960 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvm. 



Family OXYBELID.E. 



Genus NOTOGLOSSA Dahlbom. 



3. NOTOGLOSSA BANKSI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4 nun. OjnKiuc, l>liU'k, closely, contluently punc- 

 tured, the face below the antennse and the sternum clothed with 

 sparse, silvery-white hairs; the clypeus has a median ridge and is 

 slightly emarginate anteriorly; the mandi])l('s are testaceous; the 

 prothoi'acic tubercles, the tegulie, a spot on front femora beneath 

 toward apex, the apex of the middle femora, a broad annulus at the 

 base of the hind tibite, and all the other tibia> and tarsi are 3'ellowish- 

 white; the scales on each side of the scutellum and the apical margins 

 of the emarginate scale at its apex are also white or yellowish-white; 

 the abdomen is ])lack, l)ut thei'e is an oblong- white spot on each lateral 

 apical margin of the first and second segments. Wings h^-aline, the 

 stigma and veins brown. 



r^/><^— Cat. No. 8201. U.S.N.M. 



Manila. This species closely resembles the North American species 

 iV^ emarginata Say, but the prothoracic tul)ercles in that species are not 

 white and the emarginated scale at the apex of the scutellum is shorter, 

 more deeply emarginate, and quite dili'erent in shape. 



Only a single specimen is known and was sent me b}" Mr. Charles 

 S. Banks, in honor of whom the species is named. 



Family LARKID.F. 



Genus PISON Spinola. 



4. PISON PUNCTULATUS, new species. 



Male. — Length 7 nnn. Black and shining, the forehead and the 

 thorax finely, microscopically punctulate, and clothed with a silvery 

 pubescence, the metathorax striated, the striae on the metanotum 

 oblique, the basal area not defined, the median sulcus only slightly 

 indicated, with a delicate carina ])asally; the median sulcus on the 

 truncature is well defined; legs, including tibial spurs, entirely black; 

 the abdomen is l)lack and impunctate, with a faint silvery pubescence 

 at the sides and at the apex of the segments, very distinct in certain 

 lights, but absent on the pygidium and the two preceding segments. 

 Wings hyaline, faintl}' tinted at apex, the stigma and veins black; the 

 second cul)ital cell is longly petiolated and receives the first recurrent 

 nervure a ery near its basal angle; the second recurrent nervure is 

 ijiterstitial or nearly Avith the second transverse cubitus. 



Type.— Cvit. No. 8338, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Allied to /'. lagujuv. Ashmead, but quite distinct in punctuation and 

 in metathoracic differences. 



