and collar, reddish-yellow ; basal three joints of antennae, tegulae, and legs, honey-yellow. Head transverse, rounded off behind the eyes, smooth, impunctured; eyes rounded, prominent. Mesonotum tri-
lobed, the middle lobe somewhat rugulose, carinated at sides posteriorly, the lateral lobes shagreened. Scutellum convex,
smooth, shining, with a profound crenate furrowat base. Pleurae rugose. Metathorax coarsely rugose, the angles produced into a long spine; tips of the spines yellowish; there is also a delicate carina extending from the base of each spine forward to the spin- cles. Wings hyaline, the stigma and ner- vures brownish-yellow, the costal edge black, the recurrent nervure interstitial with the transverse cubital. Abdomen oblong-oval, black, much depressed, highly polished, and composed of but three segments, the first with a deep channel along the sides, bounded by a carina above.
Hab.- Jacksonville, Florida.
Type in ~011'. Ashmead.
Described from a single specimen.
A. minuta s-p. n. $, Length 1.4 mm.
Black, shining; collar yellow; basal two- thirds of abdomen reddish, the basal half finely longitudinally striated ; rest of the abdomen highly polished. Antennae long,
slender, black, the pedicel and first flagellar joint alone yellowish. Thorax faintly sha- greened or punctate, the mesonotum trilobed, the middle lobe with a slight impression posteriorly just in front of the scutellum but without a carina at the sides. Scutellum smooth with a faintly crenated fovea at base. Pleurae finely rugose. Metathorax regularly areolated, the angles produced into long yellow spines, the surface of the areas, ex- cept the long middle, smooth and shining, the middle area transversely wrinkled. Legs honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma
and nervures pale yellow.
Hab. -Jacksonville, Florida.
Type in Coll. Ashmead.
P. bifasciatus sj. n. 8 9. Length $? 3
mm., ovip. 0.3 mm. ; f 2.6 mm. Black, sub- opaque, minutely shagreened ; metathorax finely rugose, and indistinctly areolated. Mesonotum without furrows. Scutellum
flat with a crenate furrow across the base. Wings hyaline with two transverse, fuscous bands. Antenna in 8 21-, in 2 22- jointed, pale yellowish-brown. Legs dark fuscous,



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almost black, the tarsi pale. Abdomen a
little longer than the head and thorax to- gether, longitudinally striate, the apical margins of segments 2, 3, and 4, apical half of 5, and the following segments smooth, polished; the second segment has also two transverse lines or impressions, the first dis- tinct situated a little beyond its basal third, the second indistinct.
Hab. - District of Columbia, Cali-
fornia, and Morgantown, W. Va.
Types in Coll. Ashmead and National
Museum.
My specimens were taken at large,
while those in the National Museum
were reared June 24, 1891, at Morgan-
town, W. Va., by Prof. A. D. Hop-
kins, from Anthaxia viridicornis ,
living in willow twigs.
NOTES ON CERURA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES BY HARRISON G. DYAR, BOSTON, MASS.
The species of Cerura have been so badly mixed up in Prof. Smith's new list, that I will give a catalogue of them, as follows : CERURA MULTISCRIPTA Riley.
18.75 -Riley, Trans. St. Louis acad. sci., iii, 241.
1890 -- Dyar, Psyche, v, 393.
Habitat -Missouri and Illinois to New
York.
CERURA SCITISCRIPTA Walker.
1865-Walk., Cat. lep. Brit. mus.,xxxii, 408. var. CANDIDA Lintner.
1877- Lintn., 30th rept. N. Y. State mus., 199%
1891 - Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 87. $r. var. Habitat- Georgia to Kansas.
CERURA CINEREA Walker.
1865 - Walk. Cat. lep. Brit. mus., xxxii, 407
1883 - Edwards and Elliot, Papilio, iii, 130.
1891 -- Dyar, Psyche, vi, 80.
var. CINEREOIDES Dyar.
1890 --Dyar, Can. ent., xxii, 253.
1891 --Dyar, Psyche, vi, 82;
Habitat - New York to Montana and Cal-
ifornia.
CERURA OCCIDENTALIS Lintner.
1877-Lintn., 30th rept. N. Y. State Mus., 194.
1881 ---French, Can. ent., xiii, 144.
Habitat - Pennsylvania to Canada and
Wisconsin.
CERURA MODESTA Hudson.
1891 -Hudson, Can. ent., xxiii, 197.
Habitat- Northern New York.
CERURA BOREALIS Boisduval.
1832-Boisd., Cuv. an, kingd., (Griffith). 1841 -Harris, Rept. ins. Mass., 306.
1864 - Packard, Proc. ent. soc. Phil., iii , 375-
1872-Lintner, 26th rept. N. Y. st. cab.
nat. hist., 151.
1877 - Lintner, 30th rept. N. Y. st. mus., 196.
1881 -French, Can. ent., xiii, 145.
1891 -- Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 85.
Habitat- Georgia and Missouri to Illi-
nois and New England states.
CERURA SCOLOPENDRINA Boisduval.
1869 - Boisd., Ldp. de la Cal., 86.
1891 -Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 186.
aquilonarts Lintner.
1877 -Lintn., 30th rept. N. Y. state mus., 197.
1891 - Thaxter, Can., ent., xxiii, 34.
1891 - Dyar, Can. ent., xxiii, 186,-pr. syn. Habitat- New York, Canada, Montana,
Oregon and California.*
*This is, doubtless, the species to which Butler re- ferred as C. bicusjis Bkh, in Ann. mag. n. h., viii, 317.



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