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Volume 27, Number 2
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(two $ $ ); 5 to 9 Nov. 1969 (two & S, one $ ); 26 Oct. 1970 (one & ); 18 Nov. 1971 (two $ $ ). Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo Co., Texas, 23 Oct. 1970 (one & ); 15 & 16 Feb. 1971 (three $ $, one 9 ), 13 to 16 Nov. 1971 (four $ S, ten 9 9 ); 7 April 1972 (five S $, eight 9 9). Paratypes will be deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, in the American Museum of Natural History and in the British Museum (Natural History).
The new species is quite close to Glenoides texanaria, the only other taxon in the genus; the pattern of maculation is nearly the same, but the transverse lines of texanaria are much better defined and its background is nearly clean of scattered brown scales and dark blotches; G. texanaria is appreciably larger; the unmistakable differences between the two species are however in the genitalia: the vesica of the male texanaria is unarmed and the postvaginal plate of its female presents an elongated sclerotization which does not exist in G. lenticuligera.
Acknowledgments
It is a pleasure to acknowledge with thanks the generous help which I received from Drs. D. C. Ferguson of the Entomology Research Division, U.S.D.A. and F. H. Rindge of the American Museum of Natural History in preparing this paper. I am also grateful to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and to the Park and Wildlife Department (Austin, Texas) for the authorization that they gave me to set traps in the territories under their jurisdiction.
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McDunnough, J. 1920. Studies in North American Cleorini (Geometridae). Can. Dept. Agric. Bull. 18 (p. 38).
MIDGES (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) SUCKING BLOOD OF CATERPILLARS
With reference to Willis W. Wirth's note under this heading (1972, J. Lepid. Soc. 26: 65), I have a record of a larva of Acherontia atropos L. (Sphingidae) bearing seven of these small midges. The larva was found in Kampala in July 1950, and was carried by car for over a mile clinging to a twig without disturbing the midges. My notes state that the larva appeared to suffer no inconvenience and that there was no exudation of fluid from the punctures, which were invisible under a hand lens, when the midges were removed.
D. G. Sevastopulo, F.R.E.S., P.O. Box 95026, Mombasa, Kenya.