86 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



black stripe ("la cercle noire de la poitrine"), and with a median 

 longitudinal black stripe on its anterior half and a transverse isolated 

 black mark near its hind end. 



Habitat. — Brazil : Santa Catherina, i d\ Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



12. Hetaerina macropus Selys. 



Hetcerina macropus Calvert, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Neurop., pp. 21, 34, 346, 1901, 1907. 



Habitat. — Colombia: Bonda, July, 2 9, August, 4 d\ 5 9, Sep- 

 tember, 2 cT, 1 9, October, 1 d\ 3 9, November, 2 6\ 1 9 ; Onaca, 

 August, 2 cj\ 2 9 ; Cacagualito, August, 1 9 ; all in Dept. Magda- 

 lena, by H. H. Smith. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Venezula : La Guaira, by Lyon and Robinson, July 3, 1900, 6 c? ; 

 San Julian, by M. W. Lyon, Jr., July 20, 1900, 49. U. S. National 

 Museum. 



13. Hetaerina charca sp. nov. 



(Plate I, figs. 3-5.) 



6\ Head black, some metallic-coppery reflections on the upper sur- 

 face ; rhinarium, external surface of mandibles, a small adjoining spot 

 on the gen?e, a smaller spot on each side of the labrum, submentum, 

 mentum, and some adjoining parts of the labium, pale yellow. 



Thorax metallic-green or coppery, the following markings pale 

 yellowish-brown or orange-brown : a humeral stripe wider below, most 

 of the metapleura (excepting a median dark stripe on the metepister- 

 num reaching from the upper margin of that sclerite down to, or almost 

 to, or half-way to, the metastigma, and a subequally wide or narrower 

 median dark stripe on the metepimeron which reaches to neither the 

 upper nor the lower margins of the sclerite, or the metepisternal stripe 

 broken into two isolated upper and lower streaks, and only a short 

 superior line to represent the metepimeral), a postero-inferior spot on, 

 or all of, the mesinfraepisternum, the metasternum (except for a trans- 

 verse terminal posterior blackish band). Anterior mesothoracic mar- 

 gin, mid-dorsal carina, upper margin of mesopleura and metepister- 

 num, blade. Hind lobe of prothorax produced posteriorly. 



Abdominal segments 1-4 or 5 pale reddish-brown, 1 with a posterior 

 dorsal metallic-green spot, terminal fourth of 2 darker brown, posterior 

 eighth of 3 and 4 or 5 dark brown or almost blackish; 5 or 6-10 

 black, mid-dorsal carina of 10 terminating posteriorly in a short pro- 

 jecting spine. 



