24 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



Description of female. Body, lenijth 9.7111111., width 2.58 mm.; clear pale 

 brown with dark brown markings. 



Head, length 1. 46 mm., width 1.66 mm. ; large, broader than long, front mar- 

 gin truncate with many short and several longer hairs on the margin ; one short and 

 two longer hairs in the rounding angle near the suture, a few long weak hairs on the 

 dorsal surface of the front ; the front half on the distinctly convex margin of the an- 

 tennal fossa bears three long hairs and several short spines, and the hinder half is 

 without hairs save one that arises on the ventral surface and extends beyond the mar- 

 gin, and a few short spines just in front of the eye ; eye small and round, inconspicu- 

 ous ; temporal margins diverging in an even line to a rounding angle where they curve 

 in to meet the concave occipital margin ; a series of six short stiff hairs on the front 

 even margin of the temples ; two long fine hairs in the rounding angle, two short 

 spines just back of these, a single spine in the rounding angle of the occiput and 

 temple ; antennas concealed in fossae ; labial palpi extending beyond the sides of the 

 head nearly the length of three stout joints that are of nearly equal length, a short 

 strong hair m the outer anterior angle of the third and fourth segments, color pale 

 brown of the head, mandibles with dark tips on teeth ; darker marginal bands on each 

 side of the front fading inwardly to the mandibles ; antennal fossae rimmed with dark 

 brown fading inwardly, lower inner half darkest brown curving in around the clear 

 circular space through which the antenna; show ; anterior margin of temples with a 

 broad dark band, growing narrower on the posterior incurving margin of the temples ; 

 occipital margin with a narrow dark band, a dark median blotch on the head between 

 the temples ; posterior half of blotch broadly heart-shaped, anterior portion broad at 

 median blotch but dividing into two narrow bands that diverge, growing pale as they 

 approach the antennal bands, a clear uncolored circular space in middle of the blotch, 

 and a clear V-shaped line about the posterior margin of the heart-shaped dark blotch. 



Prothorax shorter than the head and not as wide as the head through the temples ; 

 anterior portion narrow fitting into the occipital cavity, a distinct constriction abruptly 

 separates this anterior portion from the posterior portion ; sides rounding, the posterior 

 margin deeply emarginate, bearing the posterior angles as obtusely pointed, backward 

 projecting processes civerlapping the metathorax ; series of short stiff spines on the 

 margin of the outer anterior half (of the front margin) of the jjrothorax, one long 

 slender hair in the anterior angle, one long hair in the angle at the constriction and a 

 series of about nine long hairs along the rounding lateral margins, four shorter hairs 

 and a spine in the obtuse posterior angles ; ground color pale brown, anterior margin 

 with a narrow band of darker brown that disappears at the anterior angles, dark brown 

 to black on the lateral margin darkest at the constriction and the angle immediately 

 posterior to it, growing very narrow and lighter at the posterior angles and on the 

 posterior margins ; a narrow uncolored median line extends the whole length of the 

 prothorax with a pale brown band on each side, a narrow chitinous bar crosses 

 the anterior half of the prothorax, meeting a broader lateral bar which curves inwardly 

 from the anterior angle of the thorax, then down to the posterior portion where it 

 curves in again to meet the narrow posterior brown band. Metathorax and meso- 

 thorax bell-shaped and continuous in outline with the abdomen, separated from each 

 other by a distinct suture, anterior angles broadly rounding with two short hairs, sides 

 gradually diverging, with a series of long and short hairs on the margin, posterior 



