398 Mr. F. Smith on neiv Species of Mexican Ponipili(la\ 

 Genus Priocnemis, Schiodte. 



1. Priocnemis velox. 



P. ferrugineus, alis flavo-hyalinis fasciis duabus fascis. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Fermginons, inclining to a brick-red ; 

 the head black, with the clypeus, mandibles, and antenna) ferruginous, 

 the six apical joints of the latter black, the tips of the mandibles 

 black. The sutures of the base of the metathorax and post-scutellum 

 black ; the pectus and the coxae behind black ; the trochanters and 

 extreme base of the femora black ; the wings flavo-hyaline, the anterior 

 pair with two fuscous fascise and the tips fuscous, the nervures tes- 

 taceous. The extreme base of the abdomen black, and its apex with 

 a little fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Oajaca (Mexico). In the National Collection. 



Genus Notoctphtts, Smith. 



1. Notocyphus plagiatus. 



N. niger, vertice vittaque thoracis lata longitudinali rubris, alis nigro- 

 fuscis violaceo submicantibus. 



Female. Length 1 inch, l^lack ; the abdomen with a fine change- 

 able silkj^ lustre ; the head above the insertion of the antennfe and a 

 broad longitudinal stripe on the pro- and mesothorax, the scutellum, 

 and post-scutellum blood-red ; the labrum oblong, narrowed towards 

 its anterior margin, which is transverse ; the wings very dark brown, 

 with a slight violet iridescence ; the legs elongate, very slightly spi- 

 nose ; the claws bifid. 



Hah. Mexico. In the National Collection. 



2. Notocyphus albopictus, 



N. niger, clypei prothoracis margine postico, scutello, postscuteUo, meta- 

 thoracis angulis abdominisque fascia albis. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. Black ; the inner orbits of the ej'es, not 

 extending to their summit, the posterior margin of the prothorax, a spot 

 on the scutellum and another on the post-scutellum, the apical angles 

 of the metathorax, and the basal half of the third segment of the ab- 

 domen white ; the anterior tai-si rufo-testaceous ; the body covered 

 with a thin cinereous pile ; the wings hyaline, the apical portion of the 

 superior pair beyond the second submarginal cell fuscous. 



Hah. Mexico. In the National Collection. 



Genus Fekkeola, St. Farg. 



1. Ferreola variegata. 



F, nigra, metathorace abdominisque basi pube argentata vestitis, seg- 

 mento tertio abdominis feiTugineo, alis nigro-fusco fasciatis. 



