212 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



N. Carolinus is fairly common in Temagami District, its high pitched 

 trill being often heard among the boulders along the rocky shores of the 

 lakes. On densely-wooded islands this species is the only representative 

 of its order, and is confined to the shores. It also frequents low pastures, 

 mossy bogs and other wet places. 



A NEW STRATIOMVID FROM TEXAS. 



BY D. W. COQUILLETT, WASHINGTON, I). C. 



Hermetia ffunttri, n. sp. — Male : A robust species with glabrous 

 eyes and tricolorous abdomen (black, brown and yellow), its pubescence 

 short, sparse and inconspicuous. Head yellow, front and face with a 

 median black stripe, that of the front branching below and prolonged upon 

 the face ; antennae and mouth-parts yellow, the last annulus and the 

 lamella of the former black. Thorax yellow, three broad stripes on the 

 mesonotum (the median one not extending behind the suture, the lateral 

 ones throwing off a spur along the suture to the lateral margin), a narrow one 

 on middle of pleura, greatly dilated anteriorly, the breast and middle of 

 metanotum black. Scutellutn black, the margin yellow. Abdomen on 

 the first segment yellow, margined with black ; the three following seg- 

 ments yellow, the middle of the base narrowly black, which colour is 

 greatly extended toward the lateral margin, without reaching the latter ; 

 the black base is followed by a brown spot, which is greatly narrowed 

 posteriorly, and reaches the hind margin of the segment ; fifth segment 

 yellow, the narrow base and three stripes issuing from it and nearly 

 crossing the segment, black ; of the latter the median stripe is very broad, 

 the lateral ones narrow and extending just inside of the lateral margin. 

 Legs brown. Wings smoky black, a yellowish streak in front of the 

 middle and extending from base of wing to apex of discal cell, stigma a 

 clearer yellow ; contact of the discal with the fifth posterior cell ususually 

 short, almost punctiform. Length, 15 mm. 



Female : Same as the male, except that the lower half of the front and 

 the face are wholly yellow, the ground colour of the scutellum is brown, 

 and the fifth segment of the abdomen, instead of having the median black 

 stripe, has a much wider brown one, equalling about half the width of the 

 segment. Length, 17 mm. 



Hondo and Cotulla, Texas. Four males and three females bred from 

 cactus at the boll-weevil laboratory, in charge of Mr. W. D. Hunter, for 

 whom this fine species is named. 



Type No. 12323, U. S. National Museum. 



July, 1909 



