1. Oligotoma Cubana, n. sp.

Olyntha? spec. larva. Hag. Synops. Neur. N. Amer., p. 7.

Olyntha Cubana, larva, imago, Hag. Psoc. Embid. Synops. Verh. Wien. Z. B. Gesell. 1866, p. 221, 223 (no description).

Olyntha Cubana, McLachl. Linn. Soc. Jour. Zool., vol. xiii., p. 381.

Male, dry. Length of body about 8 mill.; exp. of wings about 12 mill. Head light brown, little longer than broad, narrowed behind the eyes, convex above, without any impression, rounded at the sides, cut straight near prothorax; labrum large, paler, rounded; antennæ pale brown (only 13 joints present); 1st large, cylindrical; 2nd very short, as long as broad; 3rd as long as 1st, thinner, somewhat thicker at tip; all following similar but a little shorter; antennæ and head densely clothed with very pale hairs; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, pale brown, apical joint long, conical; labial palpi small; tip of mandibles black.

On 13th Sept., 1884, I received from Mr. James Fletcher 22 larvæ in hibernation, part of a lot sent him shortly before by Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, of Victoria, V. I. The larvæ, on exposure to the light, moved about, but refused to eat Chelone glabra. I placed them in cellar, and in October forwarded to Clifton Springs, N. Y., with larvæ of other species, to go in the “cooler.” On 7th March, I received them again, ancl found about one half to be alive. These I put in the ice house till I could get leaves of the food-plant. In last days of April they were brought to the house and given Chelone, the living larvæ now being reduced to six. On the third day, I noticed that the leaves had been eaten, and three or four days later the larvæ looked healthy and had recovered the length and diameter which they had on 13th Sept., larvæ always shrinking much during hibernation.