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depressed, dorsal segments black, their sides whitish, two apical segments fer- 

 ruginous; ventral segments pale, varied on each aide with blackish. Length 

 .35 inch. 



%• — Shining black; clypeus, mandibles and palpi, pale testaceous; antennae 

 black, shorter than thorax, with seventeen rays on each side and a simple ter- 

 minal joint, basal joint beneath testaceous; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures 

 and base of stigma dusky, the former pale at base, posterior wings slightly 

 dusky; legs whitish, tarsal claws blackish; abdomen ovate, depressed, extreme 

 apex, above and beneath, ferruginous. Length .27 inch. 



Hab.— Cuba. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) 



LiOphyrus Tnlvas Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, 86.— " J.— Length 

 0.30; br. wings 0.65 inch. — Antennae thirteen-jointed, black. Color yellow- 

 brown; a lunate mark through ocelli, touching base of each antenna, scutel, 

 metathorax and band on first segment of tergum, spot on breast and lower 

 half of venter, black; legs pale yellowish, tarsi tipped with black, hinder 

 tarsi darkest; wings faintly smoky. Antennae short, quite thickened in middle, 

 tapering to ends, subserrate beneath; head not as wide as thorax ; body quite 

 Btout; spurs simple; lanceolate cell of wings closed in middle, subpetiolate, 

 without oblique cross-line." 



Uab. — Texas. (Coll. Am. Eot. Soc.) Belongs to subgenus Monoc- 

 tenus Dahlb. 



Lijda apicalis Westwood, Thesaurus Ent. Oxon. Ill, pi. 20, fig. 8.— 

 "%. — Luteo- fulvous, punctured, varied with black; wings honey-yellow; head 

 fulvous, vertex with a large trifid spot united above the clypeus, two spots 

 behind the eyes and the posterior margin, black; mesonotum black, varied 

 with fulvous; tegulae fulvous; four basal segments of abdomen luteo-fulvous, 

 the two anterior with a large median spot, the third and fourth with a narrow 

 transverse basal band interrupted at middle, and with the remainder of the 

 segments black, with the sides irregularly luteous; antennae long, very slender, 

 thirty-eight-jointed, fulvous, basal joint thicker, with a median black spot, 

 apices fuscescent; legs luteo-fulvous, femora above black, the posterior pair 

 darker; stigma of anterior wings brown-fulvous; clypeus and mandibles buff, 

 tips of latter black; remaining parts of the mouth buff. Length .10 lines." 

 Hub. — North America. 



liyda Poppigii Brischke & Zaddach, Schr. phys.-oken Ges. zu Konigsb. 

 vi, (1865), 123. — 9- — I^ull black; head coarsely punctured; antennae slender, 

 about thirty-four-jointed, third joint more than twice longer than fourth; 

 wings fuliginous, with a strong aeneous reflection, nervures black, second 

 branchial cell \eithout cross-nervure; anterior tibiae each with one side spur; 

 abdomen broad, ferruginous, basal plates, and most of the last three ventral 

 segments black. Length .50 inch. 



Hab. — Georgia, (Berlin Museum) ; North Carolina, (Morrison ; 

 Coll. Am. P^nt. Soc.) This is closely allied to bicolorata Norton. 



liyda chicontimiensis Huart, Can. Nat. xi, 149. — " 9 -—Length .50 

 inch. — Black ; basal third of antennae, an elongate, oblique smooth raised spot 

 nearly touching the eye with its outer end, above the insertion of each antenna, 

 the mandibles, and the legs, reddish-yellow; a dot above each eye, a line on 



