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long, the latero-posterior margins much extended, posterior margins feebly 

 sinuated, almost entirely covering the basal field of the scutellum. Elytral 

 nervures inconspicuous, ultimate ventral segment of the female but little 

 longer than the penultimate, apex truncated, almost parallel with the basal. 

 Valve of the male inconspicuous, broad triangular, its apex truncated, plates 

 hardly twice the length of the valve, much shorter than the pygofers which 

 together with the plates form a long triangular segment. Length 3 to 

 2>y 2 mm. 



Color a soft fulvous brown. Head pale yellow; two small dots on the 

 vertex placed close to the basal margin and wide apart, a larger angular spot 

 close to the inner angle of the eye, a minute dot below this placed near to 

 the inner margin of the eye, the ocelli and antennal pits, black; on the apex 

 of the vertex is a slightly discolored patch on which may be a basal brown 

 dash or point. Pronotum a little paler about the borders; two small distinct 

 black dots placed well forward on the disk and two minute points close to 

 the anterior margin either side of a slender short median dash, dark brown 

 or black. Scutellum yellowish with the minute acute tip deep black; the 

 incised transverse line brown. Elytra pale, subhyaline, highly polished, the 

 nervures inconspicuous and a little paler; across the middle of the elytra 

 a darker band is indicated mostly by a fuscous cloud near the commissural 

 margin of the clavus." Abdomen dusky beneath; disk of the tergum black. 

 Pleural pieces deep black, edged with pale; feet pale, claws black. 



Described from one male and three female examples 

 taken at Mandeville, March 29th, and Montego Bay, April 8th. 

 This very distinct form cannot be confused with any described 

 species known to me. A larger but closely allied species 

 recently taken near Buffalo, N. Y., seems to be still undescribed. 



Note: — Agallia repleta n. sp. 



Male: General appearance of 4-punctata Prov. but smaller and more 

 slender. Clear brownish testaceous tinged with fulvous on the face and with 

 yellow on the scutellum. Front rather strongly constricted below the eye; 

 clypeus and a large spot in the antennal cavities deep black; frontal sutures, 

 an angled line bounding its base, an elongated curved line on each side of 

 the front, a dot on each ocellus and a larger round spot above them on the 

 vertex black. Pronotum with five black spots on the disk, one median and 

 four forming a quadrangle of which the anterior are nearer, and on the 

 anterior border is a black line behind each eye. Scutellum with a triangular 

 spot well within the basal angles connected by another on the incised line. 

 Elytra fuscous hyaline with the nervures pale, simple. Beneath black with 

 the connexivum and genital pieces testaceous. Legs fulvo- testaceous. 

 Valve very large, cut square across the broad apex, plates small, triangular, 

 subacute. Length 2^ mm. 



The female differs from the male in having the black marks on the face 

 more extended and in having those of the pronotum represented by a curved 

 black line, concave anteriorly, touching the anterior margin at either end, 

 and faint indications of the median and two posterior discal spots. Elytra 



