no. 3603 HERMETIA — JAMES AND WIRTH 5 



Hermetia anthidium James, new species 

 Figure 1 



Female : Head black in ground color, copiously marked with yellow 

 as follows: a rounded, slightly elevated spot on each side of the ocellar 

 triangle and extending from the ocellar triangle to the eye margin; a 

 transverse area including the two segments of the frontal callus and 

 connecting them (but not as a callus), thence continuing as a narrow 

 ocular orbit on each side below the eye; and a broader median area 

 connecting broadly with the supra-antennal band and extending 

 ventrad around the antennal bases and over the midfacies to the oral 

 margin, becoming more whitish on the facial prominence ; these yellow 

 facial and supra-antennal areas isolate a broad, black, shining area on 

 each side that extends from just above the antenna to the oral margin. 

 Some short, stiff black pile on the ocellar triangle, that of head other- 

 wise longer and yellow, rather dense. Ante-ocellar tubercle prom- 

 inent, domelike, shining but with finely impressed, narrow striations 

 running transversely in the median line and concentrically on the 

 sides ; area on each side above frontal callus punctate and only slightly 

 rugulose and without distinct carinulae. Supra-antennal callus ob- 

 scure, almost obsolete. Head measurements : Head width 3.25 mm, 

 height 2.00 mm; frons at vertex 0.83 mm, at callus 1.33 mm; distance 

 between eyes at oral margin 1.08 mm. Pile of eyes rather short, 

 yellow, that above appearing black in some lights. Antenna as in 

 figure 1; first and second segments yellow, the first blackish above, 

 with black pile; flagellum brownish black, the style black, its acumi- 

 nate tip broadly white and sharply contrasting with the rest of the 

 flagellum; longitudinal groove of flagellum more conspicuous from 

 inner but also quite apparent from outer surface. Proboscis yellow, 

 the more strongly sclerotized areas black; pile yellow. 



Ground color of thorax mostly black; humerus, postalar callus, a 

 prealar spot on each mesopleuron, and apical two-fifths of scutellum 

 yellow; dorsal pile black except a median presutural vitta, a triangular 

 area on each side of it and reaching the humerus anteriorly, a trans- 

 verse area just before the suture and reaching medially almost to the 

 apex of the triangle on each side, a prescutellar band reaching from 

 one postalar callus to the other, and a narrow band along the margin 

 of the black area of the scutellum, golden; pile of metanotum black; 

 that of pleura largely black; that of propleura and prosternum, pos- 

 terior part of mesopleuron, most of sternopleuron, upper part of 

 metapleuron, and apex of squama whitish. Coxae, trochanters and 

 femora except extreme tips black, mostly black haired; tibiae and 

 tarsi pale yellow, becoming whitish at bases of tibiae and on tarsi, 

 white haired ; apical two tarsomeres on all legs yellow with yellow hair, 



