23G Mr. T. D. A. Cockevell — Descriptions and 



species differs principally as follows : — Sixth abdominal 

 segment without lateral teeth ; flagelliim normal, not espe- 

 cially thickened ; mesothorax more coarsely and densely 

 punctured ; liind femora and tibige stouter. There is no 

 material difference in the venation. The species is more like 

 the European //. adimca than the species of the United 

 States. 



Pasiphae cyanea melanitra, subsp. n. 



^ . — No red hair at end of abdomen, that on each side of 

 apical plate greyish black (sooty) ; tegulas shining black. 

 AVings quite dusky. 



Clmbut, Patagonia (from W. F. H. Rosenberg). U.S. 

 National Museum. The typical form is from Tierra del 

 Fuego, about 600 miles southward. 



J^omada carearaneyisis, sp. n. 



^ . — Length 10 mm. 



Kobust, with white pubescence in snpraclypeal region, on 

 sides and posterior part of thorax, and underside of abdomen. 

 Head bright ferruginous^ with the clypeus, very large cunei- 

 form lateral marks, malar space, and base of mandibles light 

 lemon-yellow ; face broad, inner orbits practically parallel ; 

 mandibles simple ; labrum red, ver}' hairy ; eyes pale reddish 

 grey ; face and front with coarse punctures, but a smooth line 

 down middle of clypeus ; scape bright ferruginous; Hagellum 

 ferruginous, strongly suffused with blackish above, except 

 at base ; third antennal joint much longer than fourth, but 

 not quite so long as fourth and fifth combined ; region of 

 ocelli blackened ; mesothorax red, with a strong median 

 channel, which is blackish ; surface of mesothorax shining, 

 with very large, irregular, partly confluent punctures; axillae 

 and the bilubed scutellum brighter red than mesothorax ; 

 yellow band on prothorax, and the tubercles, two spots on 

 pleura, and line on postscutellum also pale yellow ; sides of 

 thorax blackened, but middle of mesopleura red ; metathorax 

 red, with the basal area black ; tegulfe bright ferruginous, 

 wath scattered punctures. Wings brown, with a median 

 hyaline area ; nervures dark fuscous, stigma ferruginous ; 

 b. n. meeting t.-m.; second s.m. large, quadrate, receiving 

 first r. n. slightly beyond middle. Abdomen shining, finely 

 punctured ; first segment basally red, then reddish black, and 

 the margin with a yellow band ; remaining segments reddish 

 black, the second with a pale yellow band, broad at sides and 

 narrow in middle, the third with only a slight mark ou each 



