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vous. behind each eye are three black dots set on a pale {irouiid and two more 

 are faintly indicated at the middle; scntelhim fulvous brown, clouded with 

 darker and marked by five marjjinal and two basal whitish spots; pectoral 

 pieces and a spot on the anterior coxse black, tlie former edjied with pale. Legs 

 white dotted with brown, forming three or four longitudinal lines on the femora ; 

 tergum blackish with a pale spot on each side of the tw'o posteiior segments; 

 venter dark brown, becoming whitish posteriorly, connexivuni pale with a brown 

 dot and dusky edge to eacli segment. Elytra semi-pellucid, tinged with smoky- 

 fulvous, a large cloud on the base, a smaller one on the base of the antiapical 

 areoles, a common oval spot on the commissural margin near the tip of the 

 clavus and a round dot anterior to this a little within the pale commissural ner- 

 vure, white; nervures and claval suture brown, the former concolorous on the 

 white basal patch ; middle antiapical areole extended basally more than in lu- 

 ridus. Wings faintly smoky, nervures strong, brown ; last ventral segment long, 

 with a small subacute median tooth either side of which the hind edge is straight 

 and a little retreating to the square lateral angles; disc brown, the posterior 

 margin pale; pygofers stout, slightly exceeded by the brown oviduct, pale 

 whitish with a brown cloud on either side, and a smaller one at the base of the 

 ovipositor, and dotted at the base of the scattering pale bristles. 



North Carolina. Collected on Mt. Balsam, July 23, 1890, by 

 Mr. W. J. Palmer, Jr., of this city, to whom I am indebted for a 

 number of interesting species from the mountains about Asheville, 

 N. C. In the present species the outer angles of the ultimate ven- 

 tral segment of the female are less rounded and the hind edge is 

 straighter and more retreating with the sides shorter than in luridus, 

 subceneits and pictus. 



4. Thamiioteftix iiioriiata n. sp.— Allied to Th. melauogaxter Prov., 

 but larger and wanting the tour conspicuous black spots on the anterior margin 

 of the head; pale yellowish or greenish white: tergum, at least in part, a few 

 marks on the base of the vertex and pectoral pieces, and a spot at the base of the 

 antennae black. Length 5. — 5.5 mm. 



Female. — Vertex flat, with the anterior edge rather sharp, one-half longer on 

 the middle than next the eye. apex subacute; ocelli and one or two nearly obso- 

 lete wHvy lines along the anterior edge, brown; clypeus and front about as in 

 melanogaster. Elytra semi-pellucid, apex slightly enfumed, nervures slender; 

 wings white, tergum black, the broad lateral margin and narrow hind edge of 

 some of the segments yellow, apical segment yellow, with a transverse black me- 

 dian band and brown base, genital segment yellow, black at base ; venter pale, 

 with a triangular spot at base more or less extended, and the suture of the con- 

 nexivuni slenderly, black : pectoral pieces marked w'ith a black cloud of variable 

 extent, tips of the tarsal joints and a series of dots at the base of the tibial 

 spines brown. Ultimate ventral segment long, hind edge truncated or slightly 

 waved. The lateral angles are sotnetimes moderately produced, and at the middle 

 may be a brown spot divided by the slight median ridge. Pygofers large, acutely 

 narrowed at apex, considerably exceeded by the brown oviduct. 



New York. Described from eight female examples captured at 

 Lancaster during July and August. Sometimes the vertex, front 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XIX. DECEMBKR, 1892. 



