THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 89 



2. Postocellar line strongly present ; anterior lobe mesonoiiim punctured 

 as side lobes ; length, 4.5 mm.; not marked with black, .lutea Roh. 

 Postocellar lifie absent; anterior lobe of mesonotum more closely 

 sculptured tlian side lobes; length, 6 ram.; thorax above and abdo- 

 men above marked with black Koebelei Roll. 



Phroiteura fiilvicornis, n. sp. — ^. Length, 5 nim. Anterior margin 

 of clypeus with a broad obtuse triangular tooth ; malar space very narrow ; 

 narrow, deep farrows from the antenna? to above anterior ocellus, where 

 they meet ; middle fovea elliptic, with a shallow depression to anterior 

 ocellus ; a fovea at the side of each lateral ocellus ; apical antennal joint 

 shorter than preceding ; head and thorax opaque, with close, fine punc- 

 tures ; maxilhry palpi very large, yjointed, the second joint about the 

 same length as the anterior femora, the first joint about one-third as long 

 as the second, the last five joints smaller and not so rigid ; labial pal])! 

 4-jointed ; tarsal claws as in Xyeia, with a small tooth at base ; hypopy- 

 gidium rectangular, the apex almost truncate ; intercostal nervure about 

 the length of the same nervure in Neurotoma fasciata, but the free pait of 

 sCo is i^esent ; first recurrent n. in second cubital quite free from first tr. 

 cu.; hind wings as in Netirotoma fasciata. Colour black ; antennae, 

 clypeus, labrum, tegulte, legs, venter and palpi rufo-fulvous ; wings 

 yellowish hyaline, iridescent ; venation pale brown. 



Type locality: Placer Co. , Calif. One c^, June. Type, Cat. No. 

 12749, U. S. N. M. 



Pleroiieura brwieicornis, n. sp. — %. Total length, 5.75 mm.; length 

 of ovipositor, 1.5 mm. Anterior margin of cl3'peus truncate, with a small 

 triangular tooth in the middle ; antennal furrows meeting above the 

 anterior ocellus, as '\n fulvicornis, but above the middle of the head they 

 are indistinct ; no fovea at side of lateral ocelli; palpi as \x\ fulvicornis ; 

 head opaque, closely granular or finely punctured ; thorax above sub- 

 shining, with distinctly separate, small punctures ; sheath about as long as 

 the abdomen, gradually tapering to apex, but more strongly so below ; legs 

 as in fulvicornis ; wings as in fulvicornis, excejjt the first recurrent is 

 interstitial with first tr. cu. Black ; mandibles, line on pronotum and 

 tegulae pallid; clypeus, labrum, palpi, legs, venter and three apical 

 segments rufo-fulvous ; hind tibiie infuscated ; wings hyaline iridescent ; 

 venation pale brown. 



Type locality : Gloversville, N. Y. One $ , April 30, 1907. C. P. 

 Alexander. 



