26 E. T. CRESSON. 



slender; luesotliorax opaque, longitudinally striated on the disk ; seu- 

 telluni elevated into an obtuse tubercle, more or less prominent ; meta- 

 tliorax rugulose, spines rather long and acute ; areolet subtriangular ; 

 legs slender ; abdomen elongate, flattened, very slender at base, seg- 

 ments very densely and finely punctured. Length 41 — 5 lines. 

 Eight % , two 9 specimens. (Sumichrast Coll. No. 12.) 



12. Hoplismenus scutellaris, n. sp. 



% . — Much like csnrialis, but stouter, head bi'oader, pale markings 

 yellowish, the annulus on antennfe yellow, situate more in the middle, 

 scape pale beneath ; disk of mesothorax flat, longitudinally striated 

 and with a large square yellow mark ; scutellum more prominently el- 

 evated; metathorax with two undulate stripes above, broader at base 

 and confluent at tip, and the basal incisure, black ; wings yellowish- 

 hyaline, iridescent ; posterior femora more or less fuscous above and 

 within, posterior coxa; within and at tips and tips of all the tarsi black ; 

 abdomen shorter and broader, with broader yellowish apical margins. 

 Length 4 — il lines. 



Three S specimens. (Sumichrast Coll. No. 99.) 



1.1. Hoplismenus abnormis, n. sp. 



9 . — Black, opaque ; face, clypeus, mandibles except tips, palpi, or- 

 bits, interrupted behind, cheeks, annulus on antennae, interrupted abpve, 

 two lines before teguUc, two short lines on disk of mesothorax, scutel- 

 lum except sides, postscutellum, two spots on tip of metathorax, cov- 

 ering spines, a large rounded spot on flanks, spot behind posterior wing, 

 and two large spots on pleura, white or yellowish-white ; wings hya- 

 line, faintly dusky at tips, nervures and stigma brown-black; legs yel- 

 low, coxae whitish, posterior pair at tip and within, line on all the fe- 

 mora within, tips of posterior trochanters, extreme tips of their femora, 

 and tip of their tibiae within, black ; apical and lateral margins of all 

 the segments of abdomen, very broad on apical segments, and veuter, 

 pale yellowish, the petiole of first segment is black, the sides of dilated 

 apex narrowly yellowish, sometimes confluent above and enclosing a 

 black spot; the apical segments appear almost entirely yellowish. Head 

 broad, cheeks full, antennae as long as the body, somewhat dilated near 

 the tips, third joint longer than fourth ; thorax sparsely punctured ; 

 lateral margins of scutellum strongly carinate, and raised into a promi- 

 nent flattened tubercle ; metathorax transversely striated behind, spines 

 long and Subacute ; areolet rather small, 5-anguIar ; abdomen short, 

 broad, ovate, slender at base, second and third segments closely and 

 deeply punctured, remainder smooth and shining, apex of first segment 



