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tibiae fuscous beneath; wings hyaline ; % abdomen sometimes fuscous, banded 

 with fulvous at base. Length 2J lines." 



Hab. — St. Vincent's Island, West Indies. 



Smiera transitiva, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i, p. 371. — " £ . 

 — Luteous ; head black about the ocelli; thorax with a dilated black line; 

 scutellum with two luteous spots and a hindward transverse luteous line; scu- 

 tellum bidentate ; metathorax black; petiole tawny, nearly half the length of 

 abdomen; abdomen black, acutely conical, tawny at base; hind coxae black 

 towards tips; hind femora with three black spots, armed with four large black 

 teeth; wings dark cinereous. Length 3 lines." 



Hab. — East Florida. This seems allied to pulchra, Cress., from 

 Cuba and Mexico. 



Smiera abdominalis. Walker, Jour. Entom. i. p. 177.— "% .—Luteous ; 

 head black behind; antennae black, tips and scape luteous; prothorax black 

 along fore border; disks of scutum and parapsides black; scutellum unarmed, 

 black along fore and hind border; paraptera and metathorax black; petiole 

 long, black ; abdomen piceous above, with a yellow middle band ; hind coxse 

 black above; hind femora minutely dentate, with a black spot on each disk and 

 with black tips ; wings brownish, cinereous towards tips. Length 2£ lines. 



Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico. Seems closely allied to ambiijua. 



Smiera stibpunetata. Walker, Ent. Mag. ii, p. 25.— "£ £ .— Yellow ; 

 head beneath with a black band; antennas fuscous, fulvous beneath; meso- 

 thoracic scutum black anteriorly, with a central black stripe; parapsides and 

 paraptera spotted with black; the spots between scutum and scutellum connec- 

 ted ; scutellum with a black spot ; pectus with two black spots; metathoracic 

 scutellum with a black band; petiole half the length of abdomen; abdomen 

 fulvous, with five dorsal black spots and apex black, first segment yellow; legs 

 yellow; posterior coxas with black spots ; posterior femora with base beneath 

 and apex black, armed with fourteen black teeth; posterior tibise at base, apex 

 and beneath fuscous; wings hyaline; % abdomen sometimes fulvous, banded 

 with fuscous. Length 2\ lines." 



Hab. — St. Vincent's Island, West Indies. 



Smiera inaculata, Fabr. {Chalcis) Ent. Syst. ii, p. 198. Walk. Entomolo- 

 gist, p. 217. 



Hab. — " Cayenne." (Fabr); " New York" (Walk.). According to 

 Walker's description, this is closely allied, if not identical, with bracata, 

 Sanborn. 



Smiera nigrieornis, Fabr. (Chalcis) Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 243. 



Hab. — North America. This seems also closely allied to bracata, 

 the short, meagre description of Fabricius applying much better to this 

 latter species, than does that of maculata. 



Smiera pmietata, Fabr. (Chalcis) Ent. Syst. ii, p. 196. Sichel (Conura) 

 Ann. Soc. Fr. 4 ser. v, p. 392.— " 9 .—Yellow ; antennas black, scape yellow; 

 three triangular spots on disk of mesothorax, large spot on apex of scutellum, 

 and a transverse fascia on each side of pleura, black ; abdomen yellow with 

 luscous spots; base and tips of posterior femora (which are 12-dentate), and a 



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