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finely rugulose ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the ner- 

 vures and stigma ferruginous ; the legs paler than the 

 thorax, except the coxae, Avith the claws and pulvillus 

 black. Abdomen smooth and shining, darkest towards 

 the apex. 



Paniscus ephippiaUis. 



Female. — Length 6 lines. Ferruginous, with the eyes, 

 mesothorax and apex of the abdomen, black. The apical 

 portion of the antennae fuscous ; the tips of the mandibles 

 black. Thorax : the sternum black ; wings hyahne, the 

 nervures and stigma fuscous ; the scutellum prominent, 

 oblong, narrowed towards the apex, and with the sides 

 margined ; the metathorax finely ti-ansversely striated. 

 The abdomen beyond the first segment fusco-ferruginous, 

 darkest at the apex. 



Tryphonides. 



Scolohates varipes. 



Female. — Length 2h lines. Head and thorax black; 

 abdomen red in the middle. The inner orbit of the eyes 

 with a narrow ferruginous line ; the mandibles and palpi 

 pale testaceous ; the antennae ferruginous. The wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and stigma ferruginous. The 

 mesothorax smooth and shining; the margin of the pro- 

 thorax laterally white, as well as the teguhB ; the scutellum 

 white ; the legs ferruginous ; the posterior tibiie black at 

 the base to about one fourth of their length, then one 

 fourth white, another fourth black, the apical portion 

 ferruginous. One fourth of the length of the abdomen in 

 the middle ferruginous ; the posterior tarsi black. 



Scolohates intrudens. 



Female. — Length 3 lines. Black, with pale anterior 

 and intermediate legs. Mandibles and palpi pale yellow ; 

 the antennae a little longer than the body. Thorax, sub- 

 opaque ; the wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, 

 the tegular with a white spot ; the anterior and interme- 

 diate coxa3 and all the trochanters, yellow ; the anterior 

 and intermediate femora and tibije pale ferruginous ; the 

 tarsi more or less fuscous ; the posterior tibias pale beneath ; 

 abdomen shining black ; the ovipositor nearly as long as 

 the head and thorax. 



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