106 MISCELLANEOUS FOREST INSECTS. 



margin; saw with regular triangularly-shaped teeth; sheath at the apex obliquely 

 truncate. Reddish-yellow; flagellum, head (labrum and palpi excepted), a spot on 

 the lateral lobe of the mesonotum, four posterior tibiae and tarsi, and apical four 

 abdominal segments black; anterior tarsi dusky. Wings dusky hyaline, with a broad 

 yellow band behind the stigma; venation in the dusky part brown, in the yellow 

 part yellowish, basal part of the stigma yellowish. 



Male. — Length, 8 mm. The male agrees with the characters given for the female 

 except that the supraclypeal area and clypeus are pale. Hypopygidium rounded 

 apically. 



Type locality. — San Rafael, Jicoltepec, Mexico. Five females and 

 one male collected by C. H. T. Townsend (from the Ashmead collec- 

 tion). Also two females from Cordoba, Mexico, collected by Mr. 

 Frederick Knab. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18134, U. S. National Museum. 



PSEUDOCYPHONA Ashmead. 

 Pseudoeyphona Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 30, p. 211, 1898. 

 Type. — Pseudoeyphona mexicana Ashmead. 



This genus belongs to the Schizocerinse and is related to Schizocem, but is readily 

 separated fi-om Schizocera and allies by the toothed tarsal claws. Habitus similar to 

 Schizocera. Clypeus and labrum emarginate; antennal carina present; eyes elongate 

 oval, slightly converging to the clypeus; malar space almost wanting; ocelli in a low 

 triangle, the lateral ones very little before the supraorbital line; antennae inserted 

 near the middle of the face, the third joint simple in the female and somewhat flat- 

 tened; thorax and abdomen normal for the group; tibias without lateral spurs; post- 

 basitarsis shorter than the following joints; claws with an erect inner tooth near the 

 middle; radial cell not appendiculate; four cubital cells, the second receiving both 

 recurrent veins; basal vein joining the subcosta at the origin of the cubitus; trans- 

 verse median received near the middle of the first discoidal cell; anal cell broadly 

 contracted; radial cell of the hind wings open at the apex; two closed discal cells in 

 the hind wing; the anal cell longly petiolate, the petiole longer than the cell. 



PSEUDOCYPHONA MEXICANA Ashmead. 



Pseudoeyphona mexicana Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 30, p. 211, 1898. 



Black; mesonotum, scutellum, and upper part of the pleurae reddish; legs black; 

 wings dark. 



Female.— J jength, 7 mm. Labrum and clypeus very slightly arcuately emarginate; 

 supraclypeal area convex, triangular in outline, meeting the prominent middle carina 

 between the antennae; antennal foveae large and joining the supraclypeal fovea; 

 antennal furrows not well defined; ocellar basin represented by a gently depressed 

 area; postocellar furrow almost wanting; postocellar line shorter than the ocellocular 

 line; antennaeshort, the third joint broad, flattened; thorax normal ; transverse median 

 slightly beyond the middle of the first discoidal cell; third cubital cell about one- 

 third longer on the radius than on the cubitus; stigma robust, broadest at the base; 

 sheath with the lower margin marginate; saw with very small, close teeth. Black; 

 pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, tegulae, and upper part of the mesopleurae reddish; 

 wings and venation blackish-brown. 



Type locality. — San Rafael, Jicoltepec, Mexico. One female from 

 the Ashmead collection, collected by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend. 



Type.—Csit. No. 13135, U. S. National Museum. 



