118 APlDiE. 



at the baso ; tlic front clothed with very palo ochracoous pubes- 

 cence, the cheeks with white ; tlic mandibles fringed with white 

 hairs. Thorax densely clothed with short reddish-brown pubes- 

 cence on the disk, ])aler on the metathorax, beneath and on the 

 legs with ])lack ; the anterior tibise and tarsi with a fringe of white 

 pubescence, the posterior tibia) and tarsi densely clothed with 

 white outside, the former with a little black at the base ; beneath 

 entirely black ; Avings subhyaline, with black nervures, the tegidac 

 obscurely i)iccou8. Abdomen densely clothed above with very 

 short rufo-fulvous pubescence, the fifth and sixth segments with 

 black ; the fifth has at the baso in the middle a little tuft of 

 white pubescence. 



Hah. Nvassa. 



HABROPODA, Smith. 



1. Hahropoda montezumia. 



Male. Length 5:j lines. — Black ; the thorax with ochraceous pu- 

 bescence above, also a little on the basal segment of the abdomen ; 

 the three following segments have their apical margins fringed 

 with pale bright pubescence, and the fifth and sixth are covered 

 with the same. The clypeiis much produced, and, as well as the 

 labrum, mandibles, scape of the antcnme in front, and an angular 

 spot on each side of the clypeus at the margin of the eyes, yellowish 

 white ; the face with thin black pubescence, that on the cheeks 

 and thorax beneath white. The wings subhyaline, the nervures 

 fusco-fcrniginous, the tegiilaj pale testaceous ; the tarsi, except the 

 basal joint, ferruginous. The abdomen with short thin black pu- 

 bescence on the first, second, and base of the third segments. 



Hah. Mexico, Oajaca. 



2. Habropoda agilis. 



Male. Length 5| lines. — Head and thorax black, abdomen fer- 

 ruginous. The clypeus much produced and yellowish- white ; 

 the mandibles, labrum, scape in front, and a triangular macula on 

 each side of the face of the same colour ; the front with faintly 

 yellowish pubescence, mixed with black at the sides of the clypeus ; 

 the cheeks and thorax beneath with white pubescence, above it is 

 pale ochraceous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures black, the tegular 

 pale testaceous : the base of the posterior tibiae and the four apical 

 joints of the tarsi ferruginous. The abdomen with thin pale pu- 

 bescence on the basal segment ; the apical margins of the segments 

 pale testaceous, and fringed with pale pubescence ; the two apical 

 segments thinly covered with the same. 



Hah. Mexico, Oajaca. 



