132 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 



1. Trogus latipennis, n. sp. 



5. Blue-black, with a steel-blue reflection; head, pro- and 

 mesothorax, pleura, and anterior legs, 3'ellowish-red ; vertex, an- 

 tenna? and broad stripe over teguhv, black; Avings violaceous- 

 black. Densely punctured, subpubescent; antennte rather short, 

 slender; scutellum convex; Avings very broad, ample, areolet 

 large, triangular ; abdomen long, segments constricted at base, 

 with a short basal longitudinal impressed line on each side, and 

 an obtuse longitudinal ridge on disk of second and followino- seg- 

 ments. Length 9|- lines. 



Orizaba. (Sumichrast, No. 62.) A beautiful species. 



2. Trogus blandita, n. sp. 



Z . Deep black, opaque, sides of thorax, scutellum, legs, and 

 basal and apical segments of abdomen polished ; anterior orbits, 

 slightly dilated on the face and interrupted opposite insertion of 

 antennre, a narrow line on posterior orbits, a spot on middle of 

 face indented above, transverse line on cl3qDeus and spot on mandi- 

 bles, 3'ellowish-white ; antenna? long, slender, serrate, graduall}^ 

 attenuated to apex which is ver}^ slender, brown-black, scape 

 polished, black; thorax immaculate, closely punctured, scutellum 

 obtusely conical, Avith scattered punctures; metathorax shaped 

 much as in inchjta, with the elevated lines more sharply defined, 

 and the surface more deeply punctured, the pleura has a slight 

 opaline reflection ; wings dusky h3'aline, the anterior pair with 

 two fuliginous, brilliant violet bands, one occupjang the entire 

 apical third and the other about half the breadth of the first, 

 placed across the middle, apical margin brassy, middle of stigma 

 sub-h3'aiine, areolet small, sub-triangular, petiolatcd, posterior 

 wings dusk3' at apex ; legs shining black, anterior cox.o? in front, 

 their femora and tibioe in front, and the intermediate tibiae before, 

 soiled white ; posterior tarsi longer than tibia% white; apical joint 

 and claws black ; posterior coxfe dilated above into an obtuse 

 tubercle, their basal trochanters flat and dilated, as in inchjta ; 

 abdomen flattened, first segment shining, grooved medialh', and 

 with large scattered punctures, the four following segments opaque, 

 longitudinall3' aciculatcd dorsall3', den.sel3' and deepl3' punctured 

 laterall3', the incisures deep, the second segment above with a 

 small lateral sub-apical lunate white mark ; two apical segments 

 smooth and shining, with a fiiint opaline iridescence. Length t 

 lines. 



