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Mantispilla scabrosa, new species. 



Pale; a broad median brown stripe on face down over lab rum, a narrow 

 brown stripe each side between antennae and the eye; antennae mostly 

 pale, but with dark tip, before which it is paler than elsewhere; vertex 

 with a few dark spots; pronotum pale, quite long, broad in front, but taper- 

 ing evenly behind, clothed above with many short, stiff black bristles; 

 thorax darker on sides above, the lobes with black bristles; pleura dark, 

 with faint yellow streaks; legs pale, femur I reddish brown, blackish within; 

 abdomen dark, unmarked. Wings hyaline, subcostal area and stigma 

 reddish brown, a faint dark cloud under stigma on the cross-vein; venation 

 blackish; first radial cell with one branch, second with two or three, third 

 with two, second cell much narrowed at tip; cells beyond stigma higher 

 than long; cross-vein between first and second radial sectors as long as 

 width of costal area. 



Expanse, 28 mm. 



From Mesilla, New Mexico (Morse). 

 Mantispilla pulchella, new species. 



Pale; a narrow median brown stripe on the face, forked at base of an- 

 tennae, basal joint of antennae pale, beyond dark brown; pronotum long, 

 brown on each side, above with scattered fine, short, pale hairs, likewise 

 some on the lobes of mesonotum, thorax pale yellowish, marked with dark 

 brown on pleura and in front, legs pale, front femora, except base, reddish 

 brown, darker within, middle and hind femora with dark line beneath on 

 basal part. Abdomen pale, darker on venter, above with some dark spots. 

 Wings hyaline, subcostal area and stigma pale yellowish, veins black, 

 except median and radius, which are pale; radial cells broad, each with but 

 one branch in the fore-wings; in hind wings with one branch from first 

 radial cell, two from second cell, none from third; cells beyond end of stig- 

 ma longer than high. 



Expanse, 20 mm. 



From Eureka, Utah, July 22 (Spalding) 



