10 [Al'RIL 



9. Dull black: antenuse not as long as thorax, 1st joint twice as long as 2nd. 

 3rd as long as both the 4th and 5th ; color black at base, from the 4th to Sth 

 inclusive white, apical joint brownish : head rugose, with a sinus below the 

 lower ocellus, nasus emarginate: labrum extended and pointed; both, with the 

 base of mandibles, a wide mark on collar, upper half of scutel, a spot on each 

 side of basal plates and an adjacent sjiot at base of posterior coxre, the 4th and 

 5th segments of abdomen whitish straw color: thorax dull with fine separated 

 ])unctures: legs black al)oye the knees: the whole apical half of anterior femora, 

 apical half of intermediate femora before and all the tibireand tarsi yellowish 

 white; tips of posterior tibise blackish ; tips of the four anterior tibise and of all 

 the tarsi reddish: wings clouded, apical half darkest, nervures black, stigma 

 and eosta brown. 



%,. The 4th and 5th joints of antennae black above, the sjwt on collar small. 

 the sides of 1st and 2nd and all of the 3rd segments of abdomen, excejit a spot 

 on its apical end above, yellowish. 



Rocky Mountains. Col. Ter. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.) 



IS. Allantus basilaris, Say. 



Var. a. S . Antenutie longer than usual ; their two basal joints and 

 part of the third somewhat rufous ; aVjdomen lengthened, mostly black, 

 with a large whitish spot on the 3rd, 4th and 5th segments above and 

 beneath ; legs reddish white, the intermediate femora above and most 

 part of posterior femora black, their tibife ferruginous, darkest toward 

 apex. 



Massachusetts (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.) ; Maine. (Mr. Packard.) 



Genus MACROPHYA. 

 8cc. 2. 

 I'.i. Macrophya bicinctus, Norton. 



Var. (I. 9 . All the apical segments of the tergura beyond the third 

 rufous, instead of only the 4th, 5th and 6th. 

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



8cr. 3. 

 2(1. Macrophya tibiator, n. sp. 



Black: the collar ami basal plates white: a white line down the anterior 

 femora and all the tibiae and tarsi. (Long 0.39. Br. wings 0.76 in.) 



9- Dull black: 2nd joint of autennje one-third the length of 1st ; head nearly 

 as wide as thorax, coriaceous below ocelli: nasus moderately incurved, white: 

 labrum advanced, piceous : scutellum and jileura coarsely punctured : teguhe, 

 edge of ci.iUar and of basal plates, white: legs black, all of the trochanters, a 

 line on the apical half of anterior femora and down all the four anterior tibi;e 

 and tarsi before and the posterior tibise and tarsi above, white ; all the tibife ami 

 tarsi tipi^ed with black: apical half of all the wings smoky, their base clear, 

 nervures blackish. 



