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as wide, the first abscissa of radius less than two-thirds the length 

 of the second. Abdomen with a faintly pubescent girdle at base. 

 Mount Gay Estate, Described from one female specimen. 



Aglaotoma, Forster. 



Table of Species. 



Females. 

 Species more or less pale 3. 



Species black, except sometimes the pleura. 

 Cox£B and legs reddish or brownish yellow. 



Cup of scuteUum small, narrow, ovate, or elliptic. 2, 



Cup of scuteUum large, oval, rimmed. 



Antennae much longer than the body, the 7 

 terminal joints black, fluted, about four 

 times as long as thick A. longiconiis, Aahm. 



2. Antennae longer than the body. 



Seyen terminal joints black ; abdomen at base 



piceous ; pleura black A. basalts, Ashm. 



Six terminal joints black ; abdomen black, except 



beneath at base ; pleura piceous A. similis, sp. n. 



3. Head black ; thorax dark brown or rufo-piceous. 

 Abdomen, legs, and first four joints of flageUum pale 



rufous. 

 Antennse not longer than the body, the 7 terminal 

 joints slightly thicker than the preceding, the 



last one-third longer than the preceding A. variabilis, Ashm. 



Reddish brown or pale ferruginous, the head with the 

 vertex and occiput only black. 

 Antennae longer than the body, joints 1-6 reddish 

 yellow, joints 7-11 brown-black, joints 12-13 



white ^. tricolor, sp. n. 



Antenna longer than the body, the 8 terminal joints 

 a little thicker than the preceding, the last 

 one-half longer than the penultimate A.pallida, Ashm. 



Males. 

 Species more or less pale 2. 



Species mostly black; coxte and legs reddish or 

 brownish yellow. 

 Antenna brown-black, If times the length of body, 

 the first flagellar joint not quite twice as long 

 as the second, the third and following joints 

 subequal, a little longer than the second, and 

 shghtly more than 3 times as long as thick, 



longitudinally striate ; metathorax black A. similis. 



Antennae, except scape, brown, nearly twice as long 

 as the body, the first flagellar joint about twice 

 as long as the second, stout and slightly curved, 

 the second and last joints equal, the intermediate 

 joints 3 times as long as thick, all fluted ; 



metathorax pale A. basalis, Ashm. 



2. Thorax rufo-piceous ; head and abdomen black. 

 First flagellar joint slightly longer than the fourth, 



the joints beyond about 4 times as long as thick. A. pallida, Ashm. 



(1) Aglvotoma similis, sp. A. 

 2 . Length 1 "4 mm. Polished black, the pleura more or less 



