04 [January 



lum subfusiform, tlie scape yellowish beneath. Thorax roughly and 

 densely punctured, somewhat rugose; prothorax rugose, yellowish, 

 with a transverse brownish spot on each side above ; mesothorax brown- 

 ish, with a longitudinal line on each side of the disk, converging on the 

 scutellum, and a broad line over the tegulae, yellowish ; pleura rather 

 coarsely punctured, yellowish, with the suture between it and the pec- 

 tus and a broad, deeply impressed, oblique, somewhat crenulated line 

 beneath the wings, brownish; scutellum large and produced, yellowish, 

 with a large triangular brownish mark on the disk, the posterior mar- 

 gin truncate with a stout acute tooth on each side; metathorax roughly 

 rugose, brown at base, very much produced on each extreme side and 

 armed behind by two diverging, rather long, acute teeth; tegulae yel- 

 lowish. Wings subhyaline. slightly tinged with fuscous, especially 

 towards the tips. Legs luteous-yellow, smooth and shining, slightly 

 pubescent ; posterior coxae very elongate, their apical half and the tro- 

 chanters rufous ; posterior femora much swollen, armed beneath with 

 four large teeth, the basal one much the largest and stoutest, the two 

 middle ones more slender and acute, and directed backwards, the apical 

 one broad at base and acute at tip ; a large rufous stain on the upper 

 surface, another over the large basal tooth and running along the 

 lower margin and covering all the teeth, which are tipped with black- 

 ish ; posterior tibiae curved, acute at tip, the base stained with brown- 

 ish-ferruginous and the inner margin blackish; extreme tips of the 

 tarsi, dusky. Abdomen short, subcompressed at tip, smooth and pol- 

 ished, pale luteous-yellow, more or less tinged with pale ferruginous, 

 the second segment flattened in its anterior face with a narrow trans- 

 verse, sometimes subobsolete, dorsal blackish band towards the tip, and 

 the remaining segments sometimes indistinctly banded with fuscous; 

 petiole almost half the length of the rest of the abdomen. Length 4 

 lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Lour specimens. 



This species destroys the larva of Oallulryas Eubule; it sometimes 

 varies by having the prothorax above, the mesothorax and scutellum 

 almost entirely brownish, and the posterior coxae rufous except the ex- 

 treme base. 



Smiera pulchra, n. sp. 



Yellow ; antennae ferruginous-brown ; spot on vertex, occiput, disk of pro- 

 thorax, large mark on mesothorax enclosing three or four yellow spots, most of 

 pleura and metathorax, tips of posterior coxae, three spots on their femora, base 

 of their tibise and bands on tip of abdomen, black; wings subhyaline; scutel- 



