00 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cleptes aliena. 



£ . — Length 6 m. m. Blue-green, the blue tinge more pronounced 

 upon the median thoracic piece and the second and third segments of the 

 abdomen ; the head golden in front, the flagellum and the tibia? within 

 blackish, the tarsi fuscous. Thinly clothed with erect black hairs, the 

 disk of the three basal segments of the abdomen glabrous. Wings sub 

 hyaline, the principal nervures black. The pointed tip of the abdomen 

 piceous, with a golden reflection ; the abdomen polished, very delicately 

 punctured. Metathoracic spines moderate, sharp. Discoidal cell com- 

 plete, appendiculated, the tip of the appendiculation connected with the 

 base of the stigma by a bullar streak, cubital vein beyond the bulla dis- 

 tinct ; radial cell closed indistinctly. Head finely punctured ; thorax 

 strongly punctured, disk of mesothorax and scutellum polished and 

 sparsely punctured, metathorax reticulated, the upper surface with seven 

 longitudinal carina;. 



Como, Wyoming ; S. W. Williston. This is "the first species of the 

 genus recorded from North America. 



NOTOZUS MARGINATUM. 



Length 5 m. m. ; expanse 8.5 m. m. Dark green with blue and violet 

 reflections ; face, vertex of head posteriorly and about ocelli and the disk 

 of the mesothorax with a violet reflection ; antennae black, a slight bluish 

 reflection on scape ; mandibles beyond the middle pale testaceous, tri- 

 dehtate at tip, the teeth piceous ; tarsi dull fulvous ; wings pale fuscous, 

 hyaline towards the base, nervures and tegulae piceous ; posterior face of 

 the thorax and the second segment of the abdomen, particularly at the 

 base, strongly tinged with blue ; truncation of the third segment black ; 

 body beneath light green. Head with dense but shallow punctures, face 

 excavated, delicately aciculated, posterior borders of head sharp. Anterior 

 femora angulated beneath ; the punctures of pro- and mesothorax sparse 

 upon the disk ; the punctures on scutellum and metathorax large ; spine 

 on post-scutellum flat, blunt and covered with large discoidal punctures ; 

 lateral angles of metathorax sharp. Abdomen very delicately and densely 

 punctured, the punctures exceedingly fine on the disk of the first and 

 second segments. Apical segment compressed towards the tip, sub- 

 carinate above, truncate at the extremity, the sides bisinuate, margined 

 by a distinct row of large punctures ; the truncation with no punctures 



