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T. solus. — ? . n. sp. Sordid yellow, punctured, immaculate, eyes 

 dark brown, antenna black, abdomen lemon-yellow, ovipositor darker, 

 tip of abdomen brown ; tegmina at the interior angle coriaceous, a little 

 darker, veins yellow ; wings with three apical areas. 



Length, 4 mm.; breadth, i^ mm. 



Habitat — Death Valley, Calif. 



Described from many species in the National Museum. 



Subfamily Darnin.^, Stal. 



Stictopelta arizona, n. sp. — ? . Yellow, lateral margins white. 

 Head smooth, yellow, with a brown, transverse band just below the eyes, 

 a darker spot near the eyes. Prothorax yellow, with a percurrent, 

 longitudinal, median, impressed line ; base narrowly brown, at the middle 



of the base a white line, thus: . ' ., the point resting at the base, the 



line becoming a band which extends around the lateral angles, along 

 the inferior borders, ending just before the apex, which is brown: densely 

 punctured; on each side of the base, under the curvature of the brace- 

 shaped line, is a scar which is white in the centre with a dark brown rmg. 

 Tegmina nearly covered, the veins in the basal half nearly black, lighter 

 towards apex. Below yellow ; ovipositor fuscous. 



Length, 9 mm.; width, 4 mm. 



Habitat — Arizona. From Prof. Riley. 



This is x\t2,x precox, Burm. Type in National Museum. 



Subfamily Smiliin^, Stal. 



Carynota vera, n. sp.— $ . Reddish, sprinkled with yellow ; punc- 

 tured ; smallest member of the genus, closely resembling in shape various 

 species of Stictopelta. 



Head broad, short, very obtusely triangular, rough, yellowish-red, 

 with three yellow dots arranged in a triangle, the apex at the base of the 

 head, the other two containing the ocelli, which are much nearer to each 

 other than to the eyes ; a dark brown curved band across the lower part 

 of the face ; eyes prominent, dark. Prothorax less elevated than other 

 Cary?iotce, convex in front, rising in a curve over lateral angles, extending 

 posteriorly to the apex without any depressions nor becoming flattened ; 

 an impression, originating from behind the lateral angles at the inferior 

 borders, on each side, extends backward and upward, meeting on the 

 dorsum at the middle of the posterior process directly across the median 

 carina and not at an angle ; the median carina is a smooth line, per- 



