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basal carina pale, nearly straight, narrower in the middle, and in front 

 of this point is a faintly impressed longitudinal line; eyes dark brown, 

 the throat and the suture between the cheeks blackish. Bucculae black, 

 the rostrum reaching to the posterior coxiie, greenish-yellow, with a small 

 piceous tip. Antenn.ie mcKlerately thick, yellow, tinged with piceous, 

 the two apical joints darker, the base of third pale ; second joint largest, 

 about as long as the pronotum, the third a little longer than the basal 

 one, and more slender than the second; fourth shortest. Pronotum 

 with a regular curving slope toward the sides and front, smooth, pol- 

 ished, coarsely punctate, with a small black arc behind each callosity, a 

 brownish cloud across the base, and a longitudinal, black, short stripe 

 on the deliexed, punctate sides; surface a very little pubescent; poste- 

 rior margin arcuated, the edge sharp, and faintly recurved ; sternum 

 blackish, the meso- and mata-pleurfe dull black, margined with yellow. 

 Ooxne and legs greenish .yellow, the knees and tips of tibite tinged with 

 brown, and the apex of the tarsi with che nails piceous. Scutellum 

 pale yellow, black at base, indistinctly and very minutely punctate, 

 transversely rugulose, minutely pubescent. Corium dull yellow or yel- 

 lowish-green, with a large brown cloud at tip and the whole clavus 

 brownish, distinctly and closely finely puuctate, minutely pubescent, 

 the costal margin brighter yellow; cuneus dull yellow, margined be- 

 hind with brown ; membrane with a cloud at tip, the nervures and a 

 tinge at base brown. Venter bright yellow, highly polished, impunc- 

 tate, minutely pubescent, with a streak of brown each side, extending 

 from the base, but not reaching to the tip. 



Length to tip of venter 3^-4 millimeters. Width of pronotum 1^ 

 millimeters. 



Beaten by myself from bushes in Olear Creek Caiion, August 7. It 

 occurred singly, but was not at all rare. My short stay in that locality 

 prevented me from collecting them in large numbers. 



Mf.gacqelum Fieber. 

 1. M.fasciatum, new sp. 



Long-oval, yellow, stout, minutely and closely pubescent. Head 

 broad and stout, five-angled, blunt, vertical, brownish-yellow, im])unc- 

 tate, broadly, obsoletely channeled transversely in front of the slender 

 basal carina; vertex convex; tylus moderately prominent, curving in- 

 feriorly ; face paler or orange, sometimes tinged with rufous; throat and 

 bucculai rufous. Rostrum reaching to the posterior coxte; basal joint 

 red, a little longer than the throat; remaining joints yellow, the second 

 longest. Anteuuai stout, reddish-yellow, paler at base; second joint a 

 little longer than the pronotum, becoming slightly thicker toward the 

 tip; third thicker than the preceding, and about oue-third shorter; 

 fourth thick, a little I6?iger than the basal one. Pronotum short, min- 

 utely rugulose and obsoletely punctate, polished, pale chestnut-i)rown, 

 more or less tinged with rufous; the lateral margins very ol)lique, 



