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Strongly ciliated, the veins dark brown; the marginal cell 

 except at basal one-third, open along fore margin. 



Antennae 13-jointed, black; scape not quite twice as 

 long as the pedicel, the latter oval; funicle 5-jointed, 

 slender, the first joint 2^ times as long as the second, 

 joints 2-3, moniliform, scarcely longer than thick, joints 

 4-5 a little longer; club 6-jointed, the joints, except the 

 last which is ovate, oblong-moniliform. Cup of scutellum 

 elliptic, with a small fovea posteriorly and four punctures 

 on its disk. Front wings with the second abcissa of radius 

 stouter and a little longer than the first. The metapleura 

 have a small tuft of wool just over the base of coxge, 

 while the abdomen is not longer than the head and thorax 

 united, with the usual woolly girdle at base. 



Described from one ? specimen from San Lazaro. 



Family TENTHREDINID^. 

 Hylotoma Latreille. 



6. Hylotoma pceciloides sp. n. 



S . — Length 8 mm. Testaceous; head, antennas, three 

 spots on anterior margin of pronotum, the lateral lobes 

 of the mesonotum, the tegulae, the wings (except a sub- 

 hyaline streak medially), the presternum, a line on each 

 side of the mesosternum, the anterior tarsi (except the 

 first joint beneath), middle and hind tibiae and their tarsi, 

 apex of the sixth abdominal segment and the following 

 segments, all black. 



Described from one S specimen from San Jose del Cabo. 



The species is allied to Hylotoma -poecila Klug and H. 

 intermedia Cam., but is readily recognized by its color: 

 From the former in haying the stigma and veins black, 

 not yellow, the wings being less distinctly banded at the 

 middle, while the anterior tibi« are pale not black. From 

 H. intermedia it differs in its smaller size, by the black 



