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variety. They have the knees, tibire, anterior excepted, and in one 

 case the connexivuni obscure reddish piceous. The anal lobes are 

 dull sanguineous and the hind angles of the pronotum are very 

 pale. 



Apiomerus nitidicollis Stal. — One specimen. This has the 

 intermediate feet entirely pale, and a pale spot covers the inner field 

 of the corium across which the veins are black. 



Micrauchenus lineola Fabr. — A beautiful species of which a 

 number of specimens were received. 



Calliclapius nigripes Linn -This species resembles the preced- 

 ing in being intensely black with a sanguineous tip to the elytra, but 

 this is a more slender insect with the areoles of the membrane subhy- 

 aline. The antennae, except the basal joint, and the two hind pairs 

 of legs are rufous, and the head is differently shaped. 



Heniartes flavicans Fabr. — Easily distinguished by the two 

 silvery spots on the base of the scutellum. It is rufous with the 

 head and apical half of the elytra black. The hairy legs are even 

 more abundantly supplied with a sticky exhudation than in Apio- 

 merm. It seems to be common about Deraerara. 



Diplodus dispar Fabr. — One female I place here with little 

 doubt. The tips of the femora and a narrow ring a little below are 

 black. The abdomen is sanguineous above and yellowish beneath, 

 with the apex and four dots on each side of the venter black. The 

 thoracic spines are short, sharp and al)rupt. Another specimen, 

 probably a male of this, has the disk of the thorax and scutellum 

 dull rufous. Below it is pale with the tip of the abdomen black. 

 Here the thoracic spines are reduced to mere tubercles. 



Diplodus erythrocephalus Fabr. — Several examples received. 

 The females are beautiful insects with a red head and steel blue 

 elytra. The males are paler with fuscous elytra wanting the blue 

 reflections. The head is yellowish, clouded above and marked with 

 two fuscous lines behind the eyes which touch the ocelli and con- 

 verge to the base of the head. Venter in both sexes Avith a pale 

 carina. In the females the fifth and sixth segments have a white 

 farinaceous band on each side. The two hind pair of femora in the 

 males are annulated with pale near their base. There are two other 

 species of Diplodus in this lot that I have not yet been able to identify. 

 One is near pedestris Fabr. 



Notocyrtus gibbus Fabr. — Several specimens. 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVII. DEC, 1901. 



