BOSTON JOURNAL 



LYDA Fabr. 



L. OCREATA. — Yellowish-green, antennae and spots blackish. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



9 Body yellowish-green : head with a spot on the stenimata 

 and three lines behind, blackish ; one or two brownish lines be- 

 neath the eyes and an obsolete one before the eyes : mandibles 

 piceous at tip : antennae black ; basal joint dull whitish beneath : 

 thorax with a transverse black line on the collar near the neck ; 

 another behind the collar; about four brown spots, of which the 

 inner [223] ones are smallest ; a larger brown spot behind the 

 anterior wings : wings hyaline, with fuscous nervures ; carpus 

 greenish in the middle : tergum blackish, dull greenish in the 

 middle : tarsi and tibise exteriorly dusky : posterior tibiae blackish. 



Length nearly two-fifths of an inch. 



XORIDES Latr. 



X. HUMERALis nob. — Contributions of the Maclurean Lyceum, 

 p. 74, [ante, 1, 378] where I placed it, agreeably to Jurine, in 

 his genus Anomahn. 



% Antennae entirely black : tergum, first segment on each 

 side with two longitudinal impressed lines ; second and third 

 segments each with an impressed oblique line each side at their 

 bases : trochanters partly white ; anterior and intermediate feet 

 varied with whitish. 



Length over two-fifths of an inch. 



BRACHYGASTER Leach. (EVAXIA F.) 



B. RETICULATUS. — Black; first joint of the antennae, and an- 

 terior pairs of feet piceous. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, reticulate with large punctures : antennas not 

 longer than the trunk, with close set, subequal joints ; first joint 

 subclavate, piceous, longest; second joint not longer than broad, 

 shortest, about half the length of the third : punctures on the 

 posterior face of the metathorax mofe dilated than those of the 

 thorax : wings hyaline ; nervures fuscous : petiole about as long 



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