828 MR. E. A. ELLIOTT ON THE 



roux ferrugineux. Les ailes sent lavees de bistre et leurs 

 nervux'es sent noires. Gette espece ressemble beaucoiip a la 

 precedente {annulator=ficrGattcs Lep. & Serv.). Elle n'en diflfere, 

 pour ainsi dire, que par sa taille moindre, par la couleur plus 

 foncee de ses ailes et par les valves de sa tariere qui sent plus 

 greles, sans anneau blanc, et dont I'extremite n'est pas lanceolee 

 comme dans Meg. annulator. Long, du corps 0"030, de la tariere 

 0-040. Hah. le Bresil ; collect, de M. Serville. 



" Le nom furccdus, qui porte cette espece, vient sans doute de 

 ce que le prothorax est echancre en avant. Cette disposition 

 existe dans le M. annidator, dont la partie anterieure du 

 prothorax est d'un roux ferrugineux." 



Schletterer writes : — " Brulle has described under the name of 

 annulator, a species previously named y^w■c«<^6s by Lepeletier and 

 Serville in 1825. JH^furcatus, which is sufficiently distinguished 

 from furcatus Lep. & Serv. by the entirely black terebral 

 sheaths and darker wings, must be re-named : I call it diversus." 



Megischus floridanus Davis. 



Megischus floridanus Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxiv. 

 p. 349 (1897/, $ S . 



" ? d^ — -$20 mm., ovipositor 22 mm. ; d" 6 rom. 



" Black, with head, thorax, and tarsi slightly reddish, decidedly 

 so in S ; guides of the ovipositor in $ with a broad white band 

 near the apex ; wings yellowish f usco-hyaline, nearer hyaline 

 in (S ; front, vertex, hind coxfe, and petiole strongly rugose and 

 more or less reticulate, distinctly so on vertex and prothorax, 

 and in $ on petiole, becoming finer towards apex ; front above 

 antennae very rough and with five tubercles distinct, the last 

 two placed between the hind ocelli ; heel segment of hind tarsus 

 with large, dense scopal pads. 



" Two specimens from Florida, collected by Mr. T. 0. Priddey." 



Stephanus frontalis Klug, Westw. 



Stephanus frontalis Klug, MSS. ; Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. iii. p. 276 (1843) (sine descript.). 



" Species adhuc iuedita, in Mus. Reg. Berolinensis conserv. 

 Habitat Caput Bonse- Spei.'' 



Stephanus spoliator Smith. 



Megischus spoliator Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 

 vii. p. 6 (1884), $ . Stephanus spoliator Schlett. Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit. xxxiii. p. 117 (1889), $ . 



" M. niger, mandibidis et antennarum basi rufis ; thorace 

 rugose; pedibus anticis et intermediis ferrugineis, tarsis posteri- 

 oribus rubris ; alis hyalinis. 



" Female. Length 7 lines. Black ; the mandibles, palpi, and 

 five basal joints of the antennas ferruginous ; the face rugose, the 



