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Raphidia minuta, n. sp. 



Blackish, mandibles yellowish, basal joints of antennae pale, anterior 

 part of prothorax rather more reddish; legs pale yellowish ; wings hyaline, 

 pterostigma bicolored. Antenna; rather short and fine, prothorax nar 

 rowed in front and slightly constricted before the middle; its length 

 scarcely more than the head. Ovipositor as long as abdomen ; male gen- 

 italia very prominent and distinct. Wings with three cells beneath the 

 pterostigma as in /?. bicolor, and in other ways much like this species; 

 only six cross-veins in costal region. 



Length to tip of wings, 11-14 mm - 



Specimens from Williams, June 10 (type) to July 17; Flag 

 staff, July 5 ; also from Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico, 

 August 6. 



Type.- No. 6795, U. S. National Museum. 



Family MANTISPID^E. 

 Mantispa sayi Banks. 



One specimen. Williams, June 16 ; another, Hot Springs, 

 June 28. 



Previously known from Florida and Texas. 

 Symphasis signata Hagen. 



Two specimens from Hot Springs, June 27. Also from Santa 

 Rita Mountains, July 7 (Schwarz). 



This is a distinctly southern form, occurring in southern Cali 

 fornia and in Mexico. 



Family CHRYSOPID^. 

 Eremochrysa punctinervis McLachlan. 



Many specimens from Williams, May 29 to July 15 ; Oracle, 

 July 5 (Schwarz) ; San Simon, July 6 (Hubbard) ; Winslow, July 

 31 ; Catalina Springs, April 18, May 9 (Schwarz). 



A distinctly southern species, occurring from Texas to Cali 

 fornia. 

 Chrysopa schwarzi Banks. 



One from Prescott. April 10 (Oslar). 



The type is from New Mexico. 

 Chrysopa coloradensis Banks. 



Williams, July 22 and 25. 



Abundant in Colorado. 

 Chrysopa sabulosa Banks. 



One from Prescott, April 7 (Oslar) . 



The type is from Colorado. 

 Chrysopa chlorophana Burmeister. 



Bright Angel, July 12; Flagstaff, July ^ ; Prescott, April 4 

 (Oslar). 



A species of the northern States. 



