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red, Mnd coxae black, bind femora witb numerous small blackisb 

 teeth ; tibiae rather darker than the femora. "Wings iridescent 

 hyaline, with piceous costal nervure. Hah. Greorgia. 



This species was mixed with S. sispes in the British-Museum 

 collection ; but its smaller size and unicolorous femora will sepa- 

 rate it at once. 



Smicea igneoideSj n. sp. 



Exp. al. 5 lin. ; long. corp. S^ lin. 



"Warm yellowish ferruginous, finely punctured. Antennae 13- 

 jointed(?), black except the scape beneath, scape very long; sutures 

 of the thorax, a longitudinal stripe on the mesothorax and scu- 

 tellum, two oblique stripes on the sutures of the pleurae, the 

 hindermost most distinct, a longitudinal dash on the outside of 

 the hind coxae, and the extreme tip of the abdomen black ; petiole 

 short, not one fourth of the length of the abdomen, which is 

 smooth and shining, and has a rather indistiuct yellow stripe 

 towards the base ; teeth of the hind femora exceedingly minute. 

 "Wings hyaline, clouded towards the base. Hah. United States. 



Close to S. ignea, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 92 (1865), 

 but may be distinguished at once by the unicolorous metathorax. 

 This species was confounded with S.fulvescens, "Walk, Ent. Mag. 

 ii. p. 25 (1834), in the British-Museum collection. 



Smicea foveata, n. sp. 



? ? Smiera cor.tacta, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ii. p. 184 (1864). 



Exp. al. 5 lin. ; long. corp. 2 lin. 



Deep orange, including the face and under surface of the scape 

 of the antennae ; antennae otherwise brown above, reddish be- 

 neath ; antennal grooves edged with black ; ocelli black ; occiput 

 black ; prothorax with a black spot in the middle in front ; meso- 

 thorax edged before and behind with black (the front stripe 

 dentated behind), and with three longitudinal stripes, those on the 

 side lobes incomplete behind ; scutellum wider than broad, marked 

 with a black isosceles triangle, and with two widely separated 

 teeth behind ; petiole moderately stout, about half the length of 

 the abdomen, which is marked with transverse reddish sti'ipes, 

 shading into blackish on the back. Hind legs, tips of coxae and 

 trochanters black ; femora with a large black spot below, near 

 the base, visible on both sides, a spot on each side above, near 

 the middle, that on the outside narrower than that on the inside; 



