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the legs is more nearly orange. The pubescence is white, very short, 

 and sparse. The swelling at the base of the second sternite is less 

 evident than is usual in this genus. The sixth tergite is coarsely 

 punctate with a slight tendency to become rugose at the apex. It 

 bears a slight but evident median carina and along the lateral borders 

 are numerous coarse, stiff hairs. The sixth sternite is also slightly 

 carinate on the median line and is covered with uniform shallow 

 punctures, among which, toward the apex, are numerous coarser 

 ones. 



Length, 19 mm. Described from a single female taken at Piura, 

 Peru, by Townsend, April 28, 1911. 



Tyye (female).— Cat. No. 40850, U.S.N.M. 



STICTIA CARBONARIA (Burmeister) 



Moiiedula carhonaria Bubmeisteb, Bol. Acad. Nac. Cordova, vol. 1, 1874, p. 

 113. — Handlersch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Matli.-Nat. CI., vol. 99, 

 1890, p. 102.— Daula Tokkb, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 497. 



I have at hand two females of this species determined by Hand- 

 lirsch. On one specimen the sides of the thorax are entirely black, 

 except for a very narrow line on the border of the prothorax below 

 the tubercles. On the other specimen these same lines below the 

 tubercles are present and also a minute spot below the wings on the 

 mesothorax. On this latter specimen there is a trace of color on the 

 posterior border of the pronotum, but on both specimens the tubercles 

 are black as is likewise the scutum. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Brazil: Ihering, Rio Grande (Det. Handlirsch). 



Handlirsch reports this species from Parana and Montevideo, and 

 cites Burmeister as reporting it from Corrientes and Rio Quaia- 

 quiraro. 



STICTIA ARCUATA (Burmeister) 



Moncdula punctata var. arcuata Taschenberg, Zeitschr. f. d. g. Nat., vol. 2, 



1870, p. 22. 

 Monedula arcuata Burmeister, Bol. Acad. Cordova, vol. 1, 1874, p. 112. — 



Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 99, 1890, 



p. 104.— DALI.A Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 496. 



I have before me two females of this species determined by Hand- 

 lirsch. The prothorax, exclusive of the broad fascia on the prono- 

 tum including the tubercles, is entirely black. The scutum, the meso- 

 pleura, the metapleura, and the side of the propodeum, exclusive of 

 the posterior lateral angles, are also black. The scutellum on its 

 anterior border bears a broad fascia narrowly interrupted at the 

 midline. The metanotum is almost wholly yellow and there is a 

 broad curved fascia on the propodeum and its posterior lateral angles 



