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45. Smicra tolteca, n. sp. 



9- — Pull luteous, slightly tinged with orange; excavation behind antennae, 

 and posterior margin of head, black; flagellum blackish, fulvous at tips, scape 

 yellow; mesothorax tinged with pale fulvous, with a sutural line each side, a 

 short bidentate band in front, an angular spot on disk (connected with the bi- 

 dentate band by a pale fulvous line), sutural line at base, a transverse spot near 

 apex of scutellum, and most of pleura, black ; apex of scutellum broadly, acute- 

 ly margined, slightly emarginate at middle ; metathorax coarsely reticulate, 

 with a short black line between it and the large lateral swelling ; wings yellow- 

 ish-hyaline; legs luteous-yellow, posterior pair darker, their coxae with a dusky 

 stripe within and a faint fulvous stain on outer side; posterior femora varied 

 with fuscous within, the teeth numerous, small and black; their tibiae dusky at 

 base; abdomen elongate, fusiform, acuminate at tip, tinged with fulvous, base 

 of first segment, and band at base of second, yellowish; petiole short, yellowish. 

 Length .30 inch. 



Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen. In some 

 specimens the mesothorax will doubtless be ornamented as in monte- 

 zuma. 



4(5. Smicra nigropicta. 



Smicra ?iigropicta, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 95. 

 Hah. — Cuba. Ten % 9 specimens. Lemon-yellow; antennas, ante- 

 rior and posterior margins of, and three longitudinal marks on meso- 

 thorax, anterior suture of pleura, spot on scutellum, a transverse black 

 mark at base of metathorax, large spot on posterior coxae, tips of their 

 tibiae, and dorsal bands on the abdomen, black; wings hyaline ; femoral 

 teeth numerous, small and black ; scutellum unarmed. Length .20 — 

 .30 inch. 



47. Smicra mirabilis, n. sp. 



% ■ — Lemon-yellow; spot between ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, anten- 

 11 re above, spot on middle of prothorax, three stripes on mesothorax — the central 

 one confluent with a transverse band on anterior margin and also with a band di- 

 lated laterally, before scutellum— an elongate cuneiform mark on disk of scutel- 

 lum, a large elongate quadrate spot on middle of metathorax, a mark beneath an- 

 terior coxae, spot on each side of pleura, and a large spot on posterior coxae above, 

 all black; thorax with large dense punctures and with sparse, erect black pub- 

 escence; wings hyaline; a spot on extreme tips of posterior femora covering 

 also base of their tibiae, pale fuscous ; femoral teeth numerous and minute ; ab- 

 domen small, not larger than posterior femora, subcompressed, honey-yellow, 

 second and following segments each with a transverse dorsal black spot; peti- 

 ole short, lemon-yellow. Length .22 inch. 



Hah. — Georgia (Blake) ; Texas (Belfrage). Four % specimens. 

 Closely allied to nigropicta, from which it may be distinguished by the 

 black mark on metathorax being longitudinal instead of transverse, as 

 in that species. 



