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Liris coxalis n. sp. Clypeus rounded and somewhat produced at apex; 

 fore coxae of male separated by two slender processes of prosternum, of 

 female contiguous. Length about one inch; Florida. Black; mandibles, 

 except apical third, tawny; tarsi, at least in the middle, brown. Face with 

 tawny pile; posterior tibia; of 9 and anal valve of 9 with brown hairs, 

 anal valve of $ silvery; thorax and first segment with pale hairs; $ apex 

 of segments one and two, $ apex of segments one, two and three, silvery. 

 Tegulae and wings pale ferruginous, apical third fusco-violaceous. Re- 

 sembles Tachytes elongatus Cr. in coloration, and is but little longer. 



TACHYSPHEX. 



Represented in this country by Larra analis Fab. ; it is scarcely 

 a distinct genus. It differs from Larra only in the hind ocelli 

 being oval, and the metathorax resembling Lyroda. Other sec- 

 tions of Larra and Tachytes have as good a claim to a generic 

 "name. 



LARROPSIS n. gen. 



LARROPSIS TENUICORNIS {Larrada tenuicornis Smith) Type. 

 Second submarginal cell petiolate. Resembles Ammosphecidium 

 in many characters, but differs in many others. I have taken this 

 species in Connecticut and upon the calyx nectar-glands of Te- 

 coma in Virginia. 



LYRODA SUBITA Say. This species is peculiar for its non-fos- 

 sorial tarsi, and may belong to Didineis (nee Alyson}. 'Its 

 method of carrying Nemobius, which it catches to feed its young, 

 is interesting. It holds the cricket by clasping the base of the 

 antennae between its mandibles and clypeus, the minute teeth here 

 preventing the antenna from slipping this explains the use of the 

 teeth on clypeus. 



BOTHYNOSTETHUS = PlSONITUS Shkd. = SlLAON PicC. 



Tachytes ccelebs Pttn. \s of T. ABDOMINALIS. 



Larra divisa Pttn. is 9 of L. ^ETHIOPS Cress. 



TACHYTES MANDIBULARIS Pttn. This species is common in 

 Hartford, forming hillocks, three or four inches in height and the 

 same in breadth of base, upon sidewalks and lawns about Sep- 

 tember first. It stores up Xiphidium for its brood. 



Equatorial Africa promises another treasure to civilization. It is a much 

 scented plant, the branches of which carried about the persons will 

 frighten away mosquitoes. Philadelphia Record. 



