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proceeding from the base of the stigma. Legs rufous, the four anterior 

 coxte with a white spot. Abdomen stout, subovate, very slender at 

 base, and strongly arcuated, shining ; basal segment rufous, sometimes 

 blackish, with a white band at tip'; remaining segments black, broadly 

 margined at tip with white, the apical segments not so broadly margined 

 as the others ; ovipositor black, exserted two-thirds the length of the 

 abdomen. Length 4'. lines; expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Male — Smaller, and much more slender than the female, and differs 

 in color as follows : — the superior wings are hyaline, with the apical third 

 fuscous, as well as a spot at the lower base of the first submarginal cell ; 

 the scutellum has a white spot, as well as one on the postscutellum; the 

 metatborax is not spinose, the white spots being scarcely elevated, and 

 the four anterior coxte are entirely white. Length 3 — 4 lines; expanse 

 of wings 5 — 7 lines. 



Collect ion. — Ent. Soc. Philad. 2 S , 1 9 , specimens. 



This species answers in some respects to the description given of H. 

 fuscipennis Brulle, from Hayti, but I am uncertain of their identity. 

 It may be only a variety of that species. Prof. Poey informs me that 

 this species devours the chrysalis of his Pi/ rails Jleg 'talis. 



Hemiteles amcenus, n. sp. 



Kufous; antennae and abdomen black, banded with white; face, orbits, two 

 spots behind the wings, two spots on. the metatborax and the legs in part, 

 whitish ; wings hyaline 



Female. — Rufous, opaque ; face, orbits and mouth, white ; antennae 

 as lung as the body, black, with a broad white annulus beyond the 

 middle. Thorax with the dorsal lines well impressed ; on each side 

 behind the posterior wings, a rather large, rounded, white spot; meta- 

 tborax with a slight, transverse carina near the base, and on each side 

 posteriorly a small white spot, elevated into a subacute tubercle. Wings 

 hyaline, slightly dusky towards the tip, iridescent; nervures and stigma 

 fuscous. Legs slender, dusky, whitish beneath ; coxae whitish, the 

 posterior pair with a black line on the outside and a spot at tip on the 

 inside ; the four posterior tarsi black, with a broad white band on the 

 middle; posterior tibiae brownish. Abdomen subovate, slender at base, 

 shining; basal segment rufous, white at tip; second segment black, 

 tinged with piceous at base; third segment white, blackish on the mid- 

 dle at base; fourth and two following segments black, the fourth white 

 on each side at base; remaining segments white; ovipositor rufous, 

 scarcely half the length of the abdomen. Length 3] lines; expanse 

 of wings 5 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Glundlach. One specimen. 



