NO. 1 I4,s. xj;j ^r j^ p^ NESE lIYMENO PTEJi. I -.1 SIIMEA D. 18 5 



■ other characters: The areolet in the front wings is large and pentago- 

 nal; the median cell is a little shorter than the ,sul)median; the trans- 

 verse median nervure in the hind wing is broken at its basal angle, 

 the subdiscoidal nervure being almost interstitial with the median vein; 

 the cl3'peus has a slight median sinus; the scutellum ends in a small 

 tooth; while the claws are simple. 



The genus is named in honor of Mr. Y. Nawa, the well-known ento- 

 mologist of Japan, proprietor of the entomological laboratory in Gifu, 

 also the editor of that interesting Japanese magazine, The Insect 

 World, and one who has done so much to stinmlate entomological 

 research throughout Japan. 



NAWAIA JAPONICA, new species. 

 Plate XIV, %. 3. 



Female. — Length, 11 mm. Black; the orbits, the face below anten- 

 nae, except a median black line and a black line at base of ch^peus, the 

 mandibles, the palpi, the upper margin of pronotum, two lines on the 

 mesonotum which curve outwardi}' at the anterior margin, the tegula?, 

 a spot beneath, the scutellum except the transverse furrow at base 

 and a spot at apex inclosing the apical tooth, the postscutellum, the 

 metathorax except a black transverse band at base, bands at apex of 

 all the segments of the abdomen (the bands widening posteriori}^ so 

 that the apical segments are almost wholly yellow), two lines on first 

 segment, two spots at base of second, the apices of all femora and the 

 front and middle femora beneath se(;ond joint of trochanters, most of 

 middle tibiae except a spot at base and a stripe behind, a large spot 

 on hind coxie behind, and an annulus on the hind tibia? before the 

 middle, all yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown-black. 



Typ€.—OA.i. No. 7259, U.sIn.M, 



Locality. — Gifu. Described from two specimens. No. 4-T, received 

 from Mr. Y. Nawa. 



Tribe IX. F»ORIZONINI. 



Genus TEMELUCHA Forster. 

 TEMELUCHA JAPONICA, new species. 



Female. — Length 7.5 to 8 mm. Head yellowish, with the occiput 

 and a spot on vertex inclosing the ocelli black; the eyes brown; the 

 thorax brownish yellow, with a large oblong spot on the middle of the 

 mesonotum anteriorly, the furrow across base of the abdomen, and 

 an oblong spot at base of the metanotum black; the front and middle 

 coxae and trochantei?.'8, and the basis of the tarsi are yellowish white; 

 tips of hind tibia? and the three last joints of tarsi are black; abdomen 

 brownish yellow, the petiole basally, blotches at base of the second 



