58 E. T. CRESSON. 



spot near inferior margin, base and tips of their tibiae, and tips of tarsi, black ; 

 wings hyaline, costa yellow; apex of seutellum emarginate, subbilobate. Length 

 8 mill." 



Hab.— West Indies (Fabr.); Mexico (Sichel). 



Smicra Pylas, Walker, Entomologist, p. 337 ; List Chalcid. Brit. Mus. i, 

 p. 3. — " 9- — Yellow; head behind and between ocelli black; antennae piceous, 

 scape yellow ; mesothorax with a marginal abbreviated band in front, a narrow 

 dorsal stripe and a broad lateral stripe abbreviated posteriorly, black; seutel- 

 lum with basal margin and an obconical dorsal spot, black; paraptera with 

 two black spots ; second segment of abdomen with an obsolete fuscous band; 

 legs yellow; apex of tarsi fuscous; posterior eoxse spotted with black ; femora 

 with three piceous spots, armed with black teeth; wings hyaline. Length 2} 

 lines." 



Hab. — Mexico. Walker says this " hardly differs form punctata." 



Smicra amoena, Say, (Chalcis) Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 270. — " Body 

 yellow, slightly tinged with green; occiput and antennae, excepting basal joint 

 beneath, black; thorax quadrilinear with black, the intermediate lines conflu- 

 ent at middle and all united by a transverse line behind and by a slender trans- 

 verse line at the suture of the first segment, on which the lines do not extend ; 

 scutel with a longitudinal black line; metathorax, excepting at base, black; 

 petiole black, about one-third as long as abdomen ; each segment of abdomen 

 with a black band; pleura black, with about four yellow spots; posterior coxae 

 at tip, maculated band, inferior edge and tip of their femora, and tip and base 

 of their tibiae, black; femora about the size of abdomen, with six or eight large 

 prominent black spines, the superior one divided into three or four. Length 

 less than one-fifth of an inch." 



Hab. — " Indiana. Obtained from the pupa of a Thecla." 



Smicra Liamyrus, Walker, Entomologist, p. 337. — " $. — Yellow; head 

 black; antennae black, scape yellow; a subpentagonal black spot on disk of 

 mesothorax; seutellum with two elevated teeth at apex ; petiole long and slen- 

 der; abdomen yellow anteriorly, black posteriorly; posterior coxae very long, 

 apex piceous, as well as their trochanters ; their femora with nine minute black 

 teeth; their tibiae piceous at apex; wings obscure fuscous, apex subhyaline. 

 Length 3 lines." 



Hab. — Mexico. This seems closely allied to mivanda, which has 

 the whole of mesothorax and the seutellum except apical margin black 

 and the lower and lateral margins of face yellow. 



Smicra captiva, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i,p. 42. — " J — Yel- 

 low ; flagellum rufo-fuscous, tips of mandibles ferruginous ; a black vase shaped 

 outline on disk of mesothorax, and a black line each side; transverse black 

 line at base of seutellum, the latter with a pear shaped spot on middle and an 

 angular spot at lateral margins; pectus black at base of coxae and an oblong 

 black spot beneath wings ; wings hyaline ; apex of posterior coxae, a brown spot 

 on femora above and two on their sides beneath ; base and apex of ti biae reddish- 

 brown; margins of the abdominal segments narrowly bordered with reddish- 

 brown ; widening into spots at sides and on middle. Length 3 lines." 

 Hab. — Panama. 



