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description of that species : Length, 6 mm.; frontal crest slightly broken ; 

 middle fovea ovate ; third cubital cell not twice as wide at the apex as at the 

 base, and the head is much paler. Marlatt does not say anything about the 

 colour of the antennae in tricolor, but they are probably black, as he would 

 have undoubtedly have mentioned such bright red ones as Cockerelli has. 

 Blennocampa Gil/ettei, Weldon (Can. Ent., Sept., 1907, p. 304). — 

 9 . Length, 6 mm. Clypeus hardly emarginate, rather rounded at apex. 

 Ocellar basin well defined, the upper wall more prominent ; middle fovea 

 large, deep, well defined. First antennal joint longer than second ; third 

 nearly as long as 4 + 5. Hind basitarsus as long as 2 + 3 + 4. Tarsal 

 claws short, with a large tooth and a smaller posterior one ; pulvilli large. 

 Scutellum shining, with a few large punctures posteriorly. Transverse 

 radial in the apical fourth of cell ; at a different angle from the third 

 transverse cubitus ; third cubital cell almost twice as broad on apical 

 margin as at base ; posterior wings with one discal cell. Sheath stout, 

 broad, sharp on upper apical margin, rounded on lower. Colour shining 

 black ; edge of pronotum, tegulae. legs below knees, pallid ; middle tarsi 

 slightly infuscate, the posterior ones more strongly so. Wings dusky- 

 hyaline ; nervures black, lower half of stigma paler. 



Habitat.— Ft. Collins, Colo., May 15, 1S92 (C. P.Gillette). On 

 raspberry. 



Notes from the type. Probably belongs to JVeoc/iaractus, MacG. 



Neocharactus Ca/iforuicus, n. sp. — $ . Length, 7 mm. Clypeus 

 truncate, roughened like the rest of the head. Head with large confluent 

 punctures ; cheeks shining, with small, sparse punctures. Pentagonal 

 area wanting; a slight depression around anterior ocellus. Lateral ocellar 

 furrows rather broad and shallow to level of ocelli ; wanting below ocelli. 

 Middle fovea large, basin-like, U-shaped, open at the bottom. Thorax 

 above rugose ; scutellum with large punctures and small rugae. Pleura 

 shining, almost impunctate. Stigma broad, rounded on the lower margin, 

 slightly broader at the base. Transverse radial curved, joining the radius 

 at about the apical fourth of the third cubital cell. Inner claw-tooth 

 rather large, nearer the base of the claw is another small tooth. Abdomen 

 shining. Sheath parallel sided until near the apex, where both sides taper 

 to an obtuse apex ; black, with a more or less dirk blue-metallic tint. 

 Apical and lower margins of the sheath testaceous. Legs below the knees 

 creamy-white ; apices of tarsi and tibiae somewhat dusky ; claws piceous. 



