68 EDWARD NORTON. 



2. Abdomen partly black. 



9. H. hnmeralis. 



Hyloloma hnmeralis, P. cleBoauv., Ins. Afr. et Am. 1797, 99, p. ix, Hymen, 

 fig. 6, >% . 



Lepel., Mon. Tenth. 47, 133. 

 Hylotoma sanguinea, Klug, Berl. Mag. vi, 299, 22 ; Jahrbueh., 231, 20, 9 . 

 Hylotoma scutellata, Say, Bost. Jour. I, 211, 1, 9- 

 Color blue-black; scutel, pleura and abdomen, except at apex, eoccineous : 

 wings violaceous. Length 0.45. Br. wings 0.94 inch. 



9 S . AnteiiDfe in both sexes as long as tliorax, piceous, palest to- 

 ward tip ; second article as long as first, both slightly obliriuely trun- 

 cate above; head, thorax, apex of abdomen and legs shining blue-black ; 

 scutel, anterior angle, pleura and abdomen bright red, sometimes yel- 

 low-red ; third joint of palpi swelled; side spines of tibi.'B black; api- 

 cal spines rather long; inner spine of anterior tibiae blunt. Wings 

 violaceous sub-opaque, usually darkest toward base ; a large dark spot 

 covering all of the marginal and the upper half of submarginal cells; 

 under wing less obscure. 



Var. a. Scutel blue. New York ; Virginia. 

 Var. b. Scutel blue. Tergum mostly blue. Illinois, (Walsh). 

 New England, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Kan- 

 sas. Georgia, (Klug). 



10. H. procera. 



Hylotoma 2^ roeer a, Klug, Jahrbueh., 1834, 235, 38, 9. 

 "Red, with the thorax before and legs blue-black; abdomen testaceous, anal 

 segment blue-black. Length 6 lines. 



% . Antennae black, almost as long as thorax ; head .shining blue- 

 black; the back of thorax yellow-red, bordered with blue; wing-scales 

 and legs deep blue; wings dusky brownish, transparent, with black 

 nerves and stigma; abdomen reddish-yellow, the last ventral segment 

 shining blue; body slender." 

 Mexico. Not seen. 



11. H. poecila. 



Hylotoma 2>oecila, Klug, Jahrbueh., 1S34, 239, 54, %. 

 "Testaceous; the head, sj^ots on thorax, apex of abdomen, tibife and tar.-;i 

 black; wings fuscous, in the middle hyaline." Length 0.2S — 0.32. Br. wings 

 0.60—0.68 inch. 



" % . Head and antennae black, palpi yellow. On each side of scutel 

 is a black spot ; the four last segments of abdomen as well as the tarsi 

 and hinder tibiae are black ; wings transparent in the middle, with 

 yellow nerves ; their base and tips blackish, with black nerves, (that 

 is, they are blackish, with a clear band across the middle) ; costa to- 

 ward the end and stigma yellow." 

 IMexico. 



