98 [January 



nous, with a deeply excavated oblique blackish line and a blackish spot on 

 the anterior suture; scutellum yellowish-ferruginous, with a large dorsal 

 blackish mark; metathorax yellowish-ferruginous, blackish on each side 

 at base; tegulse pale yellowish. Legs: the two anterior pairs, including 

 their coxae, pale yellowish ; posterior pair dull ferruginous, their coxae 

 very elongate, swollen at base and gradually attenuated to the tips which 

 are slender and toothed above, and stained within and towards the tip 

 with blackish ; their femora much swollen and armed beneath with a 

 row of about twelve small blackish teeth, the basal one the largest ; the 

 upper and inner side are blackish, the former with a pale yellowish 

 streak, and the outer side with a spot towards the tip and another over 

 the basal tooth, of the same color; their tibiae curved, acute, stained on 

 the middle and at tip with pale yellowish ; their tarsi pale yellowish, 

 dusky at tips. Abdomen small and globose, smooth and shining, more 

 or less marked above with blackish ; petiole very long and slender, twice 

 as long as the rest of the abdomen, covered with fine transverse strhe, 

 black, pale yellowish at both extremities. Length 1 : ; line; expanse of 

 wings 2] lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Easily recognized by the very long and slender petiole of the abdo- 

 men. 



Smiera scutellaris, n. sp. 



Dull ferruginous: antennae, most of pleura, large spot on posterior coxte, 

 part of the femora and tihipe, ami must of the abdomen, black : sides of the face, 

 whole of scutellum, tips of posterior coxre, spots on their femora and tibise, and 

 a spot on each side of abdomen above, pale yellowish ; wings subhyaline. 



Head ferruginous, closely punctured ; the orbits, face, except a cen- 

 tral black spot, clypeus and mandibles, yellowish-white ; antenna) in- 

 serted on the middle of the face, entirely black, scape long and slender, 

 flagellum rather stout, of uniform thickness. Thorax very densely and 

 roughly punctured, dull ferruginous ; prothorax margined with pale 

 yellowish, with a black spot on the lateral truncation ; pleura blackish, 

 with a pale spot beneath the wings ; scutellum large, somewhat de- 

 pressed, entirely clay-yellow, its posterior margin subcarinate, and the 

 spaces on each side ferruginous, margined behind with black and stri- 

 ated; postscutelluni pale clay -yellow on the middle, blackish and striated 

 on the sides; metathorax coarsely rugose, black, stained with rufous, 

 the prominent sides dull ferruginous, blackish about the insertion of the 

 posterior coxa3 ; tegulae luteous. Wings almost hyaline, very faintly 

 tinged with fuscous, slightly iridescent, the costal nervure fuscous. 

 Legs dull ferruginous; the four anterior coxae whitish; the femora. 



