24 E. T. CRESSON. 



pleura beneath, extending up on each side for a short distance, whitish ; 

 luetathorax entirely black, rather densely clothed with a short fine, pale 

 sericeous pubescence; wings hyaline, sometimes tinged with yellowish, 

 nervures black, stigma sometimes brown ; legs yellow, cosas whitish, 

 posterior pair above, four anterior femora behind, posterior pair except 

 base beneath, tips of their tibire, and extreme tips of all the tarsi, black ; 

 abdomen above more or less obscure luteous-yellow, a large mark near 

 apex of first segment, basal two-thirds of second, basal half of third, 

 and narrow basal margin of the two following segments black ; venter 

 orange-yellow. Body very indistinctly punctured ; antennae long, slen- 

 der, subserrate; scutellum subconvex, flattened at tip, sides subcari- 

 nate ; metathorax with tolerably well-defined elevated lines, posterior 

 truncation with fine transverse striaa, spines rather short, robust, acute; 

 areolet small, subtriangular ; abdomen elongate, flattened, subopaque, 

 first segment slender, smooth and shining ; basal fovese of second seg- 

 ment longitudinal, rather deep. Length 5 — 7 lines. 

 Five % specimens. (Sumichrast Coll. Nos. 48 and 98.) 



8. Hoplismenus limatus, n. sp. 



% . — Black, smooth and shining, with a slight opaline iridescence, 

 subpubescent ; face, clypeus, orbits, mouth, cheeks, broad annulus on 

 antennae, collar, narrow margins of prothorax, internapted above, line 

 over tegulas, spot before, sides of scutellum, margins of scutellar re- 

 gion, and tegulae, white or yellowish-white; pleura and metathorax 

 very pale fulvous, the upper surface of the latter black, with the ele- 

 vated lines pale; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures blackish, stigma 

 pale, margined with blackish ; legs luteous-yellow, a stripe on the fe- 

 mora above, and the four anterior tarsi more or less, fuscous, posterior 

 tarsi bright yellow ; abdomen black, narrow apical and lateral margins 

 of all the segments above, and the venter, whitish; there is also a 

 whitish dot on each side of second segment near the base. Head large, 

 subquadrate, cheeks full, convex, antennae long, slender; scutellum 

 slightly raised, flattened above, carinate laterally; metathorax obliquely 

 truncated behind, the truncation rugose, the elevated lines well-defined, 

 the spines short and acute ; areolet broad, 5-angular ; abdomen very 

 slender at base, remainder flat, oblong-ovate, smooth and polished. 

 Length 42 lines. 



One % specimen. 



9. Hoplismenus occiputalis, n. sp. 



S 9 . — Fulvo-ferruginous ; head black, anterior orbits, mouth, and 

 lower part of cheeks in 9 , the face, clypeus, mouth, anterior orbits 



