308 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Einpria casta, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median carina, 

 broadly, shallovvly, roundly emarginate, with a low, broadly rounded tooth 

 at middle, the lateral lobes rounded; the ocellar basin extending to the 

 median ocellus, narrow and linear, ending ventrally in a pit-like median 

 fovea, but little if any wider than the ocellar basin ; the ocellar and inter- 

 ocellar furrows distinct ; the third segment of the antennae longer than the 

 fourth ; the saw-guides gradually converging on upper and lower margins, 

 and broadly, roundly pointed at apex ; the body black, with the margin of 

 the clypeus, labrum, line on the collar, legulcC, front and middle legs 

 below the coxre (except infuscation on the middle of the femora), hind 

 trochanters, tip of hind femora, base of hind tibiae, and base of their tarsi, 

 white. Length, 7.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Salineville, Ohio ; male, Phcenix, N. Y. 



Einpria celebrata, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median carina, 

 broadly, shallowly, roundly emarginate, with a low broad tooth at middle, 

 with broadly rounded lobes ; ocellar basin rather broad, broader near the 

 median fovea, the median fovea a broad crater ; the ocellar farrow 

 indicated, the interocellar furrow broad and distinct ; the third segment of 

 the antennae distinctly longer than the fourth ; the saw-guides convex 

 above, straight and converging to the roundly truncated apex ; the body 

 black, with the clypeus, labrum, collar, tegular, trochanters, the front legs 

 below the middle of the femora, the middle and hind legs beyond the 

 knees, the apex of the hind tibiae and the hind tarsi more or less infuscaled, 

 white. Length, 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. E. P. VanDuzee, collector. 



Empria captiosa, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median carina, 

 with a small, acutely pointed tooth at middle ; the ocellar basin broad, 

 with sloping sides ; the ocellar and interocellar furrows distinct ; the third 

 segment of the antennae longer than the fourth ; the saw guides convex 

 above and below, broadly, convexly rounded at apex, the extreme apex 

 truncate for a short distance ; the body black, with the clypeus, labrum, 

 collar, tegulae, and^legs below the knees, white. Length, 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Ames, Iowa. Professor E. D. Ball, collector. 



Einpria cceca, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median carina, 

 angularly emarginate, with broadly rounded lobes, and with a broadly 

 rounded median tooih ; the supraclypeal area narrow and carinately 

 elevated ; the median fovea an elongate pit, with tiaring sides at the 



