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stiff hairs, the rest pilose. The centre of the fore wings is broadly fuscous, and this 

 fuscous band bifurcates beyond the cubitus into two, both of which touch the edge of 

 the wing, one at either side. Before the point where the band splits the wing is white. 



2. Lelaps ferrilginea. (Tab. VI. fig. 7, $ ; 7«, antenna.) 



Ferruginea ; antennanim articulis 7°-9 m nigris, coxis anticis et posticis genubusque albidis, tarsis pallidas ; alis 



fumatis, albo maculatis. 

 Long. 7 minim. 



Hal. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet {Champion). . 



Antennae as long as the fore wings, becoming gradually thicker towards the apex, 

 shortly and closely pilose ; second joint about one third of the length of third, which 

 is a little longer than the fourth and fifth together ; the fifth is a little shorter than 

 the fourth; sixth shorter than fifth, and longer than seventh; seventh and eighth 

 subequal ; ninth shorter than eighth and longer than tenth, which is as long as the 

 eleventh ; twelfth shorter than the preceding joint, from which it can scarcely be distin- 

 guished, so closely are they united. Head rugosely striated ; face below the antenna? 

 smooth, shining, very slightly projecting. Thorax above rugose, transversely striated 

 before the wings, longitudinally striated behind them. Pleurae beneath and sternum 

 striated. Metanotum coarsely reticulated. Behind the border of the scutellum is a 

 waved carina enclosing a reticulated space ; behind this again is a straight carina, which 

 encloses a smooth space ; behind this again is a curved raised carina, which projects in 

 the centre, and from this runs a carina down the middle of the metanotum to the apex ; 

 a short carina runs to the second transverse carina, dividing the field into two parts. 

 Petiole short, thick, ringed in the centre, behind the ring reticulated, before it smooth, 

 shining. Abdomen smooth, shining, blackish in the middle, the apex acute ; terebra 

 very shortly projecting. The face has a whitish pubescence, and on the vertex are some 

 long, stiff, black hairs ; there are also some long, stiff, black hairs on the pronotum, and 

 in front of the wings on the mesonotum, and one or two on the third, fourth, and fifth 

 abdominal segments. The hind coxae are striated behind ; the four anterior trochanters 

 are blackish ; the anterior femora (especially) and the tibiae are suffused with black ; 

 the tibiae and tarsi are closely pilose. The bases of the fore wings are fuscous ; at the 

 base of the ulna is a narrow fuscous cloud ; behind the cubitus they are fuscous, but 

 between this and the above-mentioned narrow cloud they are white, the wide part being 

 much wider at the costa than at the middle ; in front of the cubitus is a broad white 

 band, succeeded by a faint fuscous cloud, which extends to the apex ; the posterior 

 wings are hyaline ; the base of the costa bears a few stiff hairs. 



3. Lelaps tibialis. 



Sordide ferruginea; antennarum apice, coxis anticis et posticis abdominisque apice albidis j tarsis pallidis, 



trochanteribus anterioribus et tibiarum posticarum dimidio apicali nigris ; alis fuscis. albo maculatis. 

 Long. 4 millim. 



