SMICEA. 79 



2. Smicra dimidiata. 



Conura dimidiata, Sichel, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. (4) v. p. 390 \ 

 Hah. Mexico, Orizaba 1 . 



3. Smicra pulchra. 



Smicra pulchra, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 94 1 ; Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 50 \ 

 Smicra transitiva, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 371. 



Hah. Cuba; Mexico 1 . 



4. Smicra quadridentata. 



B/afo-testacea ; ore, mesopleuris, maculis mesonoti cum scutello postice antennisque nigris ; femoribus posticis 



4-dentatis ; antennarum apice rufo, scapo testaceo ; alis fuscis, apice fere hyalinis. $ . 

 Long. 8 millim. 



Hah. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



The Head, thorax, and legs are covered with a short, sparse, pale, glistening pubes- 

 cence. The front is somewhat hollow in the centre; a blunt projecting ridge runs 

 from a little above the antennae to the clypeus, and on each side and above the latter 

 is a hollow space ; the lower part of the head is obscurely transversely striated ; the 

 upper part coarsely punctured, but not so strongly as the thorax. The space around 

 the outer ocelli and a broad band from the lower ocellus to the base of the antennae 

 are black, as is also the back of the head. Scape longish, rather narrow ; flagellum 

 thick, the joints rather closely pressed together. Thorax coarsely and uniformly 

 punctured all over; the scutellum projects behind, where it has, as usual, a broad 

 border, which projects on each side into two blunt teeth ; an obscure carina is in the 

 centre at the base. The metathorax has a moderate slope, the second and third rows 

 of fields are large ; in a line with the centre of the scutellum is a carina which divides 

 two large equal fields, and on each side of these is a longer one ; immediately below 

 the two square fields is a slightly larger pentagonal one, which has attached to it on 

 either side a small square one ; the other jftelds are larger than usual. The petiole 

 of the abdomen is about one third of the length of the posterior coxae, and about one 

 fourth of the length of the abdomen, which is ovoid, narrowed towards the apex ; the 

 sheath of the ovipositor is black, and hairy at the apex. The posterior femora have four 

 large, thick, slightly curved teeth, which reach beyond the middle of the tibiae ; they 

 are black at the apex. The following parts on the thorax are black — a large mark in 

 centre of mesonotum, longer than broad, a shorter and narrower line on either side of 

 this, a much narrower transverse one running at the base of scutellum from one tegula 

 to the other ; a large oval mark on the apical portion of scutellum, the mesopleura, and 

 mesosternum. Wing fuscous, the apex almost hyaline ; throughout there is a distinct 

 violet iridescence. 



