2H E. T. CRESSON. 



thorax rugulose, the basal enclosures smooth, polished, with a few large 

 punctures, the posterior truocation transversely striated, tubercles very 

 short, acute; abdomen short, broad ovate, shining; tip of first segment 

 •juadrituberculate above, finely aciculate, the apical margin bisinuate ; 

 second segment deeply and transversely depressed on the disk, which, 

 with the narrow division between the large and vei'y deep basal foveas, 

 is longitudinally aciculate, the remainder of this segment, except a few 

 scattered punctm-es, and rest of abdomen, smooth and polished; basal 

 suture of third segment very deep. Length 5 J lines. 



One 9 specimen. This is colored very, much like HopUsmtinHs pic- 

 hiratus nob. 



2. (Edicephalus sororius, u. sj). 



9 • — Differ from (E. albovan'us, from Cuba, only as follows : poste- 

 rior orbits interrupted a little below summit of eyes; pale lines on 

 mesothorax abbreviated ; legs pale lemon-yellow, tips of posterior tarsi 

 white, spot at tips of posterior coxje, line on all the femora above, line 

 on the four anterior tibiae, most of their tarsi, and base of posterior 

 tibiae, black ; abdomen marked the same, but sculptured as in longlcur- 

 m's. licngth 4 2 lines. 



One 9 specimen. (Sumichrast Coll. No. 84. ) 



.". (Edicephalus gracilicornis. n. sp. 



9 . — Black, shining; face, clypeus, mandibles except tips, palpi, an- 

 terior orbits interrupted opposite the ocelli, posterior orbits continued 

 straight across head behind ocelli and nearly confluent, cheeks, broad 

 annulus on antennse, collar, line before teguUe, another indistinctly 

 defined above, and a broad oblique one behind, two lines on mesothorax, 

 a large spot on each side of scutcllura, nearly confluent behind, post- 

 scutellar region, and the pleura except an arcuated line beneath wings, 

 white or yellowish-white; metathorax yellowish-white, with a large ir- 

 regular basal mark on each side above, and a broad stripe down the 

 middle of posterior truncation, black ; wings hyaline, iridescent, slightly 

 yellowish, nervures brownish, stigma pale; legs pale orange-yellow, 

 coxfG and four anterior trochanters whitish, basal incisure of posterior 

 coxae, most of their trochanters, base of their tibiae, and tips of all the 

 tarsi, black ; abdomen black, the petiole, broad basal and apical margins 

 of second segment, narrower apical margins of following segments and 

 the venter pale yellowish. Antennae longer than body, very slender 

 throughout; mesothorax feebly sculptured; scutellum convex, with a 

 short obtuse tubercle on the disk ; metathorax rugulose, transversely 

 striated behind, tubercles very small and acute; abdomen oblong-ovate. 



