92 E. T. CRESSON. 



racica Cress., which, however, has fulvous pubescence on thorax and 

 on first abdominal segment above, and fuscous wings. 



Jflelecta Edwards^ii. — % . — Robust, black ; head clothed with long black 

 pubescence, mixed with pale on occiput: antennae about as long as head and 

 thorax, rather slender, flagellum brownish beneath; thorax above and an- 

 terior margin of pleura clothed with a long dense pale ochraceous pubescence, 

 elsewhere it is black; scutellum with a long acute spine on each side; wings 

 faintly dusky on apical margin; legs entirely black, at base of outer spur on 

 posterior tibise a short subacute tooth; abdomen short-ovate, convex, shining, 

 clothed with short black pubescence; venter shining. Length .50 inch. 



Ilah. — California, (H. Edwards). One specimen. Kather more 

 robust than j^'f'^if^^^' ^^^ distinguished by the longer antennae, by 

 the long sharp spines on scutellum, and by the anterior margin of 

 the pleura being clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence as on 

 thorax above. 



Stelis ailStralis.— 9 • — Black, strongly punctured, confluently on head 

 and thorax and sparsely on occiput and abdomen; face and sides of thorax 

 clothed with a rather dense pale pubescence ; anterior orbits, dot above summit 

 of eyes, mandibles, scape beneath, line on lateral margin of mesothorax, 

 slightly broader and arcuated anteriorly, sides of scutellum broadly, tegulae, 

 tubercles, and a broad fascia on each side of abdominal segments 1 — 5, all 

 sanguineous; tubercles flat, the anterior edge straight and slightly reflexed ; 

 scutellum truncate behind; wings smoky-hyaline, much darker in marginal 

 cell and apical margin; second recurrent nervure passing beyond tip of second 

 submarginal cell; legs short robust, clothed with short pale pubescence, knees, 

 tibiae and tarsi pale ferruginous, posterior tibiae with an outer darker line; 

 abdomen short, robust, convex, shining, apex more closely punctured, rounded ; 

 venter sparsely pubescent. Length .40 inch. 



Hub. — Georgia, (Morrison). One specimen. This fine species 

 has much the appearance of an Anthklium, but the venter is with- 

 out a seopa. i ■ 



Stelis laticiucta. — 9- — Black; head and thorax closely and strongly 

 punctured; broad anterior orbits, dot on each .side of clypeus, interrupted line 

 behind eyes, broad transverse line on occiput, line on lateral margin of 

 mesothorax curved anteriorly, broad line on posterior margin of scutellum, 

 tubercles, large indented spot on pleura anteriorly, spot beneath posterior 

 wings, knees, and line on anterior tibiae yellow; tegulae brown, broadly yellow 

 anteriorly; wings tinged with fuscous, darker along costa, second recurrent 

 nervure uniting with the third transverse cubital nervure; abdomen convex, 

 shining, sparsely punctured, a broad continuous fulvous yellow band on middle 

 of segments 1 — 5. Length .32 inch. 



Hub. — California, (H. Edwards). One specimen. 



Stelis? Ilitida. — 9- — Black, shining, sparsely and rather finely punc- 

 tured, clothed with erect pale glittering pubescence; face finely and closely 

 punctured; head as wide as thorax, transverse; mandibles ratlier broad at tip, 

 tridentate; ocelli placed in a triangle; antennae filiform, scape cylindrical; 



