340 EDAVARD NORTON. 



nervures fuscous; feet yellowish-white; abdomen rufous, first segment, 

 and sometimes the tip, black. 



■' North West Territory and Arkansa.." 



Two imperfect specimens in the Harris Collection from New Hamj- 

 shire. said to have been identified by Say, have the antenna3 wanting 

 so that I cannot be certain of the tribe. They have the ends of the 

 third, above mentioned, on the face, split like a V ; the hinder ti])iie 

 and all the coxie black, the claws apparently cleft of equal size, the 

 teeth near each other, marginal cross nervure not coinciding with that 

 beneath, second brachial cross-nervure incomplete. 



1 7. L. mnltisignata. 



L7/da muHisignatus, Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii. 1864, 15, 32, 

 Black; many yellow spots on head and thorax; abdomen rufous. Length 

 l).;^2. Br. wings 0.72 inch. 



9 . — Shining black; antennae 24-jointed, black, mandibles bidentate, 

 one mandible with a small tooth between the others, which is wanting 

 on the other; two lunate spots above ocelli, enclosed by larger crescents, 

 which connect with a short inner orbital line, four oval parallel spots 

 :d:)0ve antenna), a large spot on cheeks, nasus (with two inner black 

 dots) and mouth beneath, straw-white; tegulfe, collar, V-spot on an- 

 terior lobe, a triangular apot on each middle lobe of mesothorax at base 

 and summit of scutel, straw white; abdomen yellow rufous; legs of 

 tliree colors ; coxffi and trochanters black, femora white, tibias and 

 tarsi dark waxen ; each of the four posterior tibia3 with two side spurs ; 

 wings slightly clouded at apex, third brachial cell with incomplete 

 cross-nervure, fuargiual cross-nervure not connecting with that below. 

 Ilocky Mts., Colorado. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). One female. 



IS. L. rufo-fasciata. 



Lyda rufofa'tciata, Harris Catalogue. 

 Black, with yellow spots and a rufous band on abdomen. LeJigth 0.32. Br. 

 wings 0.64 inch. 



9 . — Black, antennae black, 25-jointed, third joint one-half longer 

 than fourth ; two slender crescents from occiput to inner orbit opposite 

 aiiteuHcTe, an oval dot above antennas on outer side, sometimes joined to 

 crescent, two angular lines forming a diamond above antennae, edge of 

 nasus and mouth below, pale yellow; tegulae, scutel and spot behind, 

 yellow ; a broad rufous band on abdomen, covering the second, third 

 fourth and fifth segments; legs pale, almost white; cdxse black, tarsi 

 ferruginous ; hinder tibiae blackish toward apex ; wings hyaline, stigma, 

 black, second brachial cell with incomplete cross-nervure. 



New Hampshire. (Harris Coll.) Connecticut. Four specimens. 



