248 On the Hijmenoptera of the Gcnvs 



Sp. 24. A. mellimis. Harris. MSS. Undescribed. 

 Color entirely pale honey yellow; long and slender. (9 

 Long. 0.47 in. Ex. alar. 0.90 in. $ Long. 0.44 in. Ex. 

 alar. 0.87 in.) 



9 Color pale honey yellow ; antenna? long and slender, 

 third joint long; lower half of face and of orbits yellow; 

 mandibles at tip and ocelli black; clypeus produced, mod- 

 erately emarginate ; labrum and mandibles fringed with 

 white hair ; body long and slender ; anterior coxae and fe- 

 mora, and a spot at base of posterior coxae, yellow ; wings 

 hyaline ; nervures black ; stigma and costa pale. 



^ The male has a black spot on vertex about the ocelli; 

 wing-scale, collar, a distinct V on the prothorax, scutellum, 

 pleura, pectus, and coxae, pale yellow ; a black line on pos- 

 terior coxffi and half of femora above. 



Hab. Maine (H. Coll.). 



Two specimens examined. 



XX. Abdomen with yellow or rufous bands. 



Sp. 25, A. riifocinctus. Nov. spec. Black ; first five 

 segments of abdomen rufous. (Long. 0.30 in. to 0.35 in. 

 Ex. alar. 0.62 in. to 0.70 in.) 



9 c? Black ; antennae short, the third joint but little 

 longer than the fourth ; clypeus almost inclosing the la- 

 brum, which is obtusely rounded, and fringed with pale 

 hair ; face immaculate ; labrum in some cases dark pi- 

 ceous ; mandibles and pal[)i piceous ; wing-scale piceous ; 

 two dots behind scutellum white ; first five segments of 

 abdomen rufous, the first concealed by the black basal 

 membrane ; body smooth, shining, and in many parts 

 covered with a close, shining pile of hair; legs rufous ; 

 coxae, tips of posterior tibiie, and the tarsi, black; the four 

 posterior coxae tipped with white beneath in females ; 

 wings smoky yellow, transparent; nervures black; basal 

 half of stigma pale. 



Hab. Farmington, Conn., and New Hampshire (H. Coll.). 



