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the anterior and intermediate and most of posterior femora black, tips of 

 tarsi, especially the posterior ones, piceous or blackish. 



Abdomen short and stout, with very fine yellowish pubescence, more 

 abundant on terminal segments ; ovipositor conspicuous, sheathes black, 

 shining. 



Described from five specimens, all $ , collected in this vicinity. In 

 general appearance it much resembles Afonop/iad?ius medius Nort., and 

 might be readily mistaken for that species, except for the antennae. It 

 even more closely resembles a Blenocampa, which I take to be B. paupera 

 Prov. 



4. Macrophya propinqua. — %. Black, length 0.5 inch; expanse of 

 wings i.o inch. 



Head broader than thorax ; clypeus emarginate, labrum truncate, 

 both white, line on mandibles white, palpi whitish ; antennae slightly 

 swollen in middle, joint 3 nearly as long as 4 and 5 ; two indistinct white 

 dots on edge of occiput. 



Thorax with slender white line on edge of collar and of wing-scales ; 

 meso-thorax polished, moderately punctured and slightly pubescent, 

 median lobe sulcate ; scutellum convex, more coarsely punctured and 

 pubescent ; a line on anterior and middle coxae and most of their tro- 

 chanters, a large spot on posterior coxae, with trochanters entirely, white ;. 

 a white line on anterior tibiae before, extending nearly half way on 

 femora ; tarsi with all the joints white, tipped with black, except first joint 

 of posterior, which is black, with a small white dot at extremity without ; 

 edge of basal plates white ; apical half of wings pale fuliginous ; abdomen 

 stout, polished. 



Described from two ^ collected in July. This species is closely 

 allied to M. tibiator Nort., but differs in having the posterior tibiae 

 entirely black. 



Far. a, $. — Two specimens, also collected near Ottawa, differ in 

 having only the sutures of trochanters white, and in having more black on 

 the tarsi and anterior legs, with a dusky spot on clypeus and labrum. 



5. Taxonus rufipes. — ^. Black, legs rufous; length 0.35 inch; 

 expanse of wings 0.65 inch. 



Head finely punctured, with a fine pubescence, more marked upon 

 the face and basal joints of antenna ; ocelli in a triangle, the lower one 

 at the summit of a bell-shaped shallow depression, the channels at sides 



