170 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Abdomen boney -yellow. 



Metatliorax honey-j'cllow, vc\\\\ black transverse subbasal carina, and 



with two prominent white tubercles 10. transilis. 



Metathorax entirely honey -yellow 17. servilis. 



1. Hemiteles lascivus, n. sp. 



9. Black ; face, clypeus, palpi, orbits, checks, annulus on an- 

 tennae, collar, tegulfe, spot before, clot beneath, two short discal 

 lines on niesothorax, scutelliira, dot on postscutellum, spot be- 

 hind base of wings, oblique mark on side of pleura hooked be- 

 neath, spot on flanks of metathorax, two spots at tip covering 

 tubercles, coxae and trochanters, posterior tarsi, base of first ab- 

 dominal segment, apical margin of all the segments, broad on 

 second, narrow and subinterrupted on remainder, all white or 

 3'ellowish-white ; wings hyaline, apex faintly dusky; legs pale 

 honey-yellow, irregular mark on posterior coxjb and tips of all 

 the tarsi, black. Robust, opaque, finely' and densely sculptured; 

 metathorax short, broad, truncate behind, the tubei'cles longitu- 

 dinal, not prominent; legs robust; abdomen shining, ovate be- 

 yond first segment which is broadlj' dilated at apex; areolet 5- 

 angular, outer nervure hyaline. Length 3^ lines. 

 Orizaba. 



2. Hemiteles patruelis, n. sp. 



9. Black; face, mouth, orbits, cheeks, scape beneath, broad 

 annulus on flagcllum interj-upted beneath, collar, tegula*, line be- 

 fore, spot beneath, two short subtriangular discal lines on meso- 

 thorax, scutellum, spot or line on postscutellum, triangular space 

 behind base of wings, pleura except upper and anterior margins, 

 sometimes only a lateral spot, flanks of metathorax, two triangu- 

 lar spots covering tubercles, four anterior coxae and trochnnters, 

 most of posterior tarsi and broad apical margins of abdominal 

 segments, all white ; wings hyaline, iridescent, faintly dusk^^ at 

 apex ; legs pale honey-yellow, spot on posterior eoxa^, the four 

 anterior femora above, their tibiae and tarsi more or less, posterior 

 trochanters, extreme apex of their femora, and base, and apex of 

 their tarsi, blackish, posterior coxae within and annulus on base 

 of their tibiae whitish, and in one specimen the posterior coxae 

 are white with the base beneath and a lateral stripe black ; some- 

 times the basal segments of the abdomen have a reddish tinge 

 before the white bands. Opaque; mctathoracic tubercles very 



