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pale liair ; pale yellow markings as follows: — base of man- 

 ilibk'H, upj)er part and middle of clypeus (but not lower 

 coniors or luari^in, wliicli are brown), transverse supiaclypeal 

 ni.irk, tubercles coniiectin*:; witb baud across prothorax 

 (sli^^litly interrupted in middle), scutellum (except irregular 

 anterior edge), and postscutelluu). Process of labrum brown, 

 extremely broadly truncate ; clypeus sparsely j)unctured ; 

 facial quadrangle broader tlian long ; eyes pea-green ; 

 flagellum very bright ferruginous beneath except at base, 

 and red at apex above; me.sothorax dull, minutely granular ; 

 area of metathorax granular, scarcely defined ; legs rutb- 

 [)icoous, the tarsi ferruginous ; anterior and middle knees and 

 their tibiae at base outwardly pale yellow ; anterior tibijB 

 ferruginous in front ; tegula3 testaceous, with a yellow spot. 

 Wings |)ale brown ; nervures and stigma (which is rather 

 large) dull red; b. n. falling far short of t.-ni. ; first r. n. 

 joining second s.m. a short distance from its end. Abdomen 

 rather long and narrow, shining black, with broad ferru- 

 ginous bands at bases of second and third segments, ex- 

 tending downwards (caudad) at sides, and some red at sides 

 of fuurth ; third and fourth segments with very tliin hair- 

 bands ; apex with oclireous hair ; pygidial jjlale large. The 

 thin scopa of hind tibise has collected orange pollen. Max- 

 illary pal[)i 6-jointed. 



JIab. Acayuizotla, Guerrero, Mexico, 3500 ft., October, 

 2 ? (//. //. Smith ; British Museum). 



Very distinct by the yellow scutellum and postscutelluin, 

 but somewhat related to the Mexican F. modtsta (Saiitli). 



Chelynia herlerti, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6 mm. 



Black, with cream-coloured markings. Very close to 

 C. permaculata (Ckll.), but much larger, wings strongly 

 dusky in marginal cell and apical field; instead of spots 

 above eyes are long transverse stripes (each longer than the 

 interval between them), mesothorax anteriorly with two 

 transverse spots, teguUi? with small light spots, transverse 

 dorsal marks on third and fourth abdominal segments only 

 narrowly sepaiated, and none of them as widely separated as 

 half the length of one. Also veiy close to C. uyssonoides 

 (Brues), but second r. n. joining second s.ni. nearer end, 

 wings dusky, vertex and mesothorax punctured about alike, 

 bands instead of spots on head above, lateral spots on first 

 abiiomlnal segment not larger than the middle ones, and 

 other small details. 



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