SMICEA. 83 



B. Femoral teeth small, minute, more than 8 in number. 

 1. Body reddish, scarlet, or orange. (Species 11-17.) 



11. Smicra coccinata. 



Smicra coccinata, Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 48. 30 l . 

 Hab. Mexico 1 . 



This species is nearly related to S. nigromaculata, but is sufficiently distinguished 

 from it by the thorax being transversely striated, by having only two broad black marks 

 on front of mesonotum, and the head yellowish. 



12. Smicra nigromaculata. (Tab. IV. figg. 15, $ ; 15 a, maxilla ; 15 b, poste- 

 rior leg.) 



Ferruginea ; antennis, vertice, maculis mesonoti, coxis posticis supra tibiarumque posticarum basi nigris ; femo- 



ribus posticis 13-dentatis ; alis fuscis. <$ . 

 Long, fere 8 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Head, thorax, and legs covered with a long fuscous pubescence ; face transversely 

 striated, the striae being, however, not very clearly denned ; the upper part of the head 

 is coarsely rugose ; a sharp keel runs from the antennae down the face to the clypeus ; 

 vertex depressed. Antennae stout, somewhat compressed, and longer than the thorax ; 

 scape hollow on the underside, from the middle to the apex, in the centre ; the face is 

 pale testaceous in colour ; the middle of the head above, from the ocelli to the base of 

 the antennae, black. The thorax forms an ovoid mass, much longer, broader, and 

 higher than the abdomen ; it is coarsely punctured. The scutellum is not much raised 

 above the mesonotum ; its apical margin has a broad border, and it does not project 

 much over the metanotum, which is semiperpendicular. Close to the base of the 

 scutellum, and in the centre, is a small round hollow, and from this runs an ill-defined 

 furrow to the apex, where it projects into the border, which also projects a little. The 

 metathorax ends on each side in a large, stout, blunt spine ; metanotum reticulated. 



The petiole is scarcely half the length of the long posterior coxae, and about two thirds 

 of the length of the abdomen. There are thirteen teeth on the femora ; those at the 

 base are small, but they become larger and more widely separated towards the apex. 



The following parts are black : — a small round mark on each side of the pronotum ; 

 a large, somewhat triangular, mark on the mesonotum, with a red mark in its centre; 

 there is a longitudinal narrower line on each side of this, which becomes united by a 

 thin transverse line at the base of the scutellum, and this line again is united to the 

 large central mark by a short longitudinal line ; a transverse line at the base of the 

 metanotum, and from the centre of this projects a short longitudinal line ; a spot at base 

 of the scutellum, the space behind the metathoracic spine, the metasternum, an oblique 

 line on the mesopleura, mesosternum, the greater part of the posterior coxae above, and 



mm 2 



