THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 109 



D. Head between the antennae wholly black . . quadrimaculatus, Ryder. 



I)D. Head between the antennas black with 



two white spots sexmaculatus, Harvey. 



BB. FurcLila with a row of long bristles on both sides of the denies, 

 fan like spinatus, MacG. 



AA. Abdomen with a dorsal spine floridana, MacG. 



Smynthurus mi/iutus, sp. nov. — Black and yellow ; head yellow, 

 except behind and the eye spots, which are black, black extending around 

 on the side of the face below the eye spots ; eye spot narrowly encircled 

 with yellow ; on each side below the eye spot, three clear spots arranged 

 in a transverse line ; a black speck, ocellus-like, on the vertex between 

 the antennae ; antennae reaching beyond the apex of the thorax ; basal 

 segment black, globular, one-half the length of the second ; second seg- 

 ment subequal to the third, yellow, petiolate at base, naked ; third seg- 

 ment about one-half the length of the fourth, enlarged at middle, yellow, 

 with a few scattered hairs ; fourth segment yellow, blunt at tip, moderately 

 hairy, not ringed ; thorax black, except a small part of the sternum, which 

 is yellow ; legs short, stout, yellow ; claws short, outer claw about as long 

 as the tibia is broad, sinuate beneath, with a single tooth, inner claw two- 

 thirds the length of outer, broad, stout, with a single tooth above ; three 

 tenant hairs present ; abdomen black, except a yellow spot on the under- 

 side of the anal tubercle, naked, except a few bristles on anal tubercle ; 

 furcula slender, slightly hairy beneath ; manubrium reaching the middle of 

 the anal tubercle ; dentes subequal in length to the manubrium ; muc- 

 rones one-third the length of dentes, simple, pointed, with a slight hook at 

 apex, with a high power appearing very finely serrate. Length, i mm. 



Habitat : Ithaca, New York. 



Collected by Mr. R. H. Pettit under pieces of wood in a plant jar in 

 the University Insectary. 



FaPIRIID/E.* 



Papirius piapurescens, sp. nov. — Blackish purple ; head between the 

 antennas washed with yellowish, second segment of the antennae (remain- 

 der wanting) and the claws white or transparent ; the remainder of the 

 body, including the entire furcula, blackish purple ; basal article of the 

 antennas very short, one-third the length of the second ; legs long, slender, 



*Schott adds a single species, Papirius iiiacitlosus, Schott, p. 14. 



