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at the apex. Color black; two small, lateral spots on the pronotum, posterior 

 lobes of the pronotum, two spots on the mesoscutellum, metanotum, inner 

 margins of the squamae, two small, lateral spots on the apical portion of the 

 first abdominal tergite, anterior tibiae within, apex of intermediate and pos- 

 terior femora, line on the basal portion of the intermediate and hind tibiae 

 outwardly, and apical joints of anterior and intermediate tarsi, all pale yellow- 

 ish; anterior tibiae within reddish; flagellum bright fulvous except the basal 

 two or three joints; mandibles piceous; eyes (dry) reddish; abdomen entirely 

 ferruginous except the first abdominal tergite; tegulae testaceous; wings hya- 

 line, nervures and stigma testaceous. 

 o^. XTjiknown. 



Type, a female collected at Harrison, Nebraska, August 9, 

 1908, (C. H. Gable). One paratype, a female collected at Glen, 

 Nebraska, August 13, 1906, on Cleome serrulata, (M. H. Swenk). 



Related to glermisis H. S. Smith, but differs by having the 

 abdomen almost entirely ferruginous, two yellow spots on the 

 mesoscutellum and other minor characters. 



Oxybelus umbrosus sp. nov. 



o^. Length 4 to 4.5 mm. Clypeus tridentate; mandibles with a tooth 

 within; head strongly punctured, the punctures finer on the front; distance 

 between the posterior ocelli about three times the distance between one of 

 them and the nearest eye-margin; clypeus, front and cheeks covered with 

 silvery pubescence; pronotum carinate anteriorly; mesoscutum and meso- 

 scutellum strongly punctured; episterna strongly punctured throughout; meso- 

 scutellum and metanotum with a distinct, longitudijial, median carina; squamae 

 with the lateral points strongly curved inwardly; metanotal spine about as 

 long as the mesoscutellum, narrow, channelled, slightly broadened on the 

 apical third, and shallowly, angulately emarginate at the tip; upper surface of 

 propodeum obliquely striate; reticulate immediately beneath the spine; median 

 area of posterior face wedge-shaped, glabrous within; remainder of posterior 

 surface finely striato-punctate; sides of propodeum distinctly, transversely 

 striate; abdomen with moderate, well separated punctures. Color, black; 

 mandibles except the tips, minute lateral spots on the pronotum, posterior 

 lobes of the pronotum, Kne on anterior and intermediate tibiae outwardly, 

 spot at base of hind tibiae, all pale yellowish ; flagellum fulvous, darker above; 

 squamae and metanotal spine except basal fourth, pale, translucent; first 

 abdominal segment, all the remaining abdominal tergites (except the median 

 half which is black), and abdominal sternites, all ferruginous; all the femora 

 and tibiae (except as noted above) dark reddish; tegulae testaceous; wings 

 hyaline, nervures and stigma testaceous. 



9 . Unknown. 



Type, a male collected at Harrison, Nebraska, August 4, 1908, 

 on Helianthus sp., (C. H. Gable). One paratype, a male collected 

 at Harrison, Nebraska, August 9, 1908, (R. W. Dawson). 



