52 E. T. CRESSON. 



angular, and the other at tip, outer side with lower edge and a short 

 oblique streak below the middle, black, the teeth small, irregular, tipped 

 with black; posterior tibiae with a blackish streak behind, not reach- 

 ing apex ; abdomen with broad black bands, first segment with two 

 large black spots at base; petiole about two-thirds the length of posterior 

 coxae, black at tip. Length .35 inch. This is a near ally to azteca, 

 but the posterior legs are differently marked. 



43. S in i era Icuta, n. sp. 



% . — Head lemon-yellow, vertex tinged with fulvous, as well as back of head, 

 the posterior margin of which is black; antennas fulvous, paler at tips, scape 

 yellow beneath ; prothorax fulvous, varied with yellow, a black spot on each side 

 beneath lateral angle; mesothorax brown, with four yellow lines, two on each 

 side, approximate, and all connected with the yellow posterior margin; scutellum 

 yellow, with a large rounded, central, reddish-brown spot, the apex produced, 

 subbilobate, blackish ; metathorax coarsely reticulated, black, with a broad 

 basal yellow band; pleura black, with two yellow spots beneath tegulse, which 

 is yellow, pupilled with brown; wings yellow-hyaline, apex clear hyaline; 

 legs lemon-yellow ; posterior coxse fulvous above, black within, with a short 

 slender blackish line on outer side, distinct at base and gradually fading 

 towards apex ; posterior femora lemon-yellow, with a broad median fulvous 

 band, irregular in outline and dilated on upper edge, a black spot on extreme 

 tips, inner side blackish, two spots near apex and lower margin yellow, the 

 teeth numerous, small, black ; posterior tibiae yellow, varied with fulvous ; ab- 

 domen pale yellow, varied with fulvous before apex ; petiole very short, stout, 

 yellow. Length .22 inch. 



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



44. Smicra maria>. 



Chalcis marice, Riley, Fourth Annual Report, Nox. Ins. Mo. p. 109, fig. 39. £ 9 • 

 Hab. — N. Y., D.C., Ky., La. Eighth 9 specimens examined. This 

 pretty little species has been bred from the cocoons of Attacus Polyphe- 

 mus and Promethea. It may be recognised by the following charac- 

 ters : — Lemon-yellow ; head with an arcuate black mark behind anten- 

 nae, connected with a short longitudinal line to lower ocellus and then 

 to back of head which is margined with black ; antennae black or brown, 

 scape yellow beneath ; a spot on anterior middle of prothorax, three 

 stripes on mesothorax, connected before and behind by the sutural 

 line, a spot on each side over tegulae, a central stripe on scutellum, 

 basal and lateral margins of metathorax, a spot on apical middle and 

 two oblique stripes on each side of pleura, all black; mesothorax with 

 the central black line depressed and transversely striated ; wings 

 hyaline ; a broad stripe on outer side of posterior coxae, their extreme 

 tips, their trochanters, the minutely dentate edge of their femora and 

 six narrow bands on abdomen, black; petiole very short in 9 , longer 

 in % , tipped with black; abdomen of 9 long, fusiform, acuminate at 

 apex, of % short, ovate. Length .15 — .25 inch. 



