90 Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr's Revision of the 



Group E. 



Craforo paucimaculatus, n. sp. 



$ . Head two-thirds as long as broad, not so cubical and angular as 

 usual, since it rounds behind more than usual, and the eyes are larger, 

 broader and more globose, swelling out beyond the head more than 

 usual. Vertex broad, slightly convex; ocelli remote from each other, 

 arranged in a low triangle; a few long hairs in front of the ocelli; 

 antenual groove deeply channelled, narrow, orbits broadly lined with 

 a silvery pubescence ; clypeal regiou silvery, clypeus one-half as long 

 as broad, being much shorter than in C. Q-maculatus ; well carinated. 

 Mandibles distinctly tridentate, middle tooth largest, inner tooth 

 scarcely smaller than the outer; yellowish testaceous, polished, ferru- 

 ginous towards tip. Antenme slender, scape long slightly dilated, 

 with an inner brown stripe, flagellum brown-black. Head closely punc- 

 tured, punctures larger than usual, though not so coarse as in C. in- 

 terruptus. 



Thorax deeply punctured, punctures dense and coarse. Prothorax 

 narrow, scutum divided by a deep notch; on each side a low sharp 

 carina, but the sides are not angulated. A testaceous dull spot on 

 each side ; tubercle yellow with a ferruginous tinge ; meta-scutellum 

 unusually large, with a hemispherical ferruginous yellow small mesial 

 spot. Shape of the thoraco-abdominal ring (propodeum) much as in C. 6- 

 maculatus, but the surface is simply rather coarsely punctured, but not 

 lineated, the anterior is separated from the posterior part of the ring 

 by a raised ridge : the ridges are inclined a little downwards posteriorly. 

 Tegulai black; wings darker than usual, near the tips a dusky minute 

 dot on the extremity of subcostal nervure ; nervures brownish black, 

 ferruginous near the base of the wings. Legs unusually dark : fore 

 and middle femora touched with ferruginous at tip, minutely pubes- 

 cent, hind femora black ; tibiae dull yellow in front, black behind, 

 third tibiae almost entirely yellow, base and tip black externally; joints 

 of tarsi long and slender, dark brown, thickly and finely pubescent. 



Abdomen much as in C Q-maculatus, but slenderer and more con- 

 vex above, basal ring being much longer and narrower ; six spotted, 

 one pair of orbicular spots on second, one on the fourth ring more 

 ovate, and a pair of minute dots on the fifth ring, the pair of fasciae 

 being nearly obsolete ; tips broadly triangular, very acute, as broad at 

 base as its entire length ; being more than one half broader and 

 shorter, and less deeply channelled than in C. sex-maculata. 



