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MR. F. SMITH O'S NEW SPECIES OF ACULEATE 



SoLENOPSis GEMiNATA, Ma?/r 'Roger. — Soleuopsis ceplialotes, 

 Smith, Joiirn. Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 140. $ major. — Atta gemi- 

 nata, Fahr. Sgst. Piez. p. 423. 



Hah. Honolulu. South America ; India ; A.v\x, Celebes, Bat- 

 ch iau. 



I found a single nest in a palm-tree, which seemed to contain 

 no other sex than the worker ; it stings very venomously. {T. B ) 



Tarn. SpHEGiDiE. 

 Pelopgeus flayipes, Fah\ Si/st. Pies. p. 204. 

 ITah. Honolulu. North America ; Mexico. 

 Very abundant everywhere. I have caught the female "carrying 

 spiders. (T. B.) 



Fam. Laebidj]. 



PisON miDiPENNis, n. sp. Male. Length 3 lines. Black ; 

 head and thorax finely and closely punctured, and slightly shi- 

 ning ; abdomen shining, and very delicately punctured. The face 

 with silvery -white pubescence as high as the emargination of the 

 eyes ; the palpi rufo-testaceous. The metathorax obliquely and 

 finely striated ; having a central longitudinal channel, and with 

 silvery- white pubescence laterally ; the wings hyaline and splen- 

 didly iridescent, the nervures black ; the legs with silvery pile, 

 which is very bright on the posterior tibiae within. Abdomen — 

 at the basal margin of the second segment laterally a little sil- 

 very-white pubescence, on the apical margins of the segments 

 laterally a little silvery pile, only observable in certain lights. 



Hah. Honolulu. 



Eare ; a single female taken, which differs sexually as in the 

 following species. {T. B.) 



PisoN nospES, n. sp. Female. Length 5^ lines. Black, shi- 

 ning, with the head and thorax closely and finely punctured, the 

 abdomen with fasciae of silvery-white pubescence. Head — the 

 face below the antennae with bright silvery pubescence, also a line 

 on the margin at the inner orbit of the eyes, as high as their 

 emargination; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. 

 Thorax — the hinder margin of the prothorax with a little silvery- 

 white pubescence, and also on the sides of the metathorax, which 

 has a deep central longitudinal channel ; the wings subhyaline, 

 the nervures black ; the legs covered with silvery pile ; the cal- 

 caria black. Abdomen much more finely and closely punctured 

 than the thorax; the segments slightly constricted; the apical 



