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impressed suture; cheeks separated from the face by a broad ridge, extendiiijr 

 upward close to the inner margin of the eyes; the clypeus and face gibbous: 

 face, forehead, vertex, temples and cheeks rather closely but shallowly umbili- 

 cately punctate, the punctures deepest on the vertex, in rows on the temples, 

 smaller than in prosetethetra ; the antennse filiform in the male, distinctly 

 clavate toward the middle of the flagellum in the female, inserted in a slight 

 depression considerably below the middle of the eyes; no interantennal carina; 

 scape a little less than one-fifth the length of the flagellum, one-seventh 

 longer than joints 3+4; pedicel less than one-half as long as the third joint. 

 Alitrunk short and stout. Pronotum straight, truncate, not incurved, nor pro- 

 longed at all into a collar; the humeral angles scarcely sharp, not prominent; 

 mesonotum and scutelium distinctly convex ; lateral and anterior grooves absent, 

 the parapsidal grooves very faintly impressed ; the polished area on the meso- 

 pleurje not large; a distinct round i)it in the centre, and a larger one at the 

 upper corner; tlie groove distinct and reaching to thecoxse; the anterior swell- 

 ing full and impressed with round punctures, a little smaller than those on the 

 dorsum, numerous minute punctulations between the lower ones; the venter is 

 similarly punctured, the metaventer a little more coarsely ; the mesonotum, scu- 

 telium and propodeum above the petiole are closel.y, coarsely and umbilicately 

 punctured, the punctures quite large; the propodeum below the petiole is reticu- 

 late; the sides of the jiropodeum and the metapleurse are sculptured as in Fig. 6. 

 Petiole smooth and polished, with scattered ill defined punctures. Abdomen 

 orbicular, smooth and polished. Length 6.5 mm. 



A specimen from New Jersey is entirely bluck and may he dis- 

 tinct. 



Hah. — Florida (Jacksonville, Crescent City, Biscayne Bay) ; 

 Virginia; Georgia (Tif'ton) ; New Jersey (Da Costa, July 19. '03, 

 E. Daecke). 



Described specimen in the authoi-'s collection. 



In 1840 Blanchard described Evania thoracica and his descrij)tion 

 may apply either to a true Evania, which is highly improbable, be- 

 cause we know no North American species that are red in color, to 

 an Evaniella or to a Hyptia. \n 18-14 Guerin referred to Blanch- 

 ard's species under the same name without attempt to change its 

 limitation. It has been common among collectors to call all the 

 more or le.ss red species of Hyptia occurring in Noi'th America 

 thoracica, and hence it seems well to determine that henceforth until 

 Blanchard's type l)e rediscovered the name thoracica Blanchard 

 shall apply to the red species of Hyptia, wliich I iiave above 

 described under that name. In 1841 Shuckard, evidently unaware 

 of Blanchard's work, described Hyptlam. tlwracicam, basing the 

 form Hyptlam on the accusative used 1)V Illiger in his original men- 

 tion of tlie genus, as elsewhere detailed. By a figure of the wing 



TR.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIV. M.W. 1908. 



