SELANDEIA. 19 



5. Selandria leucopoda. 



Nigra, nitida; tegulis, pronoti limbo, macula laterali, mesopleuris pedibusque albido-stramineis, coxis basi 



tarsisque nigris ; alis fere fuscis, eosta et stigmate nigris. $ . 

 Long. 6| millim. 



Hah. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



The antennae are not much shorter than the head and thorax, thickened in the 

 middle, attenuated at the apex, two basal joints comparatively large, third about one 

 fourth longer than the fourth ; the last short, very conical and narrow. The transverse 

 radial nervure is received close to the apical third of the third cubital cellule, and has 

 a bulla ; the first transverse cubital nervure is pellucid ; the third cubital cellule is a 

 very little longer and wider than the second ; the second transverse cubital nervure 

 has a faint bulla, from which issues a double spurious vein to near the apex of the 

 wing ; the transverse median nervure is received in apical third of cellule. The 

 accessory nervure in hind wing is interstitial. Abdomen slightly carinated ; the apices 

 of the segments beneath are broadly white ; the clypeus is truncated at the apex. The 

 frontal area is not very clearly denned ; there is a hollow below the ocelli, and at; the 

 end of this hollow is a wider, deeper, but shorter one. The three frontal fovea? are 

 large, moderately deep, and united. The head scarcely projects behind the eyes; the 

 claws are simple. 



6. Selandria Crassa. (Tab. II. figg. 5, ? ; 5 a, head ; 5 b, antenna ; 5 c, tarsus.) 



Nigra, ore, pronoto, mesonoti lateribus, mesopleuris tegulisque albo-testaceis ; pedibus flavo-albidis, tarsis 



nigris ; alis fumatis, costa et stigmate nigris, cellula eubitali tertia fere breviore quam secunda. 

 Long. 6 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion). 



The antennae are nearly as long as the abdomen, thickened in the middle, attenuated 

 towards the apex, scape pale testaceous, third joint longer than the fourth. 

 Sutures on vertex narrow but deep. Frontal area raised, the bounding ridges indistinct, 

 a flat suture round the ocellus. Lateral antennal fovea round, deep ; central wider 

 than long, shallow. Clypeus truncated ; the second cellule is of almost exactly the same 

 length as third ; the transverse radial nervure is received a good piece beyond the 

 middle of the cellule, the transverse median near the apical third ; there is a homy 

 point in the second cubital cellule. The mesopleurae are black behind, as also the 

 breast ; the middle lobe of mesonotum is black, except the apex ; the cenchri are large. 

 The face is covered with long white hair. 



A male Selandria from El Tumbador is probably the male of this insect ; but the 

 mesonotum, pronotum, and mesopleura, where these parts in the female are pale 

 testaceous, are in it crimson, and the scutellum is black. The crimson tint is perhaps 

 owing to discoloration by the action of cyanide of potassium. 



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