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rated from the face by a distinct suture, the anterior margin 

 slightly arcuate, with a triangular emargination or incision on 

 either side; antennae filiform, the scape clavate; ocelli normal, 

 arranged in a triangle; occiput with a transverse furrow between 

 the raised occipital margin and the base of vertex; metathorax 

 fully as long as the mesonotum with a delicate median carina; 

 tibial spurs long, i, i, 2; iibiae with a few black spines; anterior 

 tarsi in 9 combed. 



Type Miscophinus laticeps. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



Black. 



Head not twice as wide as the thorax 2. 



Head twice as wide as the thorax. 



Scape, pedicel, tegulae and legs rufous 9 . (i) M. laticeps. 

 2. Abdomen black, the extreme apex of the second segment testaceous, 

 ventral segments with a row of sparse, stiff black hairs at apical 

 margins ; all coxse and femora above black, trochanters and 

 rest of legs, and the scape, rufous . . . (2) M. californicus. 

 Abdomen mostly rufous, the two or three terminal segments obfus- 

 cated or blackish ; legs, scape, pedicel, clypeus, mandibles, 

 tegulae, ferruginous; prothorax brownish . . (3) M. texauus 



(1) Miscophinus laticeps n. sp. 9- Length 5 mm. Black, closely finely 

 punctate, opaque; face, sides of collar and the meso- and metapleura sil- 

 very sericeous; clypeus, mandibles, except tips and legs, rufous; tegulae 

 and palpi paler; wings hyaline, the apical third fuscous. The head is 

 unusually wide, twice as wide as the thorax; pronotum fully as long as 

 the mesonotum; posterior face of metathorax transversely striate, with a 

 median sulcus ; tibiae with some sparse black spines, their spurs long, 

 black ; anterior tibiae with a sparse comb; transverse median nervure in 

 front wings joins the median vein a little before the origin of the basal 

 nervure; the marginal cell is only about two-thirds the length of the first 

 submarginal, triangular petiolate, the petiole being as long as either side 

 of the cell. 



Hab. Sacramento Co., Cal. Taken in July by A. Koebele. 

 Type No. 5018, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



(2) Miscophinus californicus n. sp. c?. Length 4 mm. Structurally, 

 resembles the former species, except the head is not nearly so wide; the 

 silvery pubescence is denser on the face, on the lower part of the meso- 

 pleura and on the front coxoe; the first, second and third dorsal abdominal 

 segments laterally at apex also show more or less of the silvery pubes- ' 

 cence; scape, mandibles, except tips, and tegulas ferruginous ; all coxae 

 and femora above black, trochanters and rest of legs rufous or ferruginous; 



