Genus SELANDRIA. 

 Sec. I. Tribe 2. 

 1 1. Selandria barda. 



AUantus barda, Say. 



Black; tegulfe. pro- and mesothorax and an angle on pleura, red. (Long 

 0.2,S. Br. wings 0.64 in.) 



% . Shining black ; 2ud joint of antenna} as long but not as large as the 1st: 

 .ird as long as the 4th and 5th; head nearly as wide as thorax, polished : the 

 abdomen wide and bluntly rounded at the end ; the tegulse, prothorax. meso- 

 thorax, the anterior half of scutel and an angle on forward part of pleura, red : 

 legs black, the apical half of anterior femora and their tibiae and the knees of 

 intermediate pair reddish : wings ample, black-fuscous, darkest toward base, 

 uervures black. 



Var. % . The lobes of mesothorax partly black. 

 Peunsylvauia. (Coll. P]nt. Soc. Philad.) Two specimons. 



1 ."). Selandria medius, u. sp. 

 Black, with white tegulffi, collar and legs. (Long 0.20. Br. wings 0.4.') in.) 

 9. Shining black, antenna} as in S. til ice ; the depressions at sides of ocelli 

 join a straight cross groove above, but do not extend to summit; the lower 

 ocellus is in an oval space, with no deep cross sinus below, as in S. tili(z ; tegulse 

 and most of anterior angle white, legs below trochanters reddish white: base 

 of femora darkest ; wings hyaline ; marginal dividing nervure curved, received 

 near middle of 3rd submarginal, 2nd recurrent nervure beneath, almost coin- 

 ciding with 2nd submarginal cross nervure, 1st submarginal oval. 



%. Antennse more flattened, more of black on the base of coxfe ; marginal 

 dividing nervure nearer to 3rd submarginal nervure: 2nd recurrent nervure 

 received nearer to the middle of cell. 



New Jersey. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.) 



Sec. III. Tribe 2. 

 lii. Selandria fasciatus, n. sp. 



Black ; legs below the knees except tip of hinder tibiae, white, basal half of 

 wings blackish. (Long 0.20. Br. wings 0.50 in.) 



9. Shining black, 3rd joint of antennse as long as the 4th and 5tli : head 

 shining, lower ocellus in a heart-shaped depression ; a sinus between, above 

 the base of antennsE, with a little pit upon each side ; legs black : their tibia^ 

 and tarsi, except the apical joints, pure white ; the apex of posterior tibice 

 black ; wings ample, their basal half blackish fuscous ; apical half hyaline. 



Massachusetts. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.) One specimen. 



This may be a variety of Selandria rerasi. The broad band 011 tlie 

 Ijase of the wings is very distinct. 



Genus ALLANTUS. 

 17. Allantus unicinctus, n. sp. 



Black, a wide annulus on antennae, the face beneath, collar, scutel, Ith and 

 .Jth segments of abdomen and lower half of legs, white. (Long 0.47. Br. wings 

 0.02 in.) 



