356 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



FKMALE8. 



Marginal cell closed. 

 Wings fuscons «)r snbfiiscoiis. 

 Coxa- blaik, legs honey -yellow. 



Flagelluni fuscous H. monilicornxs Aslim. 



Coxa' and legs lirownish-yellow. 



Flagelluni hrowuish-ycUow, the three apical joints dusky. 



Metathorax without a niediau carina B. fhomai.is sp. iiov. 



Coxa> and legs rufous. 



Metathorax with a forked luetlian cariua B. ERYTHUoPrs sp. uov. 



Marginal cell open. 

 Wings hyaline. 

 Metathorax with a forked median keel B. texaxa sp. uov. 



Belyta monilicoruis Ashui. 

 Bnll. No. 1, Col. Biol. Assoc, p. 12. 



9 . Length, 3"'". llobust. black, sliiuiug, covered with a fine fuscous 

 pubescence. Eyes bristly. Mandibles piceous. Antenna' 15-jointed, 

 the flagellar Joints after the tirst nioniliforni, the first joint about twice 

 as loDg as the pedicel; the scape reddish brown, the rest of the an- 

 tenna' dark fuscous. >Ies()m)tal furrows distinct, but not deeply im- 

 pressed. Scutelhun w^th a large fovea at biise. Mesopleura ileeply 

 impressed posteriorly. Metathorax truncate and squared off at apex. 

 Legs dark honey yellow, the coxje black, the hind femora slightly dusky 

 above in the middle. Abdomen about as long as the head and thorax 

 together, smooth and polished : the petiole stout, a little longer than 

 thick, grooved and hairy above; the second segment, which occupies 

 the larger portion of the body of the abdomen, has a median longitudi- 

 nal furrow at base; apex surrounded by si)arse, whitish hairs. Wings 

 subhyaliiie, pubescent, the marginal cell closed, about twice as long as 

 the marginal vein, the first branch of the radius or stigmal vein oblique. 



HABITAT.— West CliflF, Col. 



Type 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a specimen received from T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Belyta frontalis, sp. nov. 

 . (PI. XIV, Fig. 4, 5.) ■ " > ■ 



9. Length, 3'"'". Polished black, the abdomen brownish; frontal 

 prominence very large, half the length of the head. Antennie 15- 

 joiuted, incrassated toward tips, moniliforni, brownish yellow, the two 

 or three aincal joints fu.scous; scape very long, stout; first flagellar 

 joint twice the length of the pedicel, the following joints to the last 

 moniliform, the last oblong. Mandibles, pali)i, and legs pale brownish 

 yellow. Metathorax without a median carina, but with delicate lateral 

 cariuai, the disk polished, the apex margined, the lateral angles acute. 

 Wings subhyaliiie, the venation pale, the marginal vein one-third 



