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closed. These insects, except for the antennae, look very much like small 

 specimens of Ifarpiphorus varianus. 



Pamphilius ruficeps, n. sp. Female — Length, 15 mm. Black, with 

 rufo-testaceous head and legs. Head very large ; coarsely punctured, 

 rufous, with a small black spot enclosing the ocelli ; mandibles very 

 large ; antennae slender, about 35-jointed, black, with three basal joints 

 rufous, third joint more than twice as long as the fourth. Thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the pleura quite rugosely ; tegulae, anterior angles, lateral lobes 

 and apex of median lobe of mesothorax and scutellum, rufous ; beneath 

 black, with dull rufous spots on pleura ; legs rufous, coxae paler, tarsi 

 dusky, the posterior almost black, anterior tibiae with side spur. Abdo- 

 men broad, with narrow lateral margin of bright lemon-yellow. 



One female, found walking on a doorstep in the city, May 31st, 1891. 

 This species is near P ( Lydi) brunniceps, Cress. 



Pamphilius cinctus, n. sp. Female — Length, 1 1 mm. Black, with 

 red band on abdomen. Head polished behind the ocelli, rugulose an- 

 teriorly ; face flat with a ridge between antennae, not reaching anterior 

 margin of clypeus ; clypeus broad, squarely truncate, not margined, and 

 coarsely punctured ; cheeks below the eyes, mandibles, clypeus, triangular 

 spot at inner summit of each eye. similar spots behind on margin of 

 occiput, and two minute dots below ocelli, white ; antennae black, long, 

 slender, 25-jointed, third joint hardly longer than fourth, Thorax 

 polished ; tegulae, short lines in front and beneath, a double triangular 

 spot on middle lobe of mesothorax, scutellum and postscutellum, white; 

 legs pale yellow, including tips of coxae, anterior tibiae without side spur ; 

 wings hyaline with brown nervures, third submarginal cell large. Abdo- 

 men with first segment, except a black spot on each side, and three follow- 

 ing, rufous ; apical segments black. 



One female, taken near the city on June 28th. It resembles in 

 appearance P. mfofasciata, Nort., but differs in shape of antennae and 

 clypeus and in markings. 



Pamphilius fascipennis, Cress. This fine species, originally described 

 from the White Mts., N.H., has been taken by Mr. Evans at Sudbury. 



Xyela tumor, Nort. In June, 1886, I captured by sweeping on the 

 margins of a wood composed of pines, spruces, etc., a male and a female 

 of this very interesting species, which Mr. Kirby thinks should constitute 

 a distinct genus from the European species of Xyela. I failed to obtain 

 the insect again until May nth, 1891, when, in beating spruce trees, I 



