212 WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



Tribe V. Cryptini. 



C'RYPTIJS Fahr. 

 Cryi>lus(?) «'arpocapK$e sp. n. 



9 . — Length 8 mm. ; ovip. 3 ram. Head and thorax black. Legs and abdomen 

 brownish yellow ; face and broad orbital lines yellow ; antennfe black, joints 6-12 

 white above , collar above, tegulte and tubercles, a broad band on mesopleura ex- 

 tending from tubercles to base of middle coxte and connected at the base of the 

 middle coxse with another band extending to the base of the hind wing ; lines 

 along the parapsides abbreviated before and behind, the scutellura and wide 

 bands on the lateral edges of metathorax, all yellow or yellowish white. The 

 head and thorax are minutely punctulate, the collar and pleura with some raised 

 lines and wrinkles ; metathorax rugose, a transverse carina on upper surface, and 

 the posterior lateral angles produced into prominent subacute spines. Wings 

 subhyaline, veins piceous, the stigma, except the costal edge, pale brown. 



Hab. — Mexico. 



Described from one poor specimen lal)eled No. 4208*^', reared Aug. 

 29, 1887, from Mexican jumping beans, the seeds of a species of 

 Euphorbia inhabited by the hirvre of Carpocapm saltlhin-i. 



Subfamily VI. Pimplin^. 



Tribe II. Lwsonothii. 

 EL'SIMIIS Forster. 

 Eiisiinus aci*oba!«itlis sp. n. 



'^ . — Length 5.4 nini. Head, except occip.tt and a black spot enclosing ocelli 

 and extending forward to base of antennje, wholly yellow. Thorax (except 

 dorsum of metathorax) and legs yellow: scutellum yellow, the post-scutellum 

 with a line of the same color; metapleura entirely yellow. Abdomen black, all 

 the segments margined at apex with yellow, and the fourth, tifth and sixth seg- 

 ments at sides are ferruginous, the venter yellow; the antenna? are brown, the 

 two basal joints black above, white beneath ; clypeus separated. Wings hyaline, 

 subiridescent; stigma and veins brown; discal areolet oblique, incomplete, the 

 outer nervure being abbreviated ; tlie submedian cell is a little longer than the 

 median, the basal nervure strongly curved inwardly, the cubital nervure bent 

 before the middle, while the second recurrent nervure is half again as long as 

 the first. 



Hub. — Paxton, Ohio. 



Described from a single speciimcn lubcicd No. 4")"-, reared July 

 21, 1885, from Acrobads iiulu/iiie/lu Zell, sent to the Department 

 by Mr. John W. Spencer. 



ME^IKC'ITS Schimlte. 



IVIoiiisciiN dsiUrninsc sp. n. 



9. — Length <i nun.; ovii). I mm. Black: spot on face, clypeus, mandibles, a 

 spot between the mandibles and the eye, and the palpi, pale ferruginous or yel- 

 lowish : abbreviated orbital lines and a spot at summit of eyes, yellow: antennse 

 dark ferruginous, the two basal joints more or less black ; most of mesopleura 



