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and the collar at sides and beneath, niesothorax, scutellum, and a small streak on 

 the side of the nietathorax, red ; the inesotliorax is laterally margined with yel- 

 low, abbreviated before. Lejis yellowish red, posterior tarsi slightly dusky. Ab- 

 domen has all the segments after the first margined at apex with red. The tho- 

 rax, scutellum and metathorax are moderately densely jjunctulate, the latter 

 iiaving a transverse carina posteriorly. Wings hyaline, strongly iridescent; 

 stigma and veins brown, discal areolet comi)lete, obli()ue. 



Hub. — Alainedu, Cal. 



Described from one speciincti hiheled No. 3846 , received from 

 Mr. Albert Koebele, reared ^[:lr(•ll 1, 1880, from Ddkriuna feeding 

 on Lecaninm scale on rose. 



Another specimen is labeled No. 420, and agrees with the above, 

 except the yellow oi'bital line, and the spot at summit of eye are 

 wanting. 



Tril)e III. Phiij}/inL 



ICTOPI.KCTIS Fiirstcr. 



Ictoplectis orKyisc sp. n. 



% 9- — Length 7 mm.; ovip. "2.5 mm. ; % (J mm. Black, shining; dypeus and 

 maxillary jtalpi piceous; labial palpi, anterior coxse and trochanters and tegulse, 

 white; antennse entirely black. Legs yellowish red, tips of middle tarsal joints 

 fuscous, posterior tibise black, with a white annulus at base and a wider one in 

 the middle, their tarsi fuscous or black; the basal half of first, base of second 

 and third joints, white. Thorax smooth, metathorax punctulate with two not 

 sharply defined raised lines extending from base of post-scutellum and becoming 

 obliterated posteriorly ; on each side of these lines is a large, smooth space with 

 some coarse separate punctures over the surface. Abdomen coarsely punctured, 

 some of the punctures confluent; the first segment has two abbreviated carinsp 

 dorsally at base, the second has oblitiue depressions at sides near the base, similar 

 to Glf/pta, but not apparent on the following segments; all the segments have a 

 more or less binodose apjiearance on account of a transverse depression more dis- 

 tinctly apparent laterally; the hollow venter is whitish with black spots; the 

 sheaths of the ovipositor black, hairy. Wings subhyaline; stigma and veins 

 jiiceo-black, a spot at base of stigma yellow; discal areolet obli()ue, with a bulla 

 at base and another on the outer nervure, the second recurrent nervure with two 

 bulhe. the cultital nervure broken just before its middle with a bulla behind the 

 break. 



The % diffei's from the 9 i" having the whole face, the clypeus and both paire 

 of jialpi white; antennsE dark brown; the anterior as well as the middle legs 

 mostly white, the femora stained with yellowish red and the apex of tarsal joints 

 fuscous ; the posterior legs are as in the 9 • except all the tarsal joints are white 

 l)asally. 



Hub. — Alameda, Cal. 



Described from four S and 9 specimens bred July 4, 1887, l)v 

 AIluTt Koebele from Orj/f/la (/ii/o.m. 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. X.\III. JUNK. I«9(i. 



