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side near the base a more or less distinct pale spot, sometimes large and 

 subtriangular. Length '2h lines; expanse of wings 5 lines. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Four specimens. 



Division. — Areolarii. 

 Genus AGATHIS, Latr. 

 Agathis cubensis, n. sp. 



Rufous; head, antennae, four anterior legs, and tips of posterior tibiae, black: 

 wings dark fuscous, with two hyaline spots beneath the stigma ; rnetathorax 

 coarsely rugose. 



Female. — Rufous, polished, slightly pubescent; head black, face pro- 

 longed and slightly tinged with rufous; antennae longer than the bead 

 and thorax, stout, black, tinged with piceous towards the tips. Thorax 

 polished ; mesothorax with the lobes very prominent, each one with a 

 broad, shallow, longitudinal central groove; the sutures beneath crenu- 

 lated ; rnetathorax coarsely rugose, with several sharply denned, longi- 

 tudinal carinas, pubescent, the extreme sides smooth and polished ; 

 tegulae rufous. Wings uniform dark fuscous, with two small hyaline 

 spots beneath the stigma ; nervures black. Legs robust, rufous ; the 

 four anterior trochanters, femora and tibiae, and the tips of the posterior 

 tibiae, black. Abdomen short, subovate, subcompressed, smooth and 

 polished, sometimes slightly tinged with dusky towards the apex; basal 

 segment depressed on each side about the middle ; ovipositor a little 

 shorter than the abdomen, rufous, valves black. Length 4J lines; ex- 

 pause of wings 10 lines. 



Male. — Resembles the female, with the face more rufous. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Two $ , one £ , specimens. 



Agathis ferrugator, n. sp. 



Pale rufous, shining ; antennae, trochanters, tips of posterior femora and tibiae, 

 and their tarsi, black; wings fuscous, slightly hyaline beneath the stigma. 



Female. — Pale rufous, shining, slightly pubescent; face much pro- 

 longed, Avith an impressed point on each side beneath the eyes ; palpi 

 dusky ; antennae nearly as long as the body, involute at tip, black or 

 piceous, the basal joints sometimes rufous. Thorax shining, indistinctly 

 punctured; lobes of the mesothorax distinctly defined, each lobe with 

 a broad groove down its middle, that on the ceutral lobe slightly cate- 

 nated; rnetathorax with several sharply defined longitudiual and trans- 

 verse carinae, forming several small cells ; tegulae pale rufous. Wings 

 fuscous, with two hyaline spots beneath the stigma ; nervures and 

 stigma blackish. Legs rufous, the posterior pair robust; posterior tro- 

 chanters, extreme tips of their femora, base and apex of their tibiae and 

 most of their tarsi, more or less blackish. Abdomen oblong, subcom- 



