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1. TOXONEURON JETHIOPS. N. Sp. 



°_ . — Black, shining, clothed rather thickly with a short whitish pubes- 

 cence ; wings fuliginous, a sub-hyaline spot beneath base of stigma, 

 posterior wings except tips and costa, hyaline ; legs black, anterior knees 

 bright honey-yellow, their tarsi palish. Length .25 inch. 



Cordova, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) 



2. TOXONEURON MINUTUM. N. Sp. 



5. — Very small, black, shining, slightly pubescent ; wings uniformly 

 pale fuliginous, iridescent ; legs black, tibial spurs white, anterior knees, 

 their tibiae, four anterior tarsi except tips, and intermediate knees pale 

 yellowish. Length .to inch. 



Illinois. 



3. TOXONEURON ORIZABiE. JY. Sp. 



g . — Black, shining, slightly pubescent ; mandibles, anterior femora 

 except base, their tibiae and intermediate knees, honey-yellow, tibial spurs 

 black ; wings fuliginous, iridescent, posterior pair sub-hyaline ; abdomen 

 flat, base tinged with piceous. Length ,16 inch. 



Orizaba, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) 



4. TOXONEURON EXPLORATOR. 



Bracon (Toxoneuron) explorator, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., i, p. 259. 



" Indiana " (Say) ; Illinois ; Texas. The femora except base, and the 

 tibiae except apex of posterior pair, are bright honey-yellow j tibial spurs 

 pale ; in one specimen the posterior femora and tibiae are dusky. Length 

 .20 inch. 



5. Toxoneuron mexicanum. N. sp. 



$ 5 . — Black, shining, rather thickly clothed with a short, white, 

 sericeous pubescence; tips of mandibles brown • impressed lines on meso- 

 thorax and excavation at base of scutellum, crenulated ; wings hyaline, 

 apex beyond first cubital cell fuliginous, nervures black ; spurs of anterior 

 tibiae pale. Length .25-30 inch. 



Cordova, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) Sometimes the posterior orbits are 

 tinged with honey-yellow, and the pubescence on anterior tibiae tinged 

 with yellow. 



