56 EDWARD NORTON. 



with inctiillic reflections and covered with short whitish pile; ridue be- 

 tween antennae elevated; nasus eniarginate ; palpi pale; teguhB and 

 anterior angle waxen-white; a semi-obsolete whitish band on apex of 

 each segment of tergum ; abdomen stout; legs with the cox?e, a band 

 on all the femora and apex of posterior tibiic blackish, remainder fuscous, 

 paler before ; inner space of anterior tibife large and obtuse; wings 

 hyaline, very faintly clouded ; nervures brown-yellowish at base; first 

 subniarginal square, not rounded behind; second and third cells receiv- 

 ing the recurrent nervures near their base; third subniarginal large, 

 foi'm approaching that of Atomacera. 

 Maine ; Illinois. 



5. Schizocerus privatus, n. sp. 



Black, with sotni-Db.scuif wings; abd>men yellow-rod. Length 0.20. Br. 

 wings 0.54 inch. 



9 . Black. Antennae moderate, flattened above the middle and 

 thus appearing filiform from above, pilose; head wide, nasus yellowish. 

 Thorax black, except the sides of metathorax and basal plates, which, 

 with the abdomen are yellow-red, tip of ovipositor sheath black ; legs 

 black, their four hinder coxae, trochanters, and base of femora yellow; 

 wings blackish, sub-opaque, the first subniarginal cell distinct, but the 

 dividing nervure obsolete in middle; third submarginal quite narrow. 



La. New Orleans. One 9 • 



This may be the same as Atomacera cellularis of Say. 



6. S. (Hylotoma) alljicollis. King. Jahrb., 18:54, 245, 76, 9 .—Brazil. 



7. S. (Hylotoma) brasiliana, King, Berl. Mag. vi, 1814, 308, 40; Jahrbuoh., 245, 



75. — Brazil. 



8. S. cyanoptera, Pcrty. Spix and Mart., Dtdect. Ilym. IS.'JO, lOO, Tab. x.xvi, 4. 



—Brazil. 



9. S. (Hylotoma) filicornis, King, Jahrbuch., 18.S4, 244, 74, % 9.— Brazil. 



10. S. (Hylotoma) gibba, King, Jahrb., 1834, 245, 77, 9, Tab. II, fig. 7.— Brazil. 



11. S. hyaloptera, Pcrty, Spix and Mart., Delect. 1830, l,^0, Tab. xxvi, fig. C— 



Aniaznn. 



12. S. obscura, I'.rulhS Ilym. iv, 1846, 668, PI. 47, fig. 4.— South America. 



v.',. S. xantboptera, Perty, Spix and Mart., Delect. 1830, 130. Tab. xxvi, fig. 5.— 

 Rio Negro, Brazil. 



17. ATOMACERA, Say. 

 Atomarcrn, Say, Bost. Jonr, I, 18;;.), i;i2. 



'• Whifjs. — One margintil. not appendiculate, and three or four sub- 

 marginal cells, the dividing nervure between first and .second being ob- 

 solete" or sub-obsolete; third submarginal with the cross-nervures 

 ratlier widely separated, the outer nervure nearly twice as long as the 



