1865.] 09 



tibia) and tarsi, pale yellowish, the two former lined without and within 

 with blackish ; posterior coxa) elongate, stout, with a large black spot 

 above, the tips pale, with an acute tooth above; their femora much 

 swollen, rufo-ferruginous, stained above and on the inside with blackish, 

 a spot above at the tip, another on each side of the lower margin below the 

 tip. and another one over the basal tooth, all whitish, the one on the 

 inside below the tip is surrounded by blackish, lower margin armed 

 with a row of fourteen or sixteen minute black teeth, the basal one the 

 largest ; their tibia) curved and acute at tip, black, interrupted near 

 the base and tips with whitish; tarsi pale yellowish, dusky at extreme 

 tips. Abdomen ovate, slightly compressed, pointed at tip, smooth and 

 shining, black, piceous above, rufous beneath; on each side of the third 

 segment a whitish transverse spot; petiole stout, about one-third as long 

 as the rest of the abdomen, pale yellowish-white. Length 2:, ! lines; 

 expanse of wings -4} lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Gundlach. One specimen. 



Smiera flavopicta, n. sp. 



Black, varied with pale yellowish spots and marks ; wings subhyaline ; ab- 

 domen elongate, acuminate and pointed at tij) ; hind femora armed beneath 

 with a row of numerous small teeth. 



Black, slightly pubescent; the orbits, a large spot between the an- 

 tenna), another above the base of each mandible, and the mandibles 

 except tips, yellowish-white ; antenna) inserted on the middle of the 

 face, long and black, whitish at the extreme base, flagellum stout, of 

 uniform thickness, piceous, slightly paler at tips. Thorax opaque 

 black, minutely and densely shagreened ; prothorax margined on the 

 sides and behind with ferruginous, with six yellow spots on the anterior 

 margiu, two approximate ones on the disk and two more distant ones 

 on each side; mesothorax with an interrupted longitudinal line on each 

 side of the disk and two spots over the tegula), yellow or yellowish-fer- 

 ruginous; pleura entirely black, irregularly striated; scutellum broadly 

 margined on each side with pale yellowish, which color is deeply in- 

 dented with black on each side behind; postscutelluin stained with yel- 

 lowish-ferruginous on the disk ; metathorax entirely black, coarsely 

 rugose, more finely and somewhat reticulated on the prominent sides ; 

 tegula) pale yellowish. Wings very faintly tinged with fuscous, slightly 

 iridescent; costa blackish. Legs black; tips of the four anterior femora, 

 their tibia), except the middle, and their tarsi, pale yellowish; posterior 

 coxa) elongate, robust, black, yellowish at extreme tips, which have an 

 acute tooth above; their femora much swollen, with three irregular, 

 pale yellowish marks above near the tip, surrounded by ferruginous, 



