Mr. W. F. Kirby on new Uymenoj)tera. 143 



low. AnteniiEe 14-jointecl, as long as the body, black, scape 

 pear-shaped, thicker at the extremity than the flagellum, half 

 as long as the third joint ; second joint annular, third to 

 thirteenth of equal length, about four times as long as broad ; 

 terminal joint half as long again as the preceding and pointed 

 at the tip ; the antenna are clothed with short hairs, most 

 distinctly so towards the tip, and all the joints are well sepa- 

 rated ; all the joints except the scape, which is smooth and 

 shining, are dull black and longitudinally striated. Head 

 witli a fovea behind each ocellus, the hindermost falling 

 away to the occiput. 



Prothorax transverse, with two contiguous foveas in the 

 middle above, and the sides clothed with grey hairs ; meso- 

 thorax with the edges raised, and with four distinct and con- 

 verging depressions above, the two innermost only reaching 

 to the middle ; scutellum with the edges raised, two large 

 fovese at the base, and a strong carina rising between them 

 and running to the extremity of the long and strong spine ; 

 the mesothorax and scutellum with scattered raised bristles ; 

 metathorax clothed with grey hair. 



Abdomen mostly black, smooth and shining, the first seg- 

 ment black, opaque, short, and very strongly longitudinally 

 striated, the second segment inclining to rufous and longitu- 

 dinally striated at the base ; the remaining joints are smooth, 

 the third occupying three fourths of the length of the abdo- 

 men, the apical segments very short. 



Legs dull red, slender, except the coxse, which are thick- 

 ened at the base ; sparingly clothed with whitish diverging 

 bristles ; tibife with two slender yellow spines at the tips ; 

 first joint of tarsi as long as the rest, the three following nar- 

 rowed at their bases ; a long pointed pulvillus between the 

 claws. 



Wings hyaline ; fore wings slightly smoky, venation 

 normal. 



Hah. Theresopolis [FriiJistorfer). 



Allied to A. rufipes, Cress., from Cuba; but this species is 

 only If lines in length, and has reddish antennas. 



Clialcididae. 



Chalcii)INj<:. 

 Smicra gracilis. 



Long. Corp. 5 millim., exp. al. 10 millim. 

 Head above and behind, thorax, and hind femora black ; 

 eyes green ; face (except mentum), scape of antennae beneath. 



