240 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I909. 



beyond the tip of R4+5; prefurca of the media nearly as long 

 as the first section of the radial sector. Mexico, Teapa in 

 Tabasco. 



In Williston's figure the palpi appear incurved, this, how- 

 ever, may be the engraver's error. I have a specimen from 

 Pottstown, Pa. (collected by C. W. Johnson) in which the face 

 and palpi are yellow ; the coalesced part of the media is but lit- 

 tle more than half as long as the petiole ; and each claw has a 

 tooth near the base. 



3. Cerotelion longimanns Williston. 



1896. longimanus, Williston. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 258 

 (Ceroplatus) 



]\Iale. Length 6 mm. Face yellow, very narrow. Palpi and 

 first 2 joints of the antennae yellow ; remainder of the antennae 

 dark brown. Antennae about as long as the dorsum of the 

 thorax. Front narrow, the sides gently convex, black, except 

 on the lowermost portion ; the_2^1arg;e ocelli about equidistant 

 from each other and from the margins of the eyes. Occiput 

 black. Thorax yellow ; the dorsum with 3 broad black stripes, 

 enclosing 2 narrow yellOw stripes, which are convergent pos- 

 teriorly; the median stripe enclosing a slender yellow stripe, 

 which does not reach beyond the middle; a large rounded spot 

 on the mesopleura, another below it on the mesosternum, and the 

 sides of the metanotum, dark brown or black, the middle of the 

 metanotum brownish ; scutellum brown. Abdomen slender, 

 cylindrical, dark brown ; each segment, save the first and last, 

 with an elongate yellow spot on each side, reaching 2-3 of the 

 way to the hind margin ; genital organs yellow. Coxae light 

 yellow, the hind pair with a brown spot ; femora yellow, 

 the base of the middle and hind pairs brown; tibiae 

 yellowish-brown ; tarsi brown ; no bristles on the front femora ; 

 front metatarsi about 2.5 times the length of the tibiae ; middle 

 metatarsi a fourth or a third longer than the tibiae ; the hind pair 

 scarcely longer; hind tibiae with two spurs. Wings tinged with 

 brownish; R2+3 runs into the costa. St. Vincent Isl., 1000 

 feet. 



