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and the clypeus, yellowish ; antennas more than half the length of the 

 body, black, the basal joint ferruginous, a more or less distinct yellowish 

 aunulus about the middle. Thorax very closely and minutely punc- 

 tured; the pleura beneath much depressed and black just behind the 

 base of the anterior legs ; spaces on each side of the scutellum. and the 

 sutures of the metathorax. black ; scutellum rather prominent, the ca- 

 rinas on each side in front sinuate and blackish; metathorax very closely 

 punctured, with a central longitudinal line, well impressed at base, but 

 becomes obsolete before reaching the tip; tegulae pale ferruginous. 

 Wings yellowish hyaline, with a brassy and iridescent reflection; the 

 apical margins, and a broad transverse band just before the middle, 

 pale fuscous, the transverso-medial nervure margined with fuliginous ; 

 nervures fuscous, ferruginous at base, as well as the costa and stigma 

 except tip ; areolet subtriangular, subpetiolated. Legs color of the 

 body, the two anterior pairs, and the posterior tarsi tinged with yellow- 

 ish, the posterior tibiae blackish at tips. Abdomen elongate, subcylin- 

 dric, subdepressed, smooth and shining, paler at base and apex, the 

 latter subcompressed and tinged with yellowish ; venter varied with 

 yellow at base ; ovipositor short, rufo-piceous, valves black, pale at tips. 

 Length 4.] — 6 lines; expanse of wings 7i — 9 lines. 

 Five specimens. 



9. Exetastes scutellaris, n. sp. 



Fulvo-ferruginous ; antennae, sutures of thorax, hind legs in part, and spots 

 on venter, blackish; face and scutellum, yellow; wings fusco-hy xline, costa 

 and stigma yellowish. 



Female. — Bright fulvo-ferruginous, smooth and polisher . the head 

 in front and the mouth, strongly tinged with yellowish ; the vertex 

 with a dusky spot enclosing the ocelli; antennas dusky, paler beneath 

 towards the base ; mesothorax tinged with yellowish, with three broad, 

 longitudinal, dusky stripes, the central one entire, the lateral ones 

 abbreviated before; most of tegulas and a line just beneath the anterior 

 wings, yellow; scutellum prominent, bright yellow, sometimes with a 

 slight tinge of ferruginous; postscutellum yellowish-fulvous; spaces on 

 each side of the scutellums, a small stain on each side of the pleura 

 anteriorly, and an oblique line beneath the posterior wings, blackish ; 

 metathorax with a slightly impressed central longitudinal line. Wings 

 uniform fusco-hyaline, somewhat tinged with yellowish, with a subvio- 

 laceous reflection, the posterior pair iridescent ; nervures fuscous, pale 

 at base, costa and stigma yellowish-fulvous ; areolet large, obliquely 

 subrhomboidal. Legs color of the body, the two anterior pairs tinged 

 with yellowish ; tips of the posterior femora, apical half of the tibiae, 



