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Nomia punctata ?. Front and clypeus with rather strong, scattered 

 punctures; front strongly impressed medially, dorsulum more strongly 

 punctured than the front, very sparsely so on posterior portion; scutellum 

 sparsely punctured, strongly impressed down the middle; metathorax 

 with coarse, separated punctures, the enclosed transverse portion at base 

 rugose. Abdomen shining; distinctly, sometimes coarsely punctured. 

 Black; apical margins of dorsal abdominal segments 2-4, broadly greenish 

 white. Head, thorax and legs, more or less clothed with grayish pubes- 

 cence; tarsi testaceous, the first joint of hind tarsi within the bronzy pu- 

 bescence. Wings subhyaline, apical margins fuscous, nervures and stigma 

 dark testaceous. Length 10 mm. 



Var. (?) A specimen has the punctures of the dorsulum and abdomen 

 very strong and the tarsi black. 



Three specimens, Denver, Col. (E. V. Beales), Vega S. Jose, 

 N. Mex. (C. H. Tyler Tovvnsend) and Big Stone City So. Dak., 

 (J. F. Aldrich). Is at once distinguished from Nortoni by its 

 small size and the rather densely pubescent thorax; from the 

 Cuban species, Robinsoni, it is distinguished by the distinctly 

 punctured abdomen. 



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A NEW OPHION. 



By G. C. DAVIS, Agr. Coll. Mich. 



I take pleasure in dedicating this new species of Op hi on to 

 Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. who bred the specimen from a dark co- 

 coon of one of the larger species of Acronycta last season. The 

 parasitized cocoon was taken in Connecticut. 



Ophion slossonae n. sp. <j\ Length one inch, wing expanse one and 

 five-eighths inches. Dark honey-yellow, except eyes, ocelli, tips of man- 

 dibles, tarsal claws and extremities of tarsal joints on posterior legs, 

 which parts vary from dark brown to black. The wings are deep fuligi- 

 nous with black veins, except at extreme base and the stigma, which are 

 fulvous; the vein-stump in the cubito-discoidal cell comparatively long; 

 glabrous spot small, opaque like rest of the wing, obscure; metathorax 

 distinctly areolated. It has eight prominent ridges emanating from the 

 extremity o the thorax, the two central ones and the outer pairs close 

 together; these are crossed by two semicircular lines, the upper one ab- 

 breviated, and the lower one uniting with the outer radiating lines; petiole 

 of the abdomen much lighter in color below the abrupt constriction than 

 above. In other respects the species differs but little from O. glabratnin. 

 which it closely resembles in form and color. 



One specimen in collection of Am. Ent. Society, Philadelphia. 

 The fuliginous wings will at once distinguish the species. 



