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being 1 marked the same. It agrees with the group characters given 

 by Handlirsch, on p. 347 of his work, except that the first recur- 

 rent vein is received by the second submarginal cell, instead of the 

 first as in the female. 



The spots on the second abdominal -segment are occasionally ab- 

 sent, or enforced by the presence of an additional pair on the third 

 segment. 



3. Gorytes rufocinctus Fox. 



Gorytes rufocinctus Fox, Can. Ent., 1892, p. 153, 9 



Washington State. This may be the female of piceus Hdl. , 

 which I have not seen. 



4. Gorytes piceus Hdl. 



Gorytes piceus Handlirsch, I.e., p. 455, $ 



British Columbia. Unknown to me and may be the $ of rufo- 

 cinctus. The face, antenna? and legs are said to be more or less 

 yellow, and the second dorsal laterally and the second ventral rufo- 

 brunneous. 



5. Gorytes mellinoides n. sp. 



9 . — Eyes diverging toward the clypeus, the latter convex, its 

 anterior margin a little incurved medially; antenna? long, slender, 

 the first joint of flagellum longer than the scape aud pedicellum 

 united; suture between dorsulum and scutellum foveolate; mesos- 

 ternum carinated anteriorly, with the epimerum and episternum of 

 the mesothorax not separated ; middle segment with the enclosure 

 well marked, and large, divided by a central furrow and longitu- 

 dinally striated on basal third, otherwise finely punctured; wings 

 clear, a slight fuscous cloud including part of the marginal, second sub- 

 marginal and part of third discoidal cells, nervures and stigma testa- 

 ceous, submedian cell of posterior wings terminating at, or slightly 

 before, the origin of the cubital vein; legs with the medial and hind 

 tibia? spinose, the anterior tarsi with a distinct comb, pulvilli dis- 

 tinct; abdomen with first segment distinctly coarctate at apex, 

 second segment much broader, sides rounded, pygidial area coarsely 

 and sparsely punctured, not distinctly ridged laterally, second ven- 

 tral strongly punctured. Black; clypeus, except apical margin 

 and a basal spot, inner orbits, spot between antenna?, scape, pedi- 

 cellum and first flagellum joint basally beneath, line on pronotum 

 and scutellum, the fore and medial coxa?, trochanters and femora 



