168 E. T. CRESSON. 



Exochns evectus. n. sp. 



9. — Black, smooth and shining; face, line on each side of antennae, man- 

 dibles, palpi, spot beneath eyes and a spot at summit, lemon-yellow : apex of 

 scutellum piceous, a slender transverse yellowish line on postscutellum ; tegii- 

 Ise brown, with a white spot in front; a slender line beneath tegulse and a 

 large cuneiform spot in front, yellowish ; sometimes the pleura has a yellowish 

 line on anterior margin; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma blackish, no 

 areolet; metathorax with a large subquadrate central area; legs short, robust, 

 femora much swollen, especially posterior pair, yellowish-fulvous, four anterior 

 coxse more or less j'ellow, tibiee whitish, apices of intermediate pair dusky, 

 apical third of posterior pair fuscous, tarsi whitish with tips of joints some- 

 times dusky; abdomen smooth and polished, slightly pubescent towards apex. 

 Length .30 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to paUipes, 

 Cress. 



£.YOclius texanns. n. sp. 



•J, . — Black, shining, with a very short, pale golden, sericeous pile, more 

 obvious in certain lights; face, clypeus, space beneath eyes and palpi, lemon- 

 yellow; mandibles blackish-brown; thorax flattened above, very finely punc- 

 tured; scutellum flat, polished, lateral margin carinate; metathorax shining, 

 with six longitudinal carinse, two on disk, short and approximate, and two 

 on each side, apex truncate; tegulse whitish; wings hyaline, nervures and 

 stigma black, no areolet; legs short, robust, uniformly bright ferruginous, 

 femora incrassate; abdomen shining, closely and finely punctured, first seg- 

 ment with four longitudinal carinse, those on disk approximate; second seg- 

 ment with three longitudinal carinse, the central one continued on the third 

 segment nearly to apex, the lateral one not quite reaching the middle of same 

 segment. Length .28 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. CI. W. Belfrage.) Allied to carinatus, Cress. 



^letopius Hageiiii, n. sp. 



^ . — Black, with short, pale glittering pubescence, especially on cheeks 

 and sides of thorax; face white, with a central longitudinal black spot; nar- 

 row anterior orbits, clypeus, labrum, spot on mandibles, another beneath ej'es 

 and palpi, white; a black dot on each side of clypeus; antenn-se entirely black 

 except a dot on scape beneath ; mesothorax closely and rather coarsely punc- 

 tured'; scutellum with a transverse, subcordate white spot at tip; spot on 

 tegulse, a line iinmediately beneath, and a cuneiform spot further beneath, 

 white ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma black; areolet rhomboidal, shorter 

 than in poUinctorius ; legs black, tips of four anterior femora, their tibiae ex- 

 cept line behind, their tarsi except tips and basal half of posterior tibise, white ; 

 abdomen entirely black, coarsely punctured, with coarse deep strise on disk of 

 segments 2 and 3 ; first segment with two prominent longitudinal carinse, more 

 sharply defined near base ; venter whitish. Length .52 inch. 



One specimen. (Boll. Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.) A very distinct 

 species, distinguished at once from poUinctorius, Say, by the immacu- 

 late abdomen and banded posterior tibise. The S , of which I have one 

 specimen from Massachusetts, difl'ers only by the longer antennEe. by 



