1891] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 145 



with fuscous, interspaces of tlie veins and some obscure 

 basal spots fuscous. Tergum dull yellowish or g-reenish 

 testaceous, having a broad fuscous band at base, and 

 interrupted fuscous lines and dots on the sides and apical 

 segments ; venter pale testaceous, more or less inscribed 

 with fuscous. 



Length to tip of venter three and a half to four 

 millims. Breadth of pronotum two millims. Breadth 

 of abdomen two and a half to three millims. 



Only three specimens, all males, of the brachelytrous 

 form, have been reported. These were obtained by Mr. 

 Coquillett in Los Angeles County, Cal. 



It will be of much interest to secure the macropterous 

 form of this fine insect, as until that is obtained no full 

 diagnosis of the perfect venation of the genus can be 

 given. 



BELONOCHARIS. Nezv gen 



Closely related to Scolops Germ, and with the same 

 kind of cephalic prolongation, but is a much more delicate 

 type of insect. Macropterous form having the hemely- 

 tra very tender and nearly twice as long as the body; 

 with the body depressed and subovate. Head narrow, 

 the cephalic stylus very slender, curved upwards, but 

 little widened at base, the vertex narrow, oblong, tumid, 

 excavated behind, but little wider than the base of the 

 stylus; front oblong, with carinate margins and three 

 approximate carinate lines along the middle; clypeus 

 longer than the front, spatulate, carinate on the middle 

 line; rostrum reaching to near the tip of the venter. 

 Anterior pair of femora lamellate with the margins 

 curved and a carina along the middle; posterior tibiae 

 slender, armed with a series of six short spines. Pro- 



