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the fact that the first tergite bears a pair of U-shaped maculations 

 whose open ends are approximated and by the fact that the fasciae 

 on the remaining tergites, though interrupted at mid line, are never 

 broken into discal or lateral spots. 



SPBCIMHNS BXAMINEO 



Bahamas: Andreas Island (J. J. Northrop). 



Bolivia: Herachi Beni (Septeml>er, W. M. Mann) ; Rurrenabaque, Beni (Octobir, 



W. M. Mann). 

 Brazil: Ceara-Mirim (W. M. Mann): Flores (November 15, 1919, Parish); 



Itacoatira (November 22, 1919, Parish) ; Manaos (Mann, Baker) ; Matto 



Grosso; Obido.s (August 10, 1919, Parish) ; Para (Mrs. H. B. Merrill). 

 Beitish Guiana (April 9, 1901, R. J. Crew). 

 Costa Rica: San Carlos (Sckleld and Burgdorf). 

 Cuba: Baracoa (Augu.^^t. 1901, A. Busck) ; Cabanas (May 18. Palmer and 



Riley). 

 Ecuador (C. T. Baker). 

 Florida. 



Guatemala: Los Amates f February 7, 1905). 

 Honduras: La Ceiba (April 8, 1916, F. J. Dyer). 

 Mexico: Coazacoalcos (December, 1898, C. C. Deam) ; Rosario, Sinaloa (B. P. 



Clark) ; Santa Lucretia, Vera Cruz (F. Knab). 

 Panama: Alhajuelo (April 10, 1911, A. Busck) ; Taboga Island (February 



16. 1912, A. Busck) ; Tabernilhi (A. Busck) ; Old Panama (January 31, 



1911, A. Busck). 

 Paraguay: Sapucay (April 8, 190:^. W. T. Foster). 

 PEasu: Lima (December 21. 1912, C. H. T. Townsend). 

 San Salvador: Coekburntowu (P. Bartsch). 

 Surinam. 

 VENEzuEa^: Rio Moto, Cuara District (October 9, M. A. Carricker). 



STICTIA DECORATA (Bnrmeister) 



Monedula punotata var. decorara TAscHENBEaiG, Zeitschr. f. d. ger. Nat, 1870, 



p. 22. 

 Monedula decorata Burmhister, Bol. Acad. Cordoba, vol. 1, 1874, p. 144. — Hand- 



LiRscH, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. GL, vol. 99, 1890, p. 105.— 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 497. — Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. 



Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol 104, 1895, p. 968. 



I have at hand a single male of this handsome species determined 

 by Kohl. The clypeus and labrum are wholly yellow ; the yellow on 

 the scutum is confined to short, narrow lateral lines above the base 

 of the wings; the fasciae on tergites 1-5 are well developed and are 

 narrowly interrupted at midline; tergite 6 bears small lateral spots: 

 stemites 2-5 bear broad fasciae narrowed at midline; sternite 6 

 bears small lateral spots. Segment 6 of the flagellum is only moder- 

 ately excavated below and at the apex bears below a single short but 

 distinct spine. The lateral spines of the seventh tergite can not be 

 said to be truncate, but at the end they are sloping and terminate in 

 a blunt, rounded point. 



