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teeth numerous, small and black; tarsi pale orange-yellow; abdomen long, 

 fusiform, acuminate at tip in 9 , short, ovate in % ; petiole short, stout. Length 

 .26— .36 inch. 



Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Five % 9 specimens. 



32. Smiera intermedia. 



Smicra intermedia, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 92. 



Hab. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. Yellowish- 

 ferruginous ; abdomen scarlet; vertex, occiput, cheeks, antennae, te- 

 gulae, four anterior legs, posterior coxae above and their tibias and tar- 

 si, black; wings fusco-hyaline. Length .25 inch. 



33. Smiera ignea. 



Smiera ignea, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 92. 



Hab. — Texas; Cuba. Ileddish-orange ; flagellum, central stripe on 

 mesothorax, a small spot on each side of it, as well as the anterior and 

 posterior margins, a central spot on posterior coxae above and the ex- 

 treme tip of abdomen, black; wings hyaline; abdomen elongate, acu- 

 minate and pointed; petiole short, pale yellow. Length .25 inch. 



34. Smiera miranda, n. sp. 



% . — Pale lemon -yellow ; head black, a short line on anterior orbits, cheeks, 

 and mandibles yellow ; antennae black, scape dull yellowish, compressed and 

 carinate beneath near apex ; mesothorax transversely wrinkled, black, as well 

 as scutellum except apex, which is bituberculate as in coccinata ; tegulse pale 

 luteous; wings blackish, apical third hyaline; extreme tips of posterior coxas, 

 their trochanters, the numerous, minute femoral teeth, and tips of their tibiae 

 black; abdomen black, smooth and polished, subglobose, yellowish at base; 

 petiole long, slender, nearly as long as posterior coxae, lemon-yellow. Length 

 .30 inch. 



Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen. This beauti- 

 ful species is shaped and sculptured precisely like coccinata, and may 

 prove to be the % of Lamyrvs, Walker. 



35. Smiera Eubule. 



Smiera Eubule, Poey MS.— Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 93. 

 Hab. — Cuba. Four specimens. Luteous; vertex, antennae, spot on 

 each side of prothorax, most of mesothorax, large triangular spot on 

 scutellum, apical half of posterior coxae and spots on their femora, dull 

 ferruginous; scutellum and metathorax each with two acute spines; 

 posterior femora armed beneath with four large teeth, the basal one 

 very stout; wings subhyaline ; sometimes the prothorax above, the 

 mesothorax and scutellum are entirely brownish and the posterior coxae 

 rufous except extreme base. Length .35 inch. This species destroys 

 the larvae of Callidrt/as Eubule. 



36. Smiera dorsal a. n. sp. 



9-" — Bright lemon-yellow; space behind antennae, vertex, occiput, scape be- 

 hind, flagellum, spot on disk of prothorax, mesothorax except broad lateral mar- 



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