from the Bio Xautia, State of Vera Cruz, 19 



constricted, so as to appear like three rings or joints, besides 

 the bulbous base. Frontal callosity not brown on posterior 

 edge, wholly rust-yellow. Outer branch of the two blackish 

 abdominal markings quite obsolete, inner branch reaching 

 anterior margin of fourth segment. Front, face, palpi, and 

 basal joints of antennas all the same colour, which is a rust- 

 yellow. No lateral brown vitt^ on venter. The broad 

 middle band of wings is not straight on distal border but 

 convex ; the proximal border is concave, but the small and 

 adjoining cross-veins are well within this border. It agrees 

 •with the two Jamaican specimens mentioned by me (Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc. xxii. p. 56) in having the hyaline portions 

 of the wings the same as there described. Legs all rust- 

 yellow, tips of tarsi brownish. 



4. Hadrus lepidofus, Wied. 



One female, March 5, on the Estero (a deep inlet from the 

 sea) between San Rafael and Nautla. 



Length 8 millim. Others seen but not taken, being 

 difficult to catch. 



The eyes in life are red, with green outer border, and two 

 outwardly abbreviated transverse green stripes. The green 

 stripes are bordered and prolonged by a darker red than the 

 ground-colour of the eye. 



Agrees perfectly with Wiedemann's description, bat the 

 clear apical portion of the wing comprises less than one third 

 of the wing's length, and the whitish border is arcuate^ the 

 black being convex on distal border. Anal and fourth and 

 fifth (last two) posterior cells, also axillary portion of wing 

 and alula, hyaline — except that there is a subdetached piece of 

 brown, left by two of the white drop-like spots, in the base of 

 the fourth and fifth posterior cells, and the brown extends 

 into the outer edge of the fourth posterior cell on its apical 

 half, ending on the inner margin of wing in a pointed ex- 

 tension, which occupies about the basal half of second and 

 third posterior cells. On base of wing the black stops short 

 of inner margin of second basal cell. The white drop-like 

 spots are arranged as follows : one on junction of veins at 

 base of second posterior cell, one on small cross-vein, one in 

 extreme base of first basal cell, one each in first and second 

 basal cells before apex and opposite to each other, and two 

 on cross-veins at base of fourth and fifth posterior cells. 

 Scutellum with a coppery-purplish tinge. Middle and hind 

 tarsi white except blackish tips, front tarsi whitish on little 

 more than basal joint (metatarsus). 



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