PANISCUS. * 303 



Hab. North America, United States 1 3 . — Mexico, Orizaba, Cordova (Sumichrast 4 ) ; 

 Guatemala, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,000 feet, Capetillo, San Geronimo, Sinanja, 

 Senahu (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Eica, Irazu, Cache (Rogers); 

 Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet.— South 

 America 2 ; West Indies 2 . 



A common and widely distributed species. P. geminatus varies greatly in size ; the 

 fiagellum of the antennae varies in colour from black to rufous ; the amount of yellow 

 on the head varies also, and the apical segments of the abdomen are sometimes 

 fuscous. 



2. Paniscus tinctipennis. 



Fuscus, testaceo variegatus ; capite flavo ; pedibus pallide fcestaceis, coxis posterioribus femoribusque posticis 



fuscis ; alis fumatis, stigmate testaceo. $ . 

 Long. 15 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 



Antennae a little longer than the body, microscopically pilose ; the fiagellum dark 

 fuscous, the scape testaceous. Head yellow, the occiput dark fuscous; the ocellar 

 region black ; the face obscurely punctured, projecting in the middle ; mandibles testa- 

 ceous, the tips black ; palpi yellow. Thorax dark fuscous ; a line on the pronotum, 

 the sutures of the mesonotum, a mark below the tegulae, the sides of the scutellum, and 

 the lower part of the metapleura, pale testaceous. Metathorax closely transversely 

 striated. Abdomen fuscous, the base of the first three segments and their ventral 

 surface pale testaceous. Wings with a fuscous tinge ; areolet minute, not oblique ; the 

 recurrent nervure interstitial. 



Differs from P. geminatus in the fuscous colour of the body, in the wings having a 

 decided smoky tinge, in the expansions on each side of the metathorax being much 

 more distinct, in the abdomen being broader and not so compressed, and in the petiole 

 being thicker and shorter compared to the second segment. 



3. Paniscus melanostigma. 



Bufo-testaceus, mesonoto nigro ; capite flavo ; flagello antennarum fusco ; alis hyalinis, stigmate nigro. $ . 

 Long. 15 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Face closely punctured ; metathorax closely transversely striated. Areolet moderately 

 large, straight, the recurrent nervure received a little beyond the middle ; there is no 

 branch on the cubital nervure. 



Easily known from its allies by the black stigma and nervures. The petiole is longer 

 compared to the second segment (the relative length of the two being as in P. geminatus) 

 than in P. tinctipennis. 



