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Genus ANOMALON. Grav. 



1. Anomalon curtum. Norton. 



Anomalon curtus, Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. i. p. 362. 

 Four % specimens. 



2. Anomalon propinquum, n. sp. 



Black; face, orbits, most of legs, tegulse. scutellum and broad stripe on each 

 side of abdomen, yellow; antennae fuscous; wings hyaline. 



Male. — Black, opaque, very closely punctured, thickly clothed with 

 a very short, pale glittering pubescence ; head a little wider than the 

 thorax ; face, the orbits uninterrupted, clypeus, mandibles except tips. 

 and the palpi, yellow; antennae about as long as the head and thorax, 

 dusky-ferruginous, paler beneath, the three basal joints yellow beneath. 

 Thorax : scutellum suborbicular, prominent, convex and entirely yel- 

 low ; metathorax coarsely rugose, its posterior face depressed ; tegulae 

 yellow. Wings hyaline, iridescent; nervures pale fuscous, yellow at 

 base. Legs yellow ; posterior coxae, their femora, and apical third of 

 their tibiae, black ; basal joint of posterior tarsi with the apex dusky; 

 posterior femora short, hardly longer than the basal joint of their 

 tarsi. Abdomen elongate, slender at base, gradually broader and sub- 

 compressed beyond the first segment, black ; second segment with its 

 venter and a longitudinal stripe on each side, yellow; remaining seg- 

 ments black,- with a broad yellow stripe on each side; first and second 

 segments about equal in length, the former cylindrical, slightly swollen 

 at tips, the second segment subcompressed. Length 8 lines ; expanse 

 of wings 91 lines. 



One specimen. Very closely allied to A. cwtum, but is differently 

 colored, the hind legs shorter and more robust, and the two basal seg- 

 ments of the abdomen shorter. 



Genus EXOCHILUM, Wesm. 

 Exochilum mundum, Say. 



Ophion mundus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i, p. 228. 

 Anomalon flavipes, Brulle, Hym. iv, p. 170. 

 Exochilum mundus, Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. i, p. 360. 

 One % specimen. 



Genus PANISCUS, Grav. 

 Paniscus geminatus, Say. 



Ophion geminatus, Say, Contrib. Macl. Lye. i, p. 76. 

 Paniscus geminatus, Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. i, p. 364. 

 Two $ specimens. 



Genus OPHION, Fabr. 

 Ophion bifoveolatus, Brulle. 



Ophion bifoveolatus, Brulle, Hym. iv, p. 139. Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 



i, p. 358. 

 One 9 , three % specimens. 



