60 E. T. CRESSON. 



anieter from posterior margin of head, and twice that distance from base of man- 

 dibles; cheeks and thorax at sides coarsely reticulated ; tliorax elongate, narrowed 

 posteriorly, the metathorax rounded behind ; the stigmatic tubercles prominent, 

 forming, with the large tooth on each side about the middle, three obtuse promi- 

 nent tubercles; abdomen long, ovate, first segment subquadrate, subnodose, al- 

 most asbroad as base of second segment, subconstricted at apex, the four narrow 

 smooth polished lines on second segment impunctate; second ventral segment 

 deeply but not closely punctured. 



Velvety black; head with a small arcuate pale golden line on disk above; a 

 narrow silvery pubescent stripe on each side of thorax above, straight on meta- 

 thorax, but curved outwardly and broadened forward of posterior tubercle, but 

 not reaching the prothorax ; viewed laterally the stripe is regularly arched ; 

 flanks of metathorax with lower half silvery; legs with scattered pale iiubes- 

 cence ; calcaria black ; sides of first segment silvery, and a silvery spot on apical 

 middle and on extreme sides of segments 2-5, forming three stripes, one on middle 

 and one on each side; sides of second segment with a double line of pale ))ubes- 

 cence ; on the apical third of second segment two narrow, transverse, smooth, 

 polished, dull yellow lines, nearly meeting on disk, and at base two narrow longi- 

 tudinal lines of same color, each placed opposite the silvery spot on sides of first 

 segment, and reaching nearly the middle of the segment; apical segment with 

 a yellowish pubescent spot on middle; venter with segments 2-4 fringed at apex 

 with pale pubescence. 



Minas, Car. This is much like indica, but easily separated by 

 the prominent subacute tooth on each side of the thorax (between 

 the two stigmatic tubercles which are also prominent), not seen in 

 iacllca; the pale thoracic stripes are broader and dilated anteriorly, 

 and the smooth pale transversely linear spots or lines on .second 

 segment of abdomen are longer and more slender ; while the calcaria 

 are black. In indica the head has a broad conspicuous arcuated 

 silveiy pubescent band from eye to eye. 



78. M. teiiiulata 9 •^■Length 20-22 mm. — Same form as grnphica Gerst. 

 Velvety black ; cheeks up as far as the eyes silvery or pale golden pubescent ; an 

 arcuate band on vertex from eye to eye of golden pubescence ; thorax with two 

 iiroad golden or fulvous pubescent stripes, broadened on each side of niesotboi'ax, 

 slightly curved and narrowed to a point on prothorax; lower margin of flanks 

 densely pale golden pubescent; the legs with pale pubescence, black at tips of 

 femora; calcaria pale; sides of first abdominal segment pale golden pubescent; 

 two narrow, longitudinal, smooth polished, yellow spots at base of second seg- 

 ment, and two narrow, transver.se, almost contiguous spots of same kind and 

 color, slightly recurved on discal end, near apex of this segment; a spot on ajiical 

 middle of segments 2-5, a spot on extreme sides of 2 and 3, and sometimes 

 obscurely on 4, lateral margin of segment2 and apical margin of ventral segments 

 2 and 3, all of pale golden pubescence; apical segment above pale golden, black 

 on the sides. 



Chapada. A larger and stouter species than indica, and easily 



