REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGIST. 8 1 
semirufula begins well basad of the transverso-medial, as in sul¬ 
phur at a and not as in perivincta. 
Fflorctasia giilstlei, new species. 
Named after Professor Gillette, who has done so much for 
Colorado entomology. The type is a $ marked Colorado 2198. 
Taken at Golden, July 3rd, by C. P. Gillette. 
Length 91 mm.; head and thorax black, densely and coarsely punc¬ 
tured; facial quadrangle considerably broader than long; front concave; 
labrum, basal half of mandibles, clypeus, very broad lateral face marks 
ending at level of antennae, and broad marks beneath eyes, all chrome 
yellow; antennae lively ferruginous, fourth joint much longer than third; 
scape quite swollen, yellow in front, and with a black dash and dot be¬ 
hind; hair of head and thorax scanty, white; upper border of prothorax, 
tubercles, V-shaped mark beneath, and a spot on each side of the lower 
part of metathorax, all yellow; scuteilum with two minute red spots; legs 
a lively red, extreme base of anterior and middle tibiae with an obscure 
yellowish spot; middle femora with a small black spot at extreme base; 
hind femora nearly all black behind; tegulae punctured, whitish tinged 
with red; wings clear, yellowish along the nervures;stigma andnervures 
ferruginous; second submarginal cell broad above, receiving the recur¬ 
rent nervure a little beyond its middle; third at least as broad as sec¬ 
ond below, but narrowed more than half above, its outer margin bent; 
basalnervure a short distance basad of transverso-medial; abdomen yel¬ 
low, the bases of the segments black, their apical margins pale ferrugin¬ 
ous; the yellow band on the first segment is interrupted in the middle by 
a reddish triangle pointing posteriorly; apical plate narrow, feebly 
notched; venter yellow, banded with dark reddish brown. The face is 
bare, without the beautiful appressed white hair seen in N. elrodi. The 
colors of the abdomen recall N. civilis. 
Nomatia agynia, new species. 
One £ sent by Prof. Gillette, marked Colorado 2196, Golden, 
July, C. P. Gillette, collector. 
Length about 9 mm.: black with yellow markings; head broad, fac¬ 
ial quadrangle about square; basal two-thirds of mandibles, labrum, cly¬ 
peus, lateral face-marks (broad below, gradually narrowing to a point at 
top of eyes) and posterior orbits nearly to summit, all yellow; clypeus 
with the usual sutural black spots; supraclypeal mark obscure reddish, 
narrowly surrounded by black; antennae not very long, third joint much 
shorter chan fourth; scape stout, heavily marked with black on a red 
field above, yellow below (in front); flagellum dark ferruginous, blackish 
above, especially towards base; mesothorax dull, very densely and quite 
coarsely rugoso-punctate,tlie anterior lateral corners, and a few marks 
on lateral margin, red; upper border of prothorax, tubercles, scuteilum 
and postscutellum, yellow; pleura red with a broad curved transverse 
yellow band, and a large black spot beneath; metathorax black in the 
middle, the sides (encroaching on the enclosure) variegated with red and 
yellow; tegulae yellow,large,shining and rather sparsely punctured; wings 
quite long, hyaline, the apex blackened; stigma ferruginous, nervures 
fuscous; second submarginal cell broad below, but narrowed above; third 
broad below, and narrowed more than half above; basal nervure a short 
distance basad of transverso-medial; legs lively ferruginous, the hind 
femora and tibiae darker, the hind femora black behind except at base 
and apex; middle femora somewhat swollen, with a blackish spot on 
apical hall behind; knees, and a stripe on anterior tibiae, yellow; abdo¬ 
men rather broad, closely and minutely punctured; all the segments yel¬ 
low with black bases and ferruginous apical margins, the yellow of the 
