204 Mr. I. Walker’s Characters of 
39. Smiera annexa. 
Feem.—Flava; caput posticé nigrum; antenne nigra, apice 
subtusque rufescentes, scapo flavo; prothorax nigro-bipunc- 
tatus; mesothoracis segmenta nigra, flavo-marginata; abdo- 
men piceum, basi flavescens; pedes postici coxis apice tibiis- 
que basi nigris, femoribus nigro-bimaculatis; alee antice 
cinerez, apud costam subluride. 
Female.—Yellow. Head black behind and about the ocelli. 
Antenne reddish, black above, except towards the tips; scape 
yellow. Prothorax with an elongated black point on each side by 
the hind-angle. Scutum and parapsides of the mesothorax black, 
broadly bordered with yellow; paraptera black towards the 
scutum; scutellum armed with two short teeth, adorned with a 
black spot, which forms a short transverse ellipse. Petiole 
piceous towards the tip, as long as the metathorax. Abdomen 
piceous, elongate-oval, yellowish towards the base, much shorter 
and narrower than the thorax. Hind-coxe with black tips; hind- 
femora with twelve minute teeth, with two black spots beneath, 
the first extending from the first to the fifth tooth, the second 
apical; hind-tibiz black towards the base. Wings cinereous, 
with a lurid tinge towards the costa; veins black; ulna hardly 
half the length of the humerus; radius longer than the ulna; 
cubitus rather short. 
Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 
40. Smiera cognata. 
Feem.—Lutea; caput anticé flavum, posticé nigrum; antenne 
piceze, subtus apiceque rufe, scapo flavo; thorax punctis 
duobus anticis, scuti vitta cyathiformi, parapsidum vittis 
duabus, parapteris ex parte, scutellique macula nigris ; abdo- 
men plaga postica nigricante; pedes postici coxis apice 
tibiisque basi nigris, femoribus nigro-bimaculatis; ale 
cinerez. 
Female.—Luteous. Head yellow in front, black behind and 
between the ocelli. Antenne piceous, filiform, red beneath and 
towards the tips; scape yellow. Prothorax with a black point 
on each side. Scutum of the mesothorax with a cyathiform black 
stripe; a black stripe on each of the parapsides; paraptera 
yellow, black where they approach each other; scutellum with a 
large black spot on the disk, armed with two very short teeth. 
Petiole as long as the metathorax. Abdomen elongate-oval, very 
much shorter and narrower than the thorax, with a blackish patch 
