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pedicel longer than joints 1-3 of funicle combined, these joints 

 subquadrate; face as liigh as antennal fossa granular, above this 

 shining, indistinctly sculptured; median lobe of mesoscutum, lateral 

 lobes in part, axillae and scutellum reticulated with fine impressed 

 lines; scutellum at base with two triangular depressed areas (adventi- 

 tious?); mesopleursB and prepectus finely Uneolated; femora green, 

 tibijB dark brown, anterior tibise in front and their tarsi testaceous; 

 middle and liind tarsi at base as dark as their tibise; wings smoky, 

 with hyaline bases and at apical half of marginal vein a hyahne area 

 extending backward somewhat more than the length along marginal 

 vein; on caudal margin of fore wing almost opposite this hyaline 

 area, but slightly more toward apex of wing, another somewhat 

 smaller hyaline spot; infuscation beyond end of marginal vein lighter 

 than basad of tliis point; submarginal vein longer than the marginal 

 and postmarginal combined; marginal vein somewhat longer than 

 postmarginal, tliis in tm'n slightly longer than stigmal; abdomen 

 finely reticulated with impressed lines. 



Male.— Length, about 2 nam. Similar to the female, the head and 

 thorax green, the scape entirely testaceous, sculpture of face stronger, 

 that above antennal fossa almost as strong as below, but more like 

 reticulations; sculpture of mesonotum stronger than in female; 

 wings with an infuscated spot covering stigmal vein and extending 

 about half way across wing; near apex of submarginal vein a small 

 indistinct infuscated spot; front and middle legs, including apices of 

 coxae, testaceous; front femora with a green stripe behind; front 

 tibiae, middle femora and middle tibiae with a brown stripe behind; 

 hind legs dark brown, the femora and tibiae with a narrow testaceous 

 i stripe in front; first, fourth, and fifth joints of hind tarsi dark brown, 

 joints 2 and 3, wliitish. 



Habitat — Koulikoro, French Soudan, Africa. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14343, U.S.N.M. 



Eight females and five males reared from the eggs of Cerina huty- 

 rospermi Vuillet by llr. Jean Vuillet, in whose honor the species is 

 named; sent by Mr. A. VuiUet of the Entomological Station of the 

 University of Rennes, France. 



The species is pecufiar in having the mesonotimi entirely without 

 thimble-like punctures. 



ANASTATUS COLEMANl, new species. 



Fejmle.— Length about 3.5 mm. Head green, the face metaUic 

 reddish; punctured portion of median lobe and lateral lobes of 

 mesoscutum bronzy, rest of median lobe bluish-green; scutellum 

 bronzy; rest of thorax and legs varying shades of bronzy or purplish; 

 knees, tarsi and anterior and middle legs in front reddish testaceous, 

 the middle legs less so than the anterior; abdomen aeneous with a 

 white band near apex of first segment; face below antenna roughened 

 and laterad, granular; above, reticulated with impressed lines; scape 



