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except a large yellowish-white spot on the outside at tip ; the posterior 

 tibiae are black at base, with a black band on the middle, broader within, 

 and sometimes indistinct on the outside ; and the apical third of the 

 posterior tarsi is black. Length 2 — 3 lines; expanse of wings o} — 5 

 lines. 



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



One specimen in the collection of Dr. (lundlach, varies from the 

 other four specimens by the tegulae, the four anterior legs, except their 

 coxae and trochanters, the apical spot on the posterior femora, their 

 tibiae except base, and their tarsi, all bright yellow, as in robusta. 



Genus PKASGONOPHORA. Westw. 

 Phasgonophora insularis. n. sp. 



Black : prothorax, seutellum and legs, rufous ; wings hyaline, apical two- 

 t'.iirds stained with pale fuscous. 



Female. — Head black, coarsely punctured, clothed with short, pale, 

 glittering pubescence, and when viewed in front, the pubescence is 

 more densely arranged in five longitudinal lines, viz : one between the 

 insertion of the antennae, one on outside of the insertion of each anten- 

 na, and one on each inner orbit of the eyes; mouth dull piceous; an- 

 tennaa about as long as the thorax, dull black or piceous-black. Thorax 

 deaply and coarsely punctured or rugose; prothorax gibbous, very 

 coarsely punctured, rugose above, rufous, the anterior face depressed, 

 transversely striated, blackish and clothed with pale glittering pube- 

 scence, as well as the posterior margin ; mesothorax coarsely rugose, 

 black, the posterior margin and the sutures between the middle and 

 lateral lobes, margined with dense, short, pale, glittering pubescence ; 

 pleura black, sometimes obscurely tinged with piceous, clothed with 

 pale, glittering pubescence, and on each side a broad, deep, oblique, 

 polished groove, with a few transverse striae about the middle ; seutel- 

 lum rather strongly produced behind, rufous, coarsely rugose, its tip 

 obtusely emargin ite ; metathorax black, depressed above, with a few 

 well defined longitudinal polished carinae on the disk, interlaced by 

 several transverse ones; at the base, immediately beneath the seutellum. 

 a transverse carina enclosing a narrow space which is beautifully cre- 

 nulated or covered with short, well-defined carinae; on each side, just 

 behind the posterior wings, a lateral, acute spine, beneath this spine the 

 sides of the metathorax are densely and coarsely punctured, and covered 

 with short, pale, glittering pubescence, as well as the sides of the upper 

 surf ice ; tegulae piceous, polished, margined without with obscure tes- 

 taceous. Wings hyaline, the apical two-thirds stained with pale fus- 



