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another elongate, irregular mark of the same color on the lower mar- 

 gin beneath the tip, a spot beneath over the basal tooth, and on the 

 middle a small spot near the tip, yellowish, lower margin armed with a 

 row of sixteen or seventeen minute obtuse teeth, the basal one much 

 the largest; their tibiae curved, acute at tip, piceous, with a spot near 

 the base and another near the tip, both yellowish-white ; all the tarsi 

 yellowish, dusky at tips. Abdomen elongate, acuminate and pointed 

 at tip, shining black; petiole short and stout; the third and three fol- 

 lowing segments with a transverse basal yellowish fascia on each side 

 of the middle, with a yellowish spot on each extreme side, obsolete on 

 the third segment; seventh segment with a round yellowish-white spot 

 on each side ; apical segments pubescent ; beneath black, immaculate. 

 Length If — 3 lines; expanse of wings 2h — 4 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad., and Dr. .1. (lundlach. Two specimens. 



The small specimen varies by having two pale ferruginous spots on 

 the vertex behind the ocelli, and a line of the same color on each side 

 of the anterior ocellus; the lateral margins of the scuteliuin are ferru- 

 ginous, with a large whitish spot on each side near the tip; the abdo- 

 men is pale piceous. the yellowish-white markings similar and more 

 distinct, with the addition of two spots of the same color on the disk 

 of the second segment ; otherwise the color and markings are the same 

 as in the large specimen. 



Genus EPITRANUS. Walker. 

 Epitranus castaneus. n. sp. 



Entirely pale chestnut-brown, the thorax and abdomen above darker; abdo- 

 men smooth and polished, petiole long and striated: antennae inserted close to 

 the mouth; wings hyaline, apparently veinless. 



Pale chestnut-brown ; head flattened behind the ocelli, making the 

 vertex somewhat prominent ; eyes small, rounded ; face rather broad 

 and flattened ; antennae inserted very close to the mouth, pale ferrugi- 

 nous, the scape long and slender, flagellum stouter and uniform in 

 thickness. Thorax covered with uniform, close and rather deep punc- 

 tures, very slightly pubescent ; scuteliuin rather prominent; metatho- 

 rax flattened, with coarse longitudinal rugae, disk blackish and finely 

 rugose, the tip narrowed to the insertion of the abdomen, extreme sides 

 prominent and rugose. Wings pure hyaline, slightly iridescent, the 

 nervures indistinct. Legs : the two anterior pairs pale ferruginous ; 

 posterior pair darker, their coxae robust and subelongate, finely rugose ; 

 their femora swollen and armed beneath with eight small black obtuse 

 teeth and a large basal one tipped with black; their tibiae curved, 

 acute at tips, somewhat carinate and forming a prominent ridge near 



