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Cuba: 2 males, 2 females (types of pulchra Cresson), ex Catopsilia 

 eubule,' north of Vinales, September 16, 1913, 1 female. 



SPILOCHALCIS PHOENICA, new species 



FiGuitEs 8, I, m; 12, e 



This species is intermediate in some respects between S. exomata 

 (Cresson) and S. nigricomis (Fabricius) but differs from the former 

 in having more than four teeth on the outer ventral margin of the 

 metafemur and from the latter in having two long, slender teeth on 

 the metafemur (fig. 12, e) while S. nigricomis has all the teeth blunt 

 (fig. 12, /). The male of this species differs from all other species 

 in the genus occurring in this area in that the mesal flange of the 

 antennal scape is produced ventrad of the antennal base (fig. 8, m) 

 and the frons is excavated tO' receive this projection. 



Description. — Red or yellow with black markings ; mesopraescutum 

 with narrow T-shaped mark, mesal margins of lobes of mesoscutum, 

 mesal angles of axillae, mesoscutellum with narrow, longitudinal 

 mark, apices of metacoxae, variable markings at outer ventral mar- 

 gins of metafemora, and apices of ovipositor sheaths, black. 



Female: 6.5-7 mm. Apex of antennal scape not quite reaching 

 level of ventral margin of anterior ocellus ; pedicel slightly less than 

 one-half length of segment 4 ; ring segment one-half length of pedicel, 

 flagellum slightly tapering, segments 4 to 10 equal in length, 11 to 13 

 slightly shorter, sutures rather indistinct; scrobe cavity moderately 

 deep, marginal carina vague except ventrad; interantennal projection 

 provided with a wide, thin apical lamina; lateral carinae almost 

 completely encircling compound eyes, somewhat indistinct on ventral 

 half ; frons scatteringly punctured on area surrounding scrobe cavity, 

 lightly shagreened ventrad of level of antennal bases; frontal ten- 

 torial pits at anterior margins of compound eyes and slightly ventrad 

 of level of antennal bases; width of malar space one-quarter height 

 of compound eye; frontogenal suture extending transversely from 

 compound eye to dorsal articulation of mandible; combined widths 

 of compound eyes slightly greater than width of frons at level of 

 antennal bases; diameter of posterior ocellus slightly greater than 

 one-half interocellar space. 



Dorsum of thorax densely and deeply pitted, areas between pits 

 minutely reticulated; anterolateral angles of pronotum strongly 

 carinate, anterior dorsal carina interrupted on mesal one-fifth; 

 parapsidal sutures partly obscured; prepectus usually entirely con- 

 cealed by an anterolateral angle of mesoscutum, occasionally partly 

 exposed, never reaching tegula; mesopleuron with two strongly 

 punctured areas, one dorsad of mesocoxa, other anterior and ventrad 

 of base of posterior wing; apex of mesoscutellum bidentate, these 



