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before wing-tip, the cubitus more removed from hind margin of 

 wing. 



Panzeriopsis curriei new species. 



Length of body 10.5 to 11.5 mm.; of wing 9 to 9.5 mm. 

 Four males, London Hill Mine, Bear Lake, British Columbia, 

 7,000 feet, July 21 to 29, 1903 (R. P. Currie). 



Black. Clypeus and parafacials silvery pollinose, shading to 

 dark in oblique lights. Parafrontals polished black. Epistoma 

 and cheeks subshining black, former slightly pollinose. Frontalia 

 light brown. Palpi pale rufous to rufous. Beard brassy-gray. 

 Thorax without pollen or vittae, subshining, with slight metailie 

 greenish lustre. Scutellum rufotestaceous on apex or almost 

 wholly so. Abdomen subshining black, without pollen, usually 

 obscure dull rufotestaceous on sides of second and third segments 

 or on sides of second segment alone. There is some suggestion of 

 metallic green on abdomen, especially on anal segment. Legs and 

 antennae black. Wings clear, base pale flavous, veins fulvous. 

 Tegulae watery-whitish, with pale yellowish margins. 



Holotype, No. 19558 U.S.N.M. July 21. 



Named in honour of Mr. R. P. Currie. 



Rhachogaster new genus. 



Genotype — Rhachogaster kermodei Townsend, new species. 



Differs from t//)0(iemocera as follows : Male. — Front narrowed 

 at vertex to little over one-half eye-width. Third antennal joint 

 normal, rounded apically. First aristal joint short. Lobular 

 edges of second genital segment set with short toothlike spines. 

 Second ventral plate with thick bunch of short sharp needle-point 

 spines directed backward. Third ventral plate with some very 

 short inconspicuous spines; fourth with a few short hairs; fifth 

 with some long hairs. Ventral profile deeply cut out when hypo- 

 pygium is exserted. 



Rhachogaster kermodei new species. 



Length of body 13 mm.; of wing 10 mm. Two males, Pentic- 

 ton, British Columbia, July 4 and 8, 1913 (E. M. Anderson, through 

 F. Kermode, Nos. 187, 188). 



