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WILLIAM J. FOX. 
<>|>lii<»n flavii!« Fahr. 
Ichneumon flavns Fahr.. Ent. S.vst. ii, p. 179. 
Ophion _fl(ivus Fahr., Ent. Syst. Siippl. p. 2.36; Guer., Gen. des Ins. Hymen, 
pi. iii, 2e, liv., No. 7. 
Nunieroiis specimens; Port Antonio. 
chalcidid.p:. 
^iinicra iii^ropiola Or. 
Smicra nigropicta Cr., Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliila., iv, p. 95. 
Several specimens ; Port Antonio. 
('lia)ciK iiicertiis Cr. 
Chalch incertns Cr., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., iv, p. lOI. 
One Specimen ; Port Antonio. 
SCOLIID.E. 
.ll.yziiie iiitida Sin. 
Myzine nitkla Sm., Catal. Hym. Brit. Mas. iv, p. 77. % ; Cress., Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phila., iv, p. 113, 'J, . 
9- — Black, sparsely clothed with pale hairs; scape of antenuse, basal half of 
mandibles, tegulae and legs, except coxfe, rufous; clypeus, two spots above the 
antenme sometimes confluent, a spot before anterior ocellus, a line on inner orbits, 
which converges on the vertex, the cheeks entirely so, being connected by a line 
extending across the occiiuit, an interrupted line on anterior portion of protho- 
rax, an abbreviated line before its posterior margin, a large spot on dorsulum. a 
spot before the tegulae, two large spots on the pleura, the anterior spot elongate, 
somewhat emarginate on its posterior margin, basal half of scutellum, postscu- 
tellum, a large spot on each side of metathorax, which is acutely and deeply 
emarginate anteriorly, and a medial line above, most of the coxae, a large spot on 
each side of the abdominal segments 1-5 above, a broad band on segments 1-3 
beneath, that on the first segment emarginate medially on its posterior margin, 
the one on the two next segments interrupted medially, all yellow; flagellum 
testaceous, front strongly punctured, the i)unctures becoming spai-se towards the 
vertex, which is shining. Prothorax rather strongly and closely punctured, on 
the sides of the thorax beneath the wings, the punctures are stronger and more 
widely separated, the rest of thorax very sparsely punctured ; metathorax above 
with exceedingly fine punctures, on the sides transversely striated, the striations 
becoming almost obliterated on the posterior face ; wings hyaline, nervures and 
stigma Ijlack ; outer margin of posterior tibiae with a row of strong, short spurs. 
Abdomen smooth, shining, with a few sparse punctures about the middle of the 
segments, each of the segments with a transverse row of punctures, before their 
api(ral margin, the last segment is finely and longitudinally striated, bronzy in 
certain lights, beneath the abdomen is ob.scurely rufous. Length 13 mm. 
Port Antonio ; Annotto Bay. Three 9 and nuinerons S speci- 
mens. 
