326 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the same adjoining the tegulae and a line on anterior margin of dorsulum 

 orange colour. The rest of the dorsum with inconspicuous black hairs. 

 Posterior border of scutellum with a sharp edge, only slightly produced 

 medially, the lateral teeth short and blunt. The pleura covered with 

 pubescence similar to that on cheeks, only so thick as to obscure 

 the tegument on the anterior and posterior borders of the mesopleura, 

 which are deeply punctured and dullish ; the legs covered with a 

 white pubescence, that on the tibiae and tarsi within golden. Wings 

 darkened brownish, especially near the margins, nervures and stigma 

 dark brown. First adominal segment with a groove on the anterior edge 

 formed by the sharp edge and the almost ridge curve in back of the edge, 

 with distinct, small, separated punctures ; all of abdomen polished, the 

 apical segment less than one and a half times as long as broad at base, 

 tapering to a blunt point at apex, slightly pinched on the sides at 

 the middle, a median longitudinal raised line on posterior half, an 

 impunctate line on anterior half; the punctuation on the narrow part 

 of apical segment indistinct, that on the broader half distinct, fine, 

 the punctures separated ; the rest of the segments with punctures only 

 on the anterior and posterior margins ; all the segments, except the apical 

 one, with a narrow apical band of yellowish appressed pubescence, a line 

 of appressed pubescence on each side of apical dorsal segment ; the 

 ventral segments with apical bands. 



Black, mandibles, tegulre, legs, basal segment and ventral segment 

 dark ferruginous. 



<$ . Length, 8.5 mm. Essentially the same as the ? i n sculpture 

 and coloration, with the usual exception in structural characters incident 

 to this sex ; the face uniformly covered with thick appressed pubescence ; 

 the lateral scutellar spines more produced ; apical dorsal segment less 

 than one and a half times as long as broad, at apex drawn out into 

 four sharp spines, the emargination not so deep, more semicircular, 

 the width from spine to spine a little more than half the width of the 

 apical segment at base ; the upper spines a little shorter than the lower 

 ones, one spine on each side long and narrow, the broad median furrow 

 extending to within a short distance of the base of the apical segment. 



Types : Coll. Am. Ent. Society. Type locality, Port Antonio ( 9 ), 

 Jamaica (W. J. Fox). 



The o* is from Kingston, Jamaica. Both specimens are part of a 

 collection made in Jamaica during April, 1891, by Mr. C. W. Johnson 

 and Mr. W. J. Fox. ' 



