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three subquadrate, crimson spots, more or less confluent. In the 

 cell are two white spots, the outer continued on to the costa, but 

 interrupted by the vein. A marginal and a transverse row of 

 white spots, the latter from costa beyond cell to middle of outer 

 margin composed of five spots the last small. The marginal row 

 starts on costa before apex and has four intervenular spots, each 

 nearer the outer margin than the last, and two more spots below, 

 the last above the submedian vein, the one before it large and 

 round. A small spot at base of the wing above submedian vein. 

 The secondaries have a marginal row of nine white spots, the 

 first at the apex, the fourth and the ninth at basal angle, small. 

 Below as above, but the blue reflection on primaries is more ex- 

 tensive. Legs marked and banded with white. 



This Zygaenid was taken abundantly towards evening flying 

 with Syntomeida epilais Walk. , than which it was much more 

 abundant. 



The flora of the strip of land between Lake Worth and the 

 ocean, as well as that between Indian River and the ocean par- 

 takes of a decidedly subtropical character, and many Cuban spe- 

 cies find their homes here, of which the occurrence of the above- 

 mentioned species is an example. 



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DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



BY WILLIAM J. FOX. 



Hoplisus foveolata n. sp. 



9 . Black, shining; head sparsely punctured, hardly as wide 

 as the thorax; clypeus, labrum, basal half of mandibles, scape, first 

 six joints of flagellum, thorax, spots on posterior tarsal joints 

 near apex, and basal segment of abdomen, except ring at apical 

 margin, dark reddish brown; clypeus covered with silvery pu- 

 bescence in certain lights, with long golden hairs; labrum with 

 a fringe of golden hairs on anterior margin; face with a distinct 

 furrow extending from the lower ocellus to the middle of the 

 face; metathorax feebly punctate, covered with pale brownish 

 pubescence, a deep longitudinal furrow extending from base to 

 apex, interrupted at tip of enclosed triangular space by a deep 

 fovea, the oblique lateral furrows enclosing the triangular space 

 foveolate; wings fuliginous-brown, iridescent; second recurrent 



