124 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



(lateral ?) dorsal lines indistinct, median line depressed in front and 

 slightly carinated longitudinally, the angles in front on each side of 

 the depression elevated to an obtuse tubercle ; pectus blackish, slightly 

 reddish in front ; mesosternum with a yellow line running down each 

 side ; pleurae polished yellow, with a broad, uneven, longitudinal line 

 on each side bordering the posterior suture ; a transverse line on each 

 side below and the entire surface between the four anterior coxae, 

 black; space between the pleura and metathorax blackish, broadly 

 yellow on each side; scutellum prominent, quadrate, yellow, densely 

 punctured, deeply excavated in front and acutely carinated on each 

 side, the excavation blackish ; postscutellum yellow ; metathorax 

 prominent, coarsely reticulated throughout, yellow, the basal suture 

 strongly contracted ; abruptly sloped behind and with a distinct, black- 

 ish, median furrow. 



Wings rather short, deep yellow-hyaline, the apical margin broadly 

 fuliginous ; nervures honey-yellow ; the posterior wings with a large 

 fuscous spot near the base. 



Legs yellow, a large spot at the base of the posterior coxae, the ante- 

 rior femora beneath obscurely, the four posterior femora except the base 

 and apex, and the extreme tips of all the tarsi, blackish. 



Abdomen elongate, polished, broad and compressed toward the tip ; 

 the two basal segments honey-yellow, with the posterior half of the 

 dorsum of the first and anterior half of the dorsum of the second black ; 

 the remaining segments honey-yellow, their sides margined with bright 

 yellow. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species, and can only 

 give the original description with slight modifications in ar- 

 rangement. 



Type. — 9 . Caja No. 337, Instituto de Segunda Ensenanza 

 de la Habana.* 



Mr. Cresson remarks that in this beautiful species "the 

 antennae and wings are much shorter than in any other spe- 

 cies of this genus." 



Distribution . — Cuba. 



* Mr. Wm. T. Home writes that when he saw this type, May 22, 

 1909, it appeared to be in a good state of preservation. It was 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 Ensenanza 

 de la Habana, Obispo Street— in the first block above the palace — 

 Havana, Cuba, Dr. Canizares, director. 



