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their inner margin to tbe altitude of the antennae ; face and clypeus soinevvliat 

 swollen into a tubercle in the middle; face, forehead, vertex, temples and cheeks 

 closely, coarsely and umbilicately punctured, tbe punctures more even and 

 smooth on the forehead, vertex and temples, arranged in rows on the latter; no 

 carinse between the antennje; these inserted below the middle of the compound 

 eyes; filiform ; scape a little under one-fifth as long as the fiagelluni; a little 

 under one-sixth longer than joints 3 -f- 4 ; pedicel three-fifths as long as thethird 

 joint. Alitrunk short and stout, tapering posteriorly ; pronotum not forming a 

 distinct collar ; humeral angles rather sharp; mesonotum and scutellum some- 

 what convex; with indistinct parapsidal and no anterior or lateral grooves; 

 vertical part of the pronotum smooth, polished, impunctate; the polished area on 

 the raesopleurse large, shading below into a punctured area; the groove for the 

 reception of the legs rather deep and prolonged ; the anterior swelling and tbe 

 entire venter and the coxfe are thickly covered with large, sometimes confluent 

 punctures, among which are numerous minute shallow punctulations; the sculp- 

 ture of the mesopleurse and forward part of the propodeum is as shown in Fig. 2; 

 entire dorsum to the petiole coarsely evenly punctured, propodeum below the 

 petiole shallowly reticulate; middle coxse moderately far apart; furcula con- 

 sisting of two short tubercles. 



The tibiae are minutely spinulose. The wings are hyaline. 



Petiole smooth and polished on the very top, obliquely wrinkled and striate 

 on the sides. Abdomen orbicular, smooth, polished. Length 6.5 mm. 



Hub. — Georgia (Tifton). 



Ti/pe. — In the United States National Museum. 



Hyptia texaii» n. sp. 



(Fig. 5.) 

 9- — Black; the four anterior legs beyond the coxse testaceous. Head and 

 entire dorsum closely, coarsely, umbilicately punctured, the face less coarsely 

 and more shallowly. Antennae filiform, the scape a little over one-fifth longer 

 than joints 3 + 4; pedicel four-fifteenths the length of the scape, over one-half 

 the length of joint 3; joints 3 and 4 equal. Humeral angles rather sharp; meso- 

 pleurffi smooth and polished, the anterior swelling punctured; lateral area of the 

 propodeum consisting of three rows of oblong interstices (Fig. 28). Posterior 

 tibial spur one-third the length of the metatarsus; the latter longer than the 

 remaining joints together; claw with a small tooth within. Petiole obliquely 

 coarsely wrinkled, above less distinctly wrinkly-punctate. 



Hab. — Texas (Galveston, May, F. H. Snow, 1 specimen). 

 Type. — In the collection of the University of Kansas. 



Hyptia brevioalcar Kieifer. 

 1904. Hyptia brevicalcar Kieifer, Ark. f. Zool., i. p. 541. 



•"J,. L. 6 mm. Schwarz. Mandibein braun. Gesicht schwach bfehaart, und 

 sowie die Stirne und der Scheitel netzartig punktiert; letztere unbehaart: 

 Scblafen nach unten ervveitert, mit einigen sehr groben Liingsrunzeln, dazswis- 

 chen grob punktiert; Wangen halb so lang wie der schaft, grob punktiert, vom 

 Gesicht durch eine tiefe und breite sich am inneren Augenrande noch fortset- 

 zende Furche getrennt; zwei sehr feine nach aussen bogig gekriimmte Furchen 

 reichen von den Antennen bis zum Munde und begrenzen einen elliptischen 



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