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The Ohio Naturalist. 



[Vol. V, No. 8, 



Color: straw yellow; borders of the frontal carinae with short exten- 

 sion upon vertex, a band at base of abdoincn, a lateral basal spot on 

 segments one to three and borders of the ovipositor, tibial spines, teeth of 

 tibial spur, spines and claws of tarsi, black. Abdomen of male tinged with 

 fulvus, bases of tergal segments sometimes infuscated. 



Genitalia. Female plates short, rounded at apex. Male hooks 

 incurved nearly touching; style, long, slender, compressed. 



Described from twenty specimens, fourteen females, six 

 males, collected at Cameron, La., by Prof. J. S. Hine in latter 

 part of August, 1903. 



This species shows some striking resemblance to KeHsia, but 

 aside from the characters which seem to require a separate genus 

 it has well marked characters separating it from any species in 

 that genus. 



Fig. 1. Prokclisia sctigcra. 

 h, front; c, side view of head; d, 

 c, aborted wing; /, posterior leg. 

 J. G. Sanders. 



a, male dorsal view; 



dorsal view of female ; 



From drawings by 



Megamelus angulatus n. sp. 



Straw yellow, marked on apex of vertex, sides of pronotuin, clavus- 

 and costa of elytra, base of abdominal segments with black; elytra very 

 short barely covering base of abdomen. Length female, 3.5 mm.; male, 

 3 mm. 



Vertex triangular, the anterior triangle in front of eyes, apex acute; 

 front widening beyond the middle, broadest near base of clypeus, carinae 

 strong; clypeus elongate, carinae prominent. Pronotum equal to vertex 

 and scutellum in length, lateral carinae strongly divergent, reaching hind 

 border outside of origin of lateral carinae of sctitellum. Scutellum 

 bi^oadly triangular, apex right-angled, elytra short, veins conspicuous, 

 especially claval and subcostal. Abdomen strongly carinate on median 

 line. 



Color, straw yellow above and below with fuscous spots within the 

 fovac of vertex, black patches on apex of vertex on line with black eye 

 and Ijlack lateral area of pronotum. Faint black flecks inside carinae of 

 front. Lateral area of pronotum, basal ]5art of lateral area of scvitcllum. 



