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eyes large and prominent ; antennae rather longer than the body, slen- 

 der, black, the basal joint beneath rufous. Thorax with the dorsal lines 

 well impressed ; the collar, tegulae, a cuneiform spot before and a spot 

 Fig. 4. beneath the fore-wings, an elongate spot beneath 



the hind-wings and another immediately beneath 

 it, white ; scutellum black, with a broad white 

 band near the tip; metathorax large, rather long. 

 rufous, with a fine, transverse, slightly arcuated carina near the base 

 and an elongate, white spot on each extreme side. Wings long, hya- 

 line, with three fuscous bands towards the apex, the two apical ones 

 confluent below ; nervures and stigma black ; marginal cell long and 

 narrow ; areolet large, subtriangular and very transverse (see Fig. 4). 

 Legs long and rather slender, rufous, the anterior coxas white, the four 

 posterior pair with a white spot above. Abdomen elongate, fusiform, 

 subpetiolated, strongly arcuated, shining; the two basal and two apical 

 segments dark rufous, remaining segments black above, rufuus laterally, 

 between each segment there is a whitish membrane as if the segments 

 were distended, and giving the appearance of whitish marginal bands; 

 beneath rufous; ovipositor rufous, nearly as long as the abdomen, valves 

 black. Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 9 J lines. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



This species has much the general appearance of a Cryptus, but the 

 wings are differently veined, and the abdomen is subpetiolated, though 

 strongly arcuated. The veining of the wings is different from that of* 

 any genus known to me. 



Genus HEMITELES, Grav. 

 Hemiteles incertus, n. sp. 



Rufous: antennae and abdomen black, the latter banded with white ; meta- 

 thorax with two long acute white spines; wings clouded, iridescent. 



Female. — Dull rufous, opaque; eyes large and prominent; orbits and 

 mandibles whitish; palpi dusky; antenna? as long as the body, black, 

 the basal joint beneath rufous. Thorax: mesothorax with the dorsal 

 lines deeply impressed; a line on the collar, tegulae, a line beneath the 

 auterior wing, a spot behind the posterior wing, an oblique line on the 

 pleura and a spot before and a little above each middle coxa, all white ; 

 metathorax finely rugose, smoother at base, the elevated lines not well 

 defined ; on each side posteriorly a rather large white spot, from each 

 of which proceeds a long, porrect, acute spine. Wings: anterior pair 

 fuscous, with a beautiful golden gloss; posterior pair hyaline, iridescent, 

 their apical margins faintly clouded ; nervures and stigma black ; on 

 the anterior pair there is a subhyaline ray in the first submarginal cell 



