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of club subequal to club 3 Head and thorax scaly punctate, the 

 propodeum subglabrous, also segment 2 of abdomen ; rest of abdo- 

 men delicately scaly. Wings hyaline, the venation pallid yellow. 

 Mandibles bidentate. Antennae with two distinct ring-joints, 

 two funicle-joints and three club-joints, the latter with a long 

 terminal spine and the region tapering. Stigmal vein subsessile, 

 half the length of the postmarginal, the marginal over half longer 

 than the submarginal. Hind tibial spur short and stout. Funicle 

 2 quadrate, 1 somewhat longer than wide, shorter than the long 

 pedicel. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying about a sixth of the 

 abdomen. Propodeum noncarinate. Axillae somewhat advanced. 

 Parapsidal furrows slightly indicated from cephalad, subobsolete, 

 a straight, oblique groove laterad of the spiracle. Abdomen 

 sessile. 



From a single female on a tag in the U. S. National Museum, 

 labeled " Nesomyia albipes Ashmead, 242. Leeward side, St. 

 Vincent, W. I., H. H. Smith." 



r^;/??.— Catalogue No. 203 A9, U. S. Nat. Museum, the speci- 

 men on a tag and a slide. 



This does not appear to be the genotype of Nesomyia Ashmead 

 MS., since I describe elsewhere a sscond species similarly 

 labeled and belonging more properly where Ashmead assigned 

 the genus. None of the West Indian species of Closterocerus belong 

 to that genus. 



ON SOME NEW AND -KNOWN MELANDRYID^ (COL.) 



BY CHARLES SCHAEFFER. BROOKYLN, N. Y. 



Carebara calif ornica, new species. 



Elongate, subdepressed, brown, antennae, palpi, legs and 

 underside paler. Head convex with moderate punctures; antennae 

 about as long as head and prothorax, third joint longer than 

 second or fourth, fifth to tenth about as long as wide and nearly 

 equal in size but shorter than fourth, eleventh elongate oval. 

 Prothorax wider than long, apex a little narrower than bas"; sides 

 rather feebly arcuate; basal and apical angles broadly rounded; 

 basal margin feebly arcuate; surface moderately punctate; basal 

 foveae feeble. Elytra about two and one-half times as long as 



Cctober. 1917 ' 



