112 Timehn. 



of the lateral lobes, a semicircular mark on the lobe at the sides of the base of 

 scutellum, a minute spot at the base of the scutellum laterally, a line down 

 the middle of the scutellum, the basal half of equal width, it then becomes 

 slightly dilated, then dilated into a semicircle which fills the apex of the scu- 

 tellum, the 2nd and following dorsal abdominal segments bear broad trans- 

 verse bands, the apex of the hind coxae, broadly above, narrowly below, a 

 line on either side of the femora above, the inner shorter and broader than the 

 outer, incised at the apex, dilated on the lowerside at the base, a spot 

 between the basal tooth, extending to the middle between it and the 2nd, 

 narrowed on the outerside below, rounded above and reaching near to the apex, 

 a semicircular mark on the apex, united to the mark on the innerside , and 

 the teeth, except the base of the middle 2, narrowly, and the basal half of the 

 apical, the basal fourth and apical of the hind tibiae and the apical joint of 

 the hind tarsi, black. Lower side of fiagellum fuscous. Wings hyaline, the 

 nervures black. Male. Length, 6 m.m. 



Potaro. May. D.F. 



Densely covered with white pubescence — Pro-mesonotum and scutellum 

 umbilieally punctate scutellum bluntly bilobate, the space between the lobes 

 smooth, depressed. Metanotum with 4 areae of almost equal size and longer 

 than wide on the 2nd row ; there are 4 wider ones round the apex. Pro- 

 pleurae smooth. Mesopleurae raised to a keel in the middle, the sides on either 

 side obliquelv sloped ; smooth above, reticulated below. The raised centre 

 of the metapleurae reticulated, the base and apex smooth. The femoral teeth 

 are long, oblique, the basal 3 sharp-pointed and become gradually shorter 

 as does also the space between them ; the apical is shorter, thicker and more 

 rounded. 



Tctrasmicra crocata, Walker. 

 Smicra crocata, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, 186. 



Tetrasmicra crocata, Ashmead, Mem. Cairn. Mus. i, 456 ; PI. XXXII, f, 2. 



A female agrees fairly well with Walker's description and with Ashmead's 

 figure, I.e. 



Hexasmicra microspila, sp. n. 



Yellow, the upperside of the antennal scape, a small spot, twice longer 

 than wide, on the lateral lobe of mesonotum, a line on the centre of the basil 

 three-fourths of the scutellum, faint at the base, gradually widened, but not 

 much towards the apex, and the femoral teeth, black ; the antennal fiagellum 

 reddish brown, black above ; the back of the abdomen infuscated ; Rings 

 hyaline, the nervures, fuscous. Apex of scutellum margined, broadly bilo- 

 bate. Metanotum with 3 rows of areae, the basal irregular, narrowed towards 

 the centre of the metanotum ; there are 6 areae in the centre, the middle 4 

 square, the outer smaller and roundly narrowed on the inner side ; there are 

 6 apical areae, the outer larger, wider and more regular than the central ; the 

 apex has an area almost twice longer than wide, rounded above, in the centre. 



