Vol. xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Xiphydria hicoriae new species. 



This species is closely allied to maculata Say hut may easily 

 he distinguished by the characters given in the foregoing key. 

 The females are easily separated from those of macnlaia by 

 the black flagellum and the males can he recognized from those 

 of inoculata by the more shining abdomen. 



9. Length to end of abdomen 12 mm.; sheath 2 mm. beyond the 

 end of abdomen. Head between the eyes coarsely reticulate, with 

 more or less distinct lines radiating from the ocelli: posterior orbits 

 below obliquely striate ; posterior orbits above and head behind the 

 ocelli polished, practically without sculpture; orbital carinae stronii 

 almost complete; antennae rather long, extending to the tegulac. 17- 

 jointed; second antennal joint more than half as long as the third 

 and distinctly longer than the fourth; mesoscutum coarsely reticulate; 

 prescutum well defined, V-shaped, longer than anterior width; scutel- 

 lum reticulate: tergites shining, finely granular along the apical mar- 

 gins, apical tergites polished. Black; inner orbits, posterior margin 

 of head (interrupted at top) two lines on vertex, dorsal margin of 

 pronotum, spot on lower margin of pronotum and small lateral spots 

 on tergites two, three, four and five yellowish white ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, venation dark brown. 



Paratypes indicate the species may be 18 mm. long, have the axillae 

 and lateral spots on tergites six and seven yellowish-white. 



$. Length n mm. Agrees well with female but the legs are 

 dark piceous and the tergal spots are on segments two to six in- 

 clusive. In some males the four anterior legs below trochanters 

 and the posterior tibiae and tarsi are rufo-piceous. 



Distribution: Harrisburg (type locality), Shiremenstown, 

 Pennsylvania (W. S. Fisher) ; Syracuse, New York (Black- 

 man). The species has also been taken at Westbury, Long Is- 

 land (A. R. Chamnlain). and at Castle Rock, Pennsylvania. 



Host-plant : Hlcoria. 



Type: Cat. No. -'1554 U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Xiphydria provancheri Cresson. 



Xiphidion canadcnsc Provancher, Nat. Can. vol. 7, 1875, p. 374 (not 



Xiphydria canadcnsis Provancher 1. c. p. 373). 

 Xif>h\dria proranchcri Cresson, Trail. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 8, 1880, 



p. 49. 



Type in first Provancher collection, Public Museum, Quebec, 

 bearing yellow label 138. 



