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Labena apicalis, n. sp. 



Male. — Pale ferruginous, or honey-yellow, slightly pubescent; face 

 finely rugose, yellow, as well as the space before the ocelli, the orbits 

 and the clypeus; a band across the vertex, covering the ocelli, and tips 

 of the mandibles, black ; antennae as long as the body, porrect, honey- 

 yellow, black at tips, paler beneath. Thorax shining, very finely and 

 closely punctured ; a line on each side of the collar, margins of the 

 pectus, a spot on upper part of the pleura, and a line beneath the fore- 

 wings, yellowish; mesothorax entirely dull ferruginous; scutellums 

 yellowish-ferruginous; metathorax pubescent, dull ferruginous, shining 

 the apex tinged with yellowish, the elevated lines sharply defined, form- 

 ing a large, subquadrate, (5-sided, central area; tegulae longitudinal, 

 yellowish-ferruginous. Wings long, ample, hyaline, glossy, rather iri- 

 descent, the apex of both anterior and posterior pair dark fuscous; ner- 

 vures fuscous, stigma ferruginous; areolet large, rhomboidal. Legs 

 honey-yellow, polished ; the two anterior pairs, and the posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi, tinged with yellowish ; tips of all the tarsi blackish. Abdo- 

 men elongate, slender, gradually thickened towards the apex, which is 

 slightly incurved ; the segments polLshed and convex, with the apical 

 margin of the first four, more or less yellowish; beneath yellowish, with 

 large lateral blackish stains. Length 60 lines; expanse of wings Qa 

 lines. 



ffab. — Delaware. Dr. Thomas B. Wilson. One specimen. (Coll. 

 Entom. Soc. Philad.) 



Closely allied to L. gi-oUator, but is smaller, and at once distinguished 

 by the hyaline wings, with only their apex fuscous. 



