EPIMECIS.— -GLYPTA. 271 



E. fasciata, Bridle, from Brazil, is very like the present species, and may be a 

 variety of it. 



3. Epimecis mexicana. 



Lutea; antennis, capite (ore excepto) pedibus posticis abdominisque apice lsete, nigris; alis flavo-hyalinis, 



nigro fasciatis, stigmate flavo. $ . 

 Long. 12 millim. ; terebra 5 millim. 



Hab. Mexico {JBilimeJc). 



Differs from JE. tibialis in being smaller, and in the apex of the abdomen being more 

 widely, and in the hind legs being entirely, black. 



GLYPTA. 



Glypta, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. iii. p. 4. 



A well-marked genus of wide distribution. 



1. Glypta longula. 



Glypta longula ,■ Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 405 ( ? )\ 

 Hah. Mexico, Orizaba 1 [Sumichrast). 



2. Glypta rufomarginata. (Tab. XI. fig. 18, $ .) 



Nigra ; thorace rufo, ore, linea pronoti, tegulis, postscutello pedibusque, albis ; antennis nigris, subtus fuscis ; 



alis hyalinis, stigmate fusco. $ . 

 Long. 8 millim. ; terebra 6 millim. 



Hob. Mexico, Chapultepec [BilimeTc). 



Antennee scarcely so long as the body, moderately stout, the joints closely united 

 together. Mesonotal sutures not very distinct ; edge of the pronotum produced into a 

 tubercle in front. Pronotum edged above and beneath with white ; a blackish mark 

 dilated laterally (posteriorly) in the middle, the rest reddish ; mesothorax red, except 

 the sutures and the scutellar region which are black, and a large yellow mark on the 

 mesopleura; the sternum also inclining to yellow; metanotum black, except laterally, 

 with a transverse keel across just beyond the middle, and another immediately behind 

 the extreme apex. Abdomen closely punctured ; the oblique lines broad and moderately 

 deep; the edges of the segments raised; the ventral surface and the edges of the 

 segments (the third and fourth broadly) reddish. Ovipositor black, pilose, longer 

 than the abdomen. The hind coxse incline to fulvous ; the extreme apices of the tibiae, 

 and the tarsal joints narrowly at the apex, black. 



3. Glypta albopicta. 



Glypta albopicta, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 405 (<$)\ 

 Hab. Mexico, Orizaba 1 {Sumichrast). 



