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Show 82 PEOF. P. E. UHLEE-ENUMEEATION OF THE [Jan. 15, bends forwards exteriorly and admits au ivory-white short streak ; near the base are several small pale spots and streaks, and on the membrane a few whitish oblong spots, ends of the three veins touching the claval margin broadly ivory-white. Abdomen black or brown, with the edges of the segments, lateral margins, and apical segments pale. Genital valve of male very short, bluntly rounded at the corners, the following segments composing a ligulate cover, rounded at the tip. Length to tip of wiug-covers 3-3^ mm.; width of pronotum | mm. This is a variable species, in which all the specimens at haud differ from each other in amount and pattern of marking; the paler specimens lack the brown ring on the vertex, and have that colour broken up in various figures. AGALLIA NIGEICANS, sp. nov. Black, polished, the tip of head a little more triangular than in the preceding species. Vertex with a large black spot each side, a line on the middle, two smaller dots below the upper ones, the inner border against the eyes, and a band on the forward margin also black ; front suboval, black, marked with traces of pale fulvous on the middle and sides, tip of clypeus also fulvous ; cheeks moderately wide, bordered and striped with pale fulvous ; rostrum piceous, paler at tip. Pronotum much longer than the vertex, obsoletely and minutely scabrous, feebly impressed each side, black, sometimes with two large fulvous spots at base, and usually with two small diagonal ones on the middle. Scutellum short, with a spot in each basal angle and the margin ivory-white. Legs more or less black, the coxse, knees, base and apex of femora, and underside of posterior tibia? pale fulvous. Wing-covers black, or brownish with the veins darker, the costal vein pale yellow; veins of the clavus and base of corium a little interrupted with fulvous, origin of the corium and a short stripe a little farther beyond ivory-white, the two middle apical cells longer than wide, subquadrangular. Abdomen mostly black, robust and not tapering in the male. Length to tip of wing-covers 2i-2f mm.; width of pronotum | mm. Eight specimens of this dull-coloured species were collected on the island. AGALLIA FASCIGEEA, sp. nov. Pale yellow, robust, with a wide head and somewhat wedge-shaped form. _ Vertex short, wide and blunt, with a black dot each side of the middle and sometimes a line in the centre ; the front about one-half longer than its upper width, situated below the seat of the antenna?, scarcely separated from the vertex, pale soiled yellow, stained brown above and on the margins ; superior maro-iu regularly curved, terminating each side in an angle above the |
