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the oblong excavation at the base of the spine on the scutellum is not 

 so deep. Wings hyaline, the nervures very pale yellowish, almost hya- 

 line, the radial ai*ea closed, shaped as in the preceding species ; areolet 

 obsolete. Legs, with the coxae, honey-yellow, pubescent, Abdomen 

 ovate, convex, smooth and polished, the extreme base of the 2nd seg- 

 ment and the ventral valve tinged with rufous; basal segment annular 

 and aciculate ; 3rd segment twice the length of the second, the suture 

 between them connate; 3rd segment not concealing the apical ones; 

 ovipositor slightly exserted, yellowish. Length 1 line. 



Collection. — Dr. J. G-undlach. One specimen. 



( 'losely resembles the preceding species, but is much smaller and less 

 robust; the antennae has one more joint and is differently shaped, and 

 the legs differently colored. 



Earn. EVAN II IKE. 

 Gen. EVANIA, Fabr. 

 Evania laevigata, Oliv. 



Evania laevigata Oliv. Encyl. Meth. vi. p. 453. Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. iii. p. 

 405; LaSagra, Hist. Cuba Ins. p. 751. Westw. Trans. Ent. 

 Soe. Loml. new ser. i. p. 213. 

 Evania Cuba. Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. iii. p. 405: tab. 05. lig. 1. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soe. Philad. ITS and 9 specimens. 

 Tins species devours the eggs of Blatta americctiia 



Evania semirubra. n. sp. 



Rufous'; anteim;e. four posterior legs, except coxae, and the abdomen, black : 

 wings hyaline. 



% 9 • — Head rufous; antenme as long as the body, entirely black. 

 Thorax entirely rufous; metathorax transversely rugose ; tegulne rufous. 

 Wings hyaline; nervures aud stigma black. Legs black; all the coxa' 

 and the anterior legs, somewhat obfuscated exteriorly, rufous. Abdo- 

 men ovate % , securiform 9 . very much compressed, shining, black ; 

 petiole slender, as long as the rest of the abdomen. Length 4 lines ; 

 expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soe. Philad. £ ; Dr. J. Gundlach $ . 



Evania (Hyptiam) Poeyi. Guer. 



Evania (Hyptiam) Poci/i. Guer. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 335; LaSagra, Hist. Cuba 



Ins. p. 752, pi. IS, fig. 3. Westw. Trans. Ent. Soe. 

 Lend, new ser. i, p. 214. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soe. Philad. Two specimens. 



AULACODES, nov. gen. (Fig. 3, a.) 

 ILad very large, transverse or slightly subglobose; eyes small ami 

 round; antennae, moderate, setaceous, inserted on the middle of the face. 



