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"Walker regarded tliis insect as probably the female of his 

 S. certa; but it differs considerably from his type, which, appears 

 to be likewise a female. 



Smicba decipiens, n. sp. 



Exp. al. 6 lin. ; long. co"rp. 3|^ lin. 



Black; scape beneatli and inner orbits broadly yellow; pro- 

 thorax edged behind with yellow, the stripe emitting a slender 

 brancb obliquely forward on each, side; mesothorax somewhat 

 more coarsely punctured than in 8. discolor, the upper part of the 

 middle and side lobes edged with yellow ; scutellum with a yellow 

 band in front ; and there is a yellow spot on the metathorax on 

 each side of this ; the scutellum is bidentate, and bordered witli 

 yellow behind and at the sides more narrowly than in discolor, 

 but continuously ; petiole very short and stout, yellow ; abdomen 

 yellow, banded Avith black in the middle, the black portion en- 

 closing a yellow line on each side near the extremit}^ Four front 

 legs yellowish, femora black nearly to the extremity, and tibiae 

 with a black line on the outer side. Hind coxse yellow with a 

 black triangular spot at the base beneath, trochanters black, 

 femora black with a yellowish tawny mark at the base beneath, 

 and a stripe of the same colour near the tip extending almost all 

 round, armed below with two small and five very large teeth. ; 

 tibiae black, witb a yellow band near the middle ; tarsi yellow, 

 the last joint black. Wings brownish hyaline, with blackish 

 nervures. Hob. Villa Nova, Amazons. 



Closely resembles S. discolor, Walk. Journ. Ent. i. p. 180 

 (1861). 



Smicea Buemeisteei, n. sp. 



Exp, al. 5 lin. ; long. corp. 3 lin. 



Dull yellow ; antenuse brown, clothed with dense greyish pile, 

 scape yello w beneath, antennal fossa black ; mandibles tipped 

 with black; occiput and adjacent portion of prothorax black; 

 central lobe of mesotborax either wholly black or broadly 

 bordered with black before and bebind and with a central 

 black line, lateral lobes with a tliick black stripe ; hinder and 

 lateral sutures of the mesothorax and a band behind and below 

 the scutellum black; petiole reddisb above and black on the 

 sides, rather more than half the lengtb of the remainder of 

 the abdomen, which is oval, yellow at the base, lind black (banded. 

 with yellow on the upper side) beyond ; legs yellow, hind legs : — • 



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