498 ritocEEDiNas of the national museum. 



tliaii tbonix ; c.lyyMmH triiiiifynlar, as broad as long, ti[) sliglitly ernargi- 

 iiatc near center; labrum broad, Hpatulate, iind in tliiK as in other 

 Rpecies often folded ])eneatli inandibleH, ho as to appear wanting (an- 

 tenna' wanMiiff); claws vvitliont an inner tooth, simple. Colors, lij^ht 

 lemon-yellow and brown, th<^ latter with bronzy reflec^tions; face below 

 antenna; and lower checks including dypeus, labrum, and mandibles, 

 pronotum, tegtila', scutellnni, band on mesoscutum, basal ])late except 

 })asc, alxlomen except- (central dorsal area, and legs for the most part, 

 yellow; lujad (except as noted, meso- and nietaiiotnrn for the most 

 I)art, center of dorsum of abdomen covering nearly all of basal scle- 

 rites, j)lenra', and ])ectu8, brown with purplish reflections; upper aisd 

 lower surfaces, particularly basally of coxa-, posterior femora except 

 extremities, and more or less of upper edge of anterior parts, brown; 

 wings, hyaline, except narrow fulvous stripe on upi)er half running 

 fi'om base to ajjcx of the anterior pair. 



Ti/jH'.—No. liS'Zii, n.S.N.M. 



Described from a single specimen. (Yorofu), (No. 24). 



12. CIMBEX MACULATA, new species. 



Female. — Lcmgth, 18 mm.; expanse, .'iO mm.; rather slender ; abdomen 

 not wider than thorax, head not much more than half as wide as 

 thorax; dens(;ly cloth(;d with long yellowish ])ubescence which almost 

 entirely obs(;ures the sutures of the head and thorax and forms a 

 rather striking collar about the neck; clypeus broad, truncate, and 

 slightly emar-ginate at apex; antenna' short, (;lavate, with five distinct 

 joints before the club; club with one distinct annulation near base and 

 two other indistinct annulations; claws distinctly bifid, inner ray very 

 closely appli«Ml to and nearly as long as outer ray. (Jolor of head, 

 meso- and metaifotum, pectus and legs, greenish blue with strong metal- 

 lic reflecstions; antenme dark brown, almost black; i)ronotnm, pleura;, 

 and ab(lom(Mi for the most i)art, lemon yellow; the abdomen inclined to 

 reddish and with a velvety appearance from the fine pubescence in 

 addition to the longer hairs; abdomen marked above with a large jmr- 

 ple spot on the center of basal segment and a central and a lateral 

 row on the four following segments'; a sinnlar row of spots on the 

 venter on either side near the margin; wings yellowish, veins reddish 

 yellow. 



Male. — Length, If) mm.; expanse, 30 mm.; somewhat more slender 

 than the female, l)ut in structural and colorational chaiacters agreeing 

 very closely with the latter; central row of spots Ibllowing the large 

 ])urple one on the abdomen is sometimes almost wanting or the spots 

 are much reduced in si/e; hirsute clothing of the body is much more 

 pronounced than with the female, and the yellow areas of pronotum 

 and mesopleura; are distinctly clothed with very long yellow hairs, 

 the hairs of the head and rest of thorax, together with those of the legs, 

 being of a lighter whitish yellow. 



