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palpi and mandibles ferruginous ; antennae long, slender, brown above, 

 the scape and basal half of flagellum beneath, ferruginous. Thorax 

 black, coarsely punctured ; two short lines on mesonotum ; scutellum, 

 posterior face of metathorax, tegulae and sutures at base of wings, 

 ferruginous ; legs, including coxje, entirely pale ferruginous, or rufo- 

 testaceous ; wings large, yellowish; nervures ferruginous, the costa darker. 

 Abdomen as in exesorius, but more coarsely sculptured and of a 

 brownish colour, the first segment and base of second a little paler. 



Described from one of two $ specimens bred by Mr. Fletcher from 

 the pupte of a Vancouver Island papilio, and named after him in recogni- 

 tion of the fact that to his example and incentive I owe my interest in 



entomology. 



Sub-family OPHiONiNyE. 



Angitia Americana, n. sp. 



Female — Length, 6 mm. Black, with partly rufous legs. Head small, 

 polished ; face opaque, but scarcely sericeous ; clypeus slightly swollen, 

 with a small tubercle above ; antennae reaching to middle of abdomen, 

 slender, filiform, ig-jointed, joints 3-5 gradually decreasing in length, 

 remaining joints sub-equal, the apical joint flattened internally. Thorax 

 longer than high; mesonotum and pleura? polished, the former indistinctly 

 punctulate ; scutellum rather prominent ; metathorax declivous, areolated 

 and punctate, the central area fusiform and less coarsely sculi)tured ; 

 legs slender ; base of all the coxse, the trochanters and the tarsi piceous ; 

 femora and four anterior tibipe rufous, the posterior tibiae dusky ; wings 

 hyaline, iridescent ; stigma sub-triangular and with the nervures brownish, 

 areolet sub-pentagonal, the outer transverse nervure less distinct. Abdo- 

 men strongly compressed towards apex, piceous-black and highly polished ; 

 first segment long and slender, not expanded at tip, which is faintly 

 sulcate, spiracles near apex ; second and third segments long, the incisure 

 almost invisible ; remaining segments short and slightly retracted ; 

 ovipositor scarcely exserted. 



Described from one ? specimen from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor.) 



Pyracmon vancouverensis, n. sp. 



Female — Length, 10 mm. Black, legs and abdomen in part rufous. 

 Head sub-quadrate, as wide as thorax, black, distinctly punctate ; entire 

 face below antennae, interior orbits nearly to summit of eyes, cheeks 

 below the eyes, mandibles except tips, palpi and scape of antennae, 

 yellow ; a puncture at each upper angle of clypeus ; antennae long, slightly 



