116 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Limneria co^npacta, nov. sp. 



% — Length .23 inch. Black, with the legs and abdomen rufous. 

 Mandibles, palpi, and alar scales, white. Antennje filiform. Thorax short 

 and thick, the mesothorax gibbous, the metathorax declivous. Wings 

 sUghdy infuscated, with a triangular sessile areolet. Legs rufous, the pos- 

 terior coxte black at the base inside. Abdomen forming a small elongate 

 club with a slender and elongate peduncle, black at the base and ex- 

 tremity. Terebra about one fourth the length of the abdomen, re- 

 curved upwards. Vancouver. 



Closely alHed to Z. rtificoxa Prov., but differing by the sessile areolet, 

 the legs entirely rufous, etc. 



Mesoleptus fasclatiis, nov. sp. 



^ - Length .20 inch. Black, the face under the antennse, an orbital 

 patch above their insertion, the palpi, the alar scales, the lateral inferior 

 edges of the prothdrax, with tlie four anterior coxse and their trochanters, 

 white. Antennae shorter than the body, setaceous, black, the scape 

 obscurely whitish underneath. Metathorax large, with distinct elevated 

 lines. Wings hyaline, without areolet, the stigma pale. Legs pale rufous, 

 the posterior with the cox^e, and the extremity of their tibise and tarsi, 

 brown, more or less obscure. Abdomen rather stout, linear, black, 

 obscurely white on the sides, the segments with a polished fascia at their 

 posterior edge. Vancouver. 



Differs from M. dccens Cress, by its white markings and the sculpture 

 of its metathorax. 



EchtJirus Provancheri, Brodie. 



(Mr. Brodie having kindly dedicated to me this beautiful new species, 

 and not having seen its description published, I submit it here below.) 



^ — Length .48 inch. Black, abdomen partly rufous ; head and thorax 

 entirely black, very finely punctured ; the face with a small tubercle in the 

 middle under the antennae ; mandibles, palpi and antenncC, all black. 

 The mesothorax trilobed, the metathorax rugulose on the sides and pos- 

 teriorly. Wings slightly infuscated, the nervures and stigma black, the 

 areolet large, subquadrate. Legs rufous, the anterior cox£e, the crura and 

 tibiae of the posterior pair at their extremity, black, the posterior tarsi with 

 the first and last article black, the median ones white. Abdomen pedun- 

 culate, its peduncle polished and shining, the other segments punctulate ; 



