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slightly purplish anteriorly, finely punctate, the scutellum with 

 some sparse punctures and an impunctate space at the middle; 

 mesopleura rather closely punctate; metathorax above smooth, 

 impunctate, except at extreme base where there are some raised 

 radiating lines but no enclosure; the sides are delicately sha- 

 greened, while the posterior face has a deep median incision 

 followed by a carina below. Wings subhyaline, the stigma 

 and veins dark brown; the first submarginal cell is about as 

 long as the second and third united; the first recurrent nervure 

 joins the second submarginal cell near its apex while the sec- 

 ond recurrent nervure joins the third submarginal cell a little 

 beyond its middle. Abdomen oblong-oval smooth, impunc- 

 tate, the first segment with a deep emargination at base above, 

 the second, third and fourth segments along their sutures at 

 base narrowly impressed, the extreme apical margins of sec- 

 ond, third, fourth and fifth segments narrowly testaceous. 



?. Length 4.5 mm. Differs from i only in its larger size, 

 the face below the antenna? being sparsely covered with whit- 

 ish hairs, the clypeus fimbriate with golden hair; the antennas 

 12-jointed, the second and third flagellar joints equal, a little 

 wider than long, the first being a little longer than wide; the 

 tibiae and tarsi, as well as the terminal abdominal segment are 

 covered with yellowish and whitish hairs; while the abdomen 

 is larger, more hairy, the apical margins of the ventral seg- 

 ments being fimbriate with long sparse hair. 



Described from I and ? specimens, taken at Bahia Honda, 

 Cuba, June 1. 



FAMILY BEMBICID.F;. 



5. Monedula sign ata Linn. 



One $ specimen from Eleuthera. A species common in 

 South America and Cuba. 



6. Stizus hogardii Latr. 



One 9 from Eleuthera. Mr. Wickham also took a large 

 specimen of this species at Key West, Florida. It is the 

 first notice of its occurrence in the United States. 



