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Genus PLANICEPS, Latr. 

 Planiceps collaris, n. sp. 



Black : anterior and posterior margin of prothorax, and the abdomen, ferru- 

 ginous ; wings fusco-h valine, the anterior pair with a strong golden reflection_ 

 Female. — Brownish-black, opaque, sericeous; face broad and flat, 

 the lower part slightly silvery -sericeous ; antennae short, black, slightly 

 involute. Thorax somewhat flattened above ; prothorax very large, 

 with a transverse, subquadrate mark in front and the posterior margin 

 entirely, bright ferruginous; metathorax rather large, abrupt behind, 

 covered with a dense cinereo-sericeous pile. Wings fusco-hyaline, 

 with a strong golden reflection, the posterior pair subhyaline, darker 

 at tips; two submarginal cells, the second about one-half the length of 

 the first, receiving the first recurrent nervure between the middle and 

 base, the second recurrent nervure is received beyond the tip of the 

 second submarginal cell. Legs brownish-sericeous, stout, the anterior 

 femora very robust; tibiae and tarsi spinose ; tibial spurs very long. 

 Abdomen subsessile, elongate, subcompressed, accuminate at the tip. 

 entirely ferruginous. Length 5 J lines ; expanse of wings 7 lines. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Genus CEROPALES, Latr. 

 Ceropales cubensis, n. sp. 



Black; face, orbits, posterior margin and a spot on each side of prothorax, 

 spot on scutellum, postscutellum, and spots and bands on abdomen, yellowish; 

 wings hyaline; legs ferruginous. 



Female. — Black ; the face, clypeus, cheeks, pleura, metathorax and 

 legs, covered with a very fine silvery-sericeous pile ; orbits, very broad 

 in front, not reaching the vertex, face beneath the antennas, a spot be- 

 hind them, the clypeus and labrum, pale yellowish, more or less silvery; 

 antennas longer than the head and thorax, porrect, black, covered with 

 a yellowish-sericeous pile; the two basal joints pale yellowish beneath, 

 sometimes obscurely so. Thorax : prothorax with a spot on each side 

 and its entire posterior margin, pale yellowish ; mesothorax depressed 

 behind, with a patch of close deep punctures on each side of the disk ; 

 pleura silvery ; scutellum with a central pale yellowish spot, and the 

 postscutellum with a transverse spot of the same color; metathorax short, 

 abrupt behind, silvery on the sides and behind ; tegulae testaceous. 

 Wings hyaline, slightly dusky at tips; nervures fuscous. Legs long, 

 especially the posterior pair; ferruginous; the four anterior coxas black, 

 more or less yellowish beneath, silvery; posterior tarsi very long, fus- 

 cous. Abdomen stout, black ; basal segment with a sublimate pale 

 yellowish apical spot on each side; remaining segments each with an 



