1865.] - 271 



with obscure ferruginous ; beneath black, stained with yellowish to- 

 wards the base. Length G lines; expanse of wings 11 lines. 



One specimen. This fine species may be readily distinguished by 

 the subclavate antennas, the red legs, and broad yellow fasciae of the 

 abdomen. 



2. Metopius pulchellus, n. sp. 



Ferruginous ; back of head, incisures of thorax and abdomen, blackish ; face, 

 tegulse and a line before, two lines on pleura, scutellums, sides of metathorax, 

 and the first and most of the third and following segments of abdomen, bright 

 yellow; wings varied with fuscous, violaceous at tips; antennae long, filiform. 



Female. — Head blackish ; a transverse line behind the ocelli, a spot 

 on lower part of cheeks, the labrum and mandibles, ferruginous; fron- 

 tal orbits and face bright yellow, the latter finely punctured and flat- 

 tened on the middle, which is surrounded by a sharply defined carina, 

 forming a perfect shield-shaped enclosure, on the middle there is a lon- 

 gitudinal ferruginous stain but no vestige of a carina as in the preced- 

 ing species ; between the antennas there is a short, yellow, very promi- 

 nent ridge ; palpi ferruginous, the second joint very much dilated and 

 yellowish ; antennas more than half the length of the body, subfiliform. 

 slender at tips, the basal half ferruginous, the remainder dusky, basal 

 joint beneath tinged with yellowish. Thorax closely and deeply punc- 

 tured, ferruginous; anterior part of the mesothorax and the sutures of 

 the thorax beneath, blackish ; upper margins of the prothorax, an elon- 

 gate spot on the anterior margin of the pleura, the tegulas and a short 

 line beneath, and a dot on each side of the pleura just above the mid- 

 dle coxae, yellow ; scutellum flat, quadrate, deeply punctured, yellow, 

 ferruginous at base, the apical margin deeply emarginate, the lateral 

 angles very prominent and acute, the lateral carinas sharply defined, 

 yellowish at base and apex, the excavation in front deep and blackish; 

 postseutellum yellow; metathorax punctured, ferruginous, with two 

 confluent yellow spots on each extreme side, the lower one the largest, 

 on the disk there are three approximate, well defined, longitudinal 

 carinas, forming two elongate central areas. Wings varied with fus- 

 cous, with a brassy gloss, the apical margins palest, the marginal cell 

 darkest, with a deep violaceous reflection ; nervures fuscous, costa and 

 stigma yellowish; areolet large, subrhomboidal. Legs moderately stout, 

 ferruginous; tips of the middle coxas, spot on the posterior coxas at 

 base above, the trochanters, tips of the femora, and four anterior tibiae 

 and tarsi, yellow ; posterior tibiae and tarsi tinged with yellowish at 

 base, dusky at tips. Abdomen depressed, broad and strongly incurved 

 at tip, densely and coarsely punctured, the three basal segments rugoso- 



