188 FAMILY EVANIID^. 



Face without a protuberance, and coarsely sculptured like tbe rest of the 

 liead ; forehead bare; furcula with distinct but parallel tynes; the 

 longer tibial spur scarcely one-half the length of the metatarsus. 

 Black ; thorax rusty reddish. 



OCf llaria Schletterer, Mexico, St. Thomas, Cuba. 



Hyptia soroi* Schletterer. 



This species was described from botli North and South America. 



But such a range seems almost impossible in view of what we know 



of the distribution of these insects. I believe that two species have 



been confused, and I liave not included it in the North American 



fauna. 



Hyptia poeyi Guerin. 



'J,. — -Red; antenna^, vertex, legs, except anterior pair in front which are 

 brown, and posterior coxaj behind wliich are red, abdomen with petiole, except 

 the apex which is black, yellow. Head from above transverse oval, the anterior 

 margin prominent; the vertex forming a rather sharp crest upon which are 

 placed the ocelli ; the posterior ocelli more tlian twice as far from each other as 

 from the compound eyes. From the side the forehead convex; the eye moder- 

 ate ; the temples moderate, slightly widened below; the malar space about one- 

 third the length of the eye. From in front the head is nearly round, somewhat 

 pointed below; the inner margins of tbe eyes almost parallel; an ill-defined 

 carina separates the cheeks from the face and runs within and removed from the 

 eyes to the altitude of the base of the antennae; face with irregular confluent 

 coarse punctures, which are everywhere covered and almost obliterated by minute 

 punctures; forehead covered with vestiture, among which a number of round 

 remarkably evenly placed punctures are visible; temples and cheeks with a few 

 moderate punctures. Antennae filiform; the pedicel one-third as long as the 

 scape, two-thirds as long as joint 3; the latter equalling joint 4; joints 3 -f- 4 

 equalling tbe scape. 



Pronotum emarginate above; humeral angles moderately sharp ; mesonotum 

 and scutelliim evenly covered with round, moderate, separated punctures, be- 

 tween which are a few small ones; parapsidal grooves indistinctly marked in 

 front ; mesopleurae smooth and polished, much depressed mesally ; venter 

 minutely punctulate; propodeum shallowly reticulate, coarsely punctured above 

 between the scutellum and the petiole; the sides with two oblique carinae, be- 

 tween which are almost obliterated irregular cross-bars; furcula with short 

 parallel indistinct tynes. 



Posterior tibial spur four-fifths the length of the metatarsus; the latter almost 

 as long as joints 2-5 together; claws with the innci' ray much stouter than the 

 outer. 



Petiole with a few small scattered punctures; abdomen highly polished; the 

 remaining segments almost concealed under the second and third, 



9 . — The female diflfers from the male in having very dense yellow pubescence 

 on the forehead, giving it a very striking appearance of bearing a yellow mane; 

 the crest on wliich the ocelli are placed is not so ])rominent; the flagelium is dis- 

 tinctly thickened beyond its second joint, tapering again at the apex ; the pedicel 

 two-ninths as long as the scai>e, two-thirds as long as joint 3; the latter one-half 



