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(2) C. californica sp. n. 



$ . Length, 3.5 mm. Black, coarsely rugose; frons with coarse longi 

 tudinal grooved lines; face below antennae transversely striate ; scape, 

 pedicel, and legs, except the coxae, brownish-yellow; coxae and flagellum 

 black; femora obfuscated toward base. The flagellar joints after the 

 third are broken, but each of those present is furnished with a branch 

 longer than the scape. Thorax high, gibbous, more elevated than in C. 

 gibbosa Prov. ; the metathorax with a depression on each side. Wings 

 hyaline; the tegulse and the base of the subcostal nervure brownish. Ab 

 domen clavate, polished black; the petiole long and slender, as long as 

 the body of abdomen, and finely striate. 



Hab. Santa Cruz Mts., Cal. 



Type in National Museum. 



Described from a single specimen collected by A. Koebele. 

 STILBULA Spinola. 



(1) S. montana Ashm. Bull. No. i, Col. Biol. Assoc. 1889, 

 p. 24. 



Hab. West Cliff, Col. 



Up to the present time the above species, collected by Mr. T. 

 D. A. Cockerell, is the only species known in our fauna. 



MET AGE A Kirby. 



In this genus only a single species is known, M. zalates 

 Walker, from Australia. 



To this I now have the pleasure of adding a second species, 

 collected by Mr. E. A. Schwarz in Maryland and the District of 

 Columbia. 



(2) M. schivarzii sp. n. 



(J 9- Length, 1.5 to 2 mm. Black; antennae fuscous, the pedicel be 

 neath yellowish ; legs, except coxae, brownish-yellow, the femora toward 

 base, especially the hind pair, sometimes obfuscated; coxae black; wings 

 hyaline, with a subobsolete cloud beneath the stigma. The head, except 

 the stemmaticum, and the thorax except anteriorly, smooth, polished, 

 impunctate ; the parapsidal furrows and a central furrow feebly defined by 

 minute punctures; scutellum, conical, convex, with a longitudinal central 

 furrow, and the apex margined but not bidentate; pleura and metathorax 

 rugos'e. Antennae n-jointed, in 9 subclavate, scarcely reaching to the 

 tegulae, the scape and pedicel very short, the first funiclar joint being the 

 longest joint and as long as the two former united, the following joints 

 gradually shortened towards the apex; in $ filiform, longer, reaching to 

 the metathorax ; the third joint also the longest, but the following are twice 

 as long as thick. 



Hab. District of Columbia and Maryland. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



