70 EDWARD NORTON. 



cross ridge below. Head black ; about and beneath antennae pale; a 

 vitta on each lobe of luesothorax, the four apical segments of abdomen, 

 obsolete spots on all the tergum, and a spot on the breast black. Legs 

 yellow-white ; coxae at base, femora, except at tip, apical two-thirds of 

 the tibiae, and the four apical joints of tarsi black. Wings yellow hya- 

 line; their apex from the middle of stigma across the wing, black ; se- 

 cond recurrent nervure received near the second submarginal cross- 

 nervure, 



Mexico. One S , (Coll. of H. deSaussure). 



Closely resembles II. Irpida, Klug. 



.3. Abdomen rufous. 



14. H. pectoralis. 



Hylotomajiectoralis, Leach, Zool. Misc. Ill, 1817, 124, 10, 9. 

 Lepel, Mon. Tenth. 47, 132, J. 

 " Antennae black ; head, breast and legs blue-black; thorax coeci- 

 neo-luteus; abdomen luteus; wings luteus-hyaliue. Length 4 lines. 

 Br. wings 10 lines." 



North America. Not seen. 



15. H. dulciaria. 



Hylotoma dulciaria, Say, Long's Second Exp. II, 1824, 314, 9 • 

 "Pale rufous ; head, wings and feet violaceous black." Length 0.34 — 0.4S. Br. 

 wings 0,74 — 1.04 inch. 



9. Antennae bli^3k, with a violaceous tinge; nasus emarginate, 

 short ; head, a spot on pectus and ovipositor sheaths blue-black, re- 

 mainder of body testaceous or yellowish-red; legs steel-blue, spines 

 same color, inner spines rather blunt. Wings violaceous, sub-hyaline, 

 less obscure at apex, a large darker spot below stigma covering margi- 

 nal and the upper half of all the submarginal cells. Under wings with 

 but one middle cell. 



Maine, N. Hampshire, Connecticut, New York. N. W. Ter., (Say.) 

 Illinois; Phiglish River, (Smithsonian Listitute). 



This is probably the same with //. jjcctoi-alia, Leach, from which it 

 diifers only in the color of the wings and the black ovipositor sheaths, 

 which Say calls the 'Hail black." 



16. H. miniata. 



Hylotoma mininfn, Klug. Berl. Mag. vi, 1814, 298, 22, %; Jahrbuch., 231, 22. 

 Hylotoma scutcllata, Lepel., Mon. Tenth. 47, 135. (Patria ignota.) 

 "Coccineus ; head, three spots on the thorax and the legs black. Length 3i 

 lines. Br. wings 7 lines. 



% . The color of the body is a verraillion or cinnabar red. The head 

 and antennae are black; mandibles brown, with black teeth; a black 

 spot on the thorax, extending over the middle and side lobes; a larger 



