184 ASHMEAD 



rufo-testaceous. Metathorax with the areola hexagonal, a little wider 

 than long. Abdomen black, with the second segment at base and thq 

 second suture usually testaceous. 



The antennas are 2o-jointed, incrassated toward apex, black, with 

 the pedicel, and first joint of the flagellum, testaceous ; the first joint 

 of the flagellum is about two-thirds the length of the second, the third 

 only a little shorter than the second, joints 7 and 8 a little wider than 

 long, the following to the last a little longer than thick, the last joint 

 being oblong. 



Male. Length 3.5 to 3.8 mm. Resembles B. nigricornis and 

 agrees with it closely, except slightly in color and in two or three 

 slight structural characters : The antennae are 24-jointed, a little 

 slenderer, with the first joint of the flagellum a little longer than the 

 second : the palpi and tegulaa are yellowish-white ; the legs are black, 

 with the second joint of trochanters, the femora at apex (the front pair 

 very broadly), the tibias, except the hind pair at apex, and the tarsi, 

 except the posterior, rufo-testaceous ; apices of hind tibias and their 

 tarsi black or fuscous ; while the abdomen is black with the first suture 

 and the margins of the segments surrounding it, and the apex of the 

 second segment, testaceous. 



Type. Cat. No. 5584, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul Is- 

 land (Fur Seal Commission). 



BATHYMETIS SIMULANS sp. nov. 



Female. Length 5 mm. Polished black; mandibles and legs, 

 except the middle coxae basally, the hind coxas, first joint of trochanters, 

 anterior and middle femora basally, the hind femora, apices of their 

 tibiae and their tarsi, which are black, rufo-testaceous ; face below 

 antennae punctate, the clypeus well separated with some sparse punc- 

 tures ; palpi and tegulae yellowish-white. Antennae 2O-jointed. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and veins, except the median and submedian veins 

 basally which are yellowish, brown-black ; the areolet is irregularly 

 pentagonal, the recurrent nervure joining it beyond the middle. 

 Abdomen black, with the apex of the petiole and the lateral membra- 

 nous part and the second suture testaceous. 



Type. Cat. No. 5585, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul Is- 

 land, August 15 (Fur Seal Commission). 



BATHYMETIS RUBROCINCTA sp. nov. 



Female. Length 4.5 mm. ; ovipositor only two-thirds the length 

 of the petiole. Polished black, the face below the antennas closely 



