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divided from the procephalon by a deep notch; procephalon erect and truncated ; 
colour warm ochreous-brown, with a narrow transverse whitish fascia. 
The carinations are marked as brown panelled streaks ; surfaces punctured ; thorax 
dark brown ; legs yellow, stout, with the hind tibiae serrated ; abdomen yellow and 
ringed. 
Size, 7x4 mm. 
Habitat .—New York, America. 
From the Wollaston Collection. 
There are two small specimens in the British Museum Collection, fixed on the 
same pin, very like Entylia concha, the chief differences of which consist, in only 
having pale ochreous broad bands on the pronotum instead of the white felt-like 
patches. They differ also in size, but the above variations may be only sexual. I 
do not suppose them to constitute new species. 
Other species of Entylia and Publilia not hitherto mentioned are : 
Entylia gemmata, Germ^A 1 . corniculata, Fairm. l.c. p. 300, PI. V. fig. 31. E. incisa, Walk. l.c. 
p. 548. E. yemmata, Fowl. l.c. p. 131. Guatemala. 
Publilia porrecta, Fowl. l.c. p. 131. Mexico. 
E. bactriana, Fairm. l.c. PI. Y. fig. 32. North America. 
E. reducta, Walk. l.c. p. 549. United States. 
Genus : METHEISA, Fowler. 
The genus Metheisa has mixed characters and affinities with several genera, such 
as Entylia, Publilia, Hille, and Lucella. 
Although the neuration of the wings is different, in the carination of the 
pronotum it resembles Polyglypta. The tegmina shows four apical and two discoidal 
areas. These last are described as mostly long in shape. The wings have four 
apical, but no discoidal areas. 
Legs are slender and furnished with elongated tarsi. Examples differ much in 
size and colour, but they are generally small insects. 
The material at my disposal was too small to allow me to draw the neuration of 
the hyaline tegmina. Species occur either with, or without the short procephalic 
horn, the presence of which does not appear to be connected with the sex of the 
insect, but at present it is not safe to generalise on this secondary character. 
METHEISA LUCILLODES. 
(Plate XXXIX. fig. 7.) 
Fowl. l.c. Tab. VIII. figs. 13, 13a, p. 132. 
Varies much in respect of colour from greenish-ochreous to fuscous or even 
blackish; pronotal horn short, obtuse, and not always developed; if present, it is 
