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Distribution. — Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 



Location of specimens. — American Entomological Society, 

 two 9 and one cf cotypes, No. 72, Cuba. American Museum 

 of Natural History, 9 , homotype, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 

 U. S. National Museum, Cuba. British Museum, 9 , type of 

 T. erythrocerus Cam., Valladolid in Yucatan. 



Thyreodon affiiiis Cress. 



Thyreodon affinis Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., IV, p. 46 1865. 



" " Ashmead, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 354 1900. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 185 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34me Fasc, p. 25, 



n. 3 1905. 



Fulvous or honey-yellow ; tip of antennce and base of second abdominal 

 segtnent blackish ; wings fuscous , with a violaceous reflection. 



Length, 42 mm. ; wing, 16 mm. ; spread, 36 mm. 



Fulvous or honey-yellow, shining, clothed with a very short, yellow- 

 ish pubescence, more obvious when viewed laterally' ; eyes paler, an- 

 tennas fulvous, the apical joints brown var3'ing to black, two-thirds 

 the length of the body; mandibles tipped with blackish. 



Thorax indistinctly punctured ; the mesonotum with parapsidal fur- 

 rows broad and deep, with a subobsolete elevated line down the middle 

 of each groove ; mesopleurse polished ; scutellum convex, deeply ex- 

 cavated in front, with a carina on each side acutely developed ; meta- 

 thorax abruptly sloped behind, with a broad shallow median furrow 

 becoming deeper towards the insertion of the abdomen where the sur- 

 face is longitudinally striated, the remainder of the surface indistinctly 

 sculptured ; wings dark fuscous, with a violaceous reflection, more 

 obscure on the apical margin ; nervures blackish ; legs of the color of 

 the body. 



Abdomen elongate, falcate, the apical segments compressed but not 

 very broad, the basal half of the second segment above black ; anal 

 processes broad, obliquely pointed at the tips, which are acute. 



I have not seen the type of this species, and can only give 

 the original description, slightly modified for simplicity. 



Type. — c?. Caja No. 93, Instituto de Segunda Enseiianza 

 de la Habana, Cuba.* 



Distribu tion . — Cuba . 



* Mr. Wm. T. Horn writes that at the time he saw this type on May 

 22, 1909, it appeared to be in a good state of preservation, in a small 

 cigar box with a glass face — Caja No. 93. This with the rest of the 

 Gundlach collection is now in the Instituto de Segunda Enseiianza de 

 la Habana, located on Obispo Street (in the first block above the 

 palace) , Dr. Canizares director. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXX VIII. 



