undescribed Species of Smiera (Chalcilites). 205 
on the hind part above. Hind-coxe with black tips; hind- 
femora armed with eleven small teeth, adorned on each side with 
an apical black spot, and on the outer side with a black spot near 
the base; hind-tibize black towards the base. Wings cinereous ; 
veins black; ulna a little less than half the length of the 
humerus; radius a little longer than the ulna; cubitus short. 
Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 
41. Smicra demota. 
Foem.—Flava; caput posticé nigrum; antennze ochracee, basi 
supra pice; prothorax fascia antica punctisque duobus 
posticis nigris; scuti discus, parapsidum vittz due late, 
paraptera ex parte, scutellique macula conica nigra; abdomen 
rufescens nigro-quadrifasciatum, apice flavum; pedes postici 
piceo-strigati ; alee anticee cinerea, apud costam subluride. 
Female-—Yellow. Head black behind. Antenne filiform, 
ochraceous, piceous towards the base above. Prothorax with a 
black band in front, and with a black point on each side hindward. 
Scutum of the mesothorax black, except along the outer side; a 
broad black stripe on each of the parapsides; paraptera partly 
black; scutellum with a conical black spot. Petiole a little longer 
than the metathorax. Abdomen fusiform, a little longer and very 
much narrower than the thorax, reddish except towards the tip, 
with four black bands, of which the Ist and the 4th are inter- 
rupted. Hind-coxe with a piceous streak on the outer side; 
hind-femora with a piceous streak on the inner side, armed with 
several minute teeth. Wings cinereous. Fore-wings with a lurid 
tinge towards the costa; veins piceous; ulna about half the length 
of the humerus; radius as long as the ulna; cubitus moderately 
long. 
Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
42, Smiera apparata. 
Feem.—Lutea ; caput anticé flavescens, linea postica transversa 
nigra; antenne nigra, basi rufescentes, scapo flavo; pro- 
thorax linea transversa interrupta nigra; mesothorax seg- 
mentis nigris luteo-marginatis, scutello luteo macula tetragona 
nigra; abdomen nigrum, basi luteum; pedes coxis posticis 
apice nigris, tibiis posticis linea abbreviata nigricante ; ale 
cinerez, apud costam subluride. 
Female.—Luteous. Head pale yellowish in front, with a black 
transverse line behind the vertex. Antenne black, reddish 
