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vous; legs black, the anterior pair and the posterior tarsi withiii, clothed with 
pubescence somewhat similar to that on the cheeks, the rest of the legs clothed 
with pale pubescence: basal half of tarsal spurs reddish. Abdomen shining, 
very finely punctured, sparsely clothed with black hairs, the apical margin of 
the third, fourth and fifth segments above with a line of white pubescence, be- 
neath segments 2-5 densely clothed with long, pale pubescence, which is much 
darker than that on the apical inaigins of the segments above, the apical seg- 
ment beneath is clothed with long black pubescence. Length 14 — 15 mm. 
— Differs from the ? as follows: the front, face aiid clypeus is den.sely 
clothed with pale yellow pubescence: the anterior trochanters are armed with a 
stout tooth; the apical margins of the abdominal segments beneath on their 
apical margin with white pubescence: the last .segment strongly and roundly 
emarginate, its surface rugo.se. Length 14—15 mm. 
Four specimens, Kingston. 
This species seems to be related to M. singular is Or. from Cuba. 
Dedicated to Mr. T. C. Martindale, of tlie Acad, of Natural Sciences, 
Philadelphia. 
.Me$;acliile Poeyi (luer. 
Megnchile Poeyi Guer., Icon. Regu. Anim. iii, p. 4.50; La Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, 
Ins. p. 778, pi. xix, fig. 10. 
Six 9 specimens; Kingston. 
^le^acliile iiinlti<leiis n. sp. 
9 . — Black ; head very finely and closely punctured, front and vertex opaque : 
clypeus rather strongly punctured, with a longitudinal polished line medially. 
Antennae black, basal half of mandible.s, sides of face, front and cheeks, clothed 
with pale pubescence; dorsulum and scutellum finely and closely punctured; 
the suture between the dorsulum and scutellnm and the posterior margin of the 
latter, a line over the tegulse, the pleurae, metathorax and legs, clothed with pale 
pubescence, the dorsulum and scutellum are otherwise than the parts mentioned, 
uaked ; wings hyaline, nervures black, tegulae pale yellowish; legs black, the 
inner margin of the anterior tibiae and tarsi as well as the inner side of the pos- 
terior tarsi with brown hairs. Abdomen very finely punctured, a .spot on the 
side of the first, and the apical margin of segments 1-5 with pale pubescence, 
the pubescence sometimes interrupted medially, beneath thesegments are clothed 
with pale fuscous pubescence. Length 8 mm. 
'S • — The male varies in the color of the pubescence, it being usually pale or 
golden yellowish, but in some specimens it is colored as in the 9, and in the 
number of teeth on the last segment of the abdomen ; front and clypeus entirely 
covered with long pubescence. Antennae long, reaching to the metathorax, black ; 
legs black, clothed with pale pubescence, anterior coxae unarmed, last segment 
concave on each side of the. middle, covered with appressed ])ubescence, its apical 
margin strongly and roundly emarginate medially, with a long tooth or spine on 
each side, and with from one to five smaller teeth between the base and the 
tooth at the side of the emargination. Length 7 — 8 mm. 
Five 9 eight % specimens ; Kingston. 
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NOVEMBER, 1891. 
