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1 2. Cryptus persimilis, n. sp. 



Black ; legs and abdomen rufous : wings fuseo-hyaline ; ovipositor nearly as 

 long as the body. 



Female. — ^Black, shining ; frontal orbits pale; face minutely punc- 

 tured, much depressed just behind the insertion of the antenna) ; be- 

 tween the clypeus and base of antenna) a rounded obtuse tubercle ; 

 clypeus rather prominent, convex, rounded and somewhat depressed in 

 front ; palpi piceous ; antennae more than half the length of the body, 

 very slender, slightly curved at tip, black, the 3rd to (3th joints as in 

 ameficaiius. Thorax polished, feebly punctured ; the mesothorax with 

 two deeply impressed longitudinal lines approximating posteriorly ; 

 tegulcie rufo-piceous ; scutellum polished ; metathorax densely punc- 

 tured, truncate behind, the elevated lines indistinct. Wings fusco- 

 hyaline, with a brassy gloss; nervures fuscous, stigma ferruginous: 

 areolet 5-angular. Legs rufous, the coxae and trochanters black ; tips 

 of posterior tibia3 and their tarsi somewhat obfuscated. Abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, shining, basal segment much arcuated, polished, sides 

 slightly grooved, broad at tip, most of the petiole blackish ; ovipositor 

 nearly as long as the abdomen, rufous, valves black. Length 4 lines; 

 expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Rab.—BelAWiive. Dr. Thos. B. Wilson. 



Closely allied to C. americanus, but is at once distinguished by its 

 red legs and darker wings. 



1". Cryptus limatus, n. sp. 



Black ; antenn.ie with a more or less distinct whitish anniilus : abdomen ru- 

 fous, polished : ovipositor very short. 



Female. — Black, shining ; face densely and minutely punctured, 

 coarser on the clypeus, the anterior margin of which is rounded and 

 somewhat reflexed ; mandibles tinged with rufous, pubescent; cheeks 

 and occiput polished ; antenuce as long as the body, rather slender, 

 black, brownish beneath especially towards the apex, the 10th to 12th 

 joints above, white, the 3rd, 1th, 5th and 6th joints subequal, the 6th 

 rather the shortest. Thorax very densely and finely punctured, shin- 

 ing, the mesothorax with a shallow depressed line on each side ; scu- 

 tellum convex, finely punctured ; metathorax short, truncate behind, 

 somewhat longitudinally rugose, near the base a transverse acute carina 

 extending all the way across, behind this another acute carina slightly 

 oblique and interrupted in the middle and terminating on each side in 



