ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. XXVU 



sembles //. modesta, but is remarkable for having but a single claw 

 on each tarsus; the smaller claw of the front and middle tarsi being 

 entirely obsolete. The hind claw is cleft near the tip as in //. Umhata 

 and modesta Hald., (singiilaris Burm.). 



Myodites 11 species; 5 new. The form of the first joint of the 

 hind tarsi readily distinguishes the species. 



Mr. E. T. Cresson exhibited a collection of Metopius belonging to 

 the American Entomological Society, and read descriptions of tea 

 new species, as follows : — 



Metopitis basalis.— 9 •— Deep black; margins of facial shield, spot 

 above, anterior orbits not reaching summit of eyes, anterior knees, their tibiae 

 before, stripe on anterior tibiae before, outer basal two-thirds of posterior 

 femora, broad apical margin of first abdominal segment and two spots at tip 

 of second segment, white; antennae nearly two-thirds the length of body, 

 .slender; wings fuliginous, hyaline at base of posterior pair; legs slender; 

 aljdomen unusually long, coarsely rugose, first segment subpyramidal in profile, 

 when viewed from behind the prominence is truncate. Length .80 inch! 

 Hah. — Florida. 



Ifletopins robustliS. — 9-— I^"bust, black; broad margins of facial 

 shield, spot between antennae, another on each side, scape beneath, scutellum, 

 postscutellum, short line beneath stigma, large spot on sides of pleura, two 

 spots on each side of meta thorax, spot on outer side of posterior coxae, their 

 trochanters, spot at extreme tip of their femora, first segment of abdomen 

 except base, apical margin of segments 2 — 4, broad on three and four, and 

 narrow apical margin of fifth segment, all white; antennae slender, about half 

 the length of the body; wings fuliginous, darker dn costal margin; posterior 

 legs robust, especially the femora; abdomen much thickened posteriorly, 

 rugose, first segment subpyramidal in profile, when viewed from behind the 

 prominence is bituberculate. Length .65 inch. 



Hah. — Maryland. 



Metopius iievadensii^. — 9 • — Black, opaque; lateral and basal margins 

 of. facial shield, spot between antennae, line on each side, scape beneath, lateral 

 margin of prothorax above, sometimes a spot on pleura, apical margin of 

 scutellum, spot on each side of metathorax, spot on four ptisterior coxre, their 

 trochanters, line on four anterior femora before, basal half of posterior pair, 

 all the tibiae and tarsi, first abdominal segment except base, a dot on apical 

 corners of second, and apical margin of segments 3 — 6, broad on four and 

 five, all yelIo\vish-wbite; antennae three- fourths the length of body, slender, 

 filiform, fulvous beneath; wings hyaline, tinged with yellowish; posterior 

 femora subrobust; abdomen rugose, first segment subpyramidal in profile, 



when viewed from behind the prominence is bituberculate. Length .55 



.60 inch. 



% . — Resembles the 9> except that the face entirely, labrum, spot on mandi- 

 bles, palpi, all the trochanters, and four anterior femora except line above, are 

 pale yellow. 



Hah. — Nevada. (Morrison). 



