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iridescent; venation pale brown. Black; palpi, mandibles, apices 

 of femora and legs below femora pale piceous. 



Plummers Island, Maryland. Described from 1 female collected 

 March 4, 1910, by H. S. Barber. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15379, U.S.N.M. 



XYELA MINOR Norton. 

 Xyela minor 'Norton, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 1868, p. 349. 



Type. — Collection American Entomogical Society. 



XYELA LUTEOPICTA Cockerell. 

 Xyela liiteopicta Cockerell, Can. Ent., vol. 34, 1902, p. 194. 



Type. — In the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Originally described from Las Vegas, New Mexico, but is repre- 

 sented in the United States National Museum collection by many 

 specimens from Colorado (without definite locality). 



XYELA ERRANS, new species. 



Female. — Length to apex of the abdomen 3 mm.; length 'of the 

 ovipositor 2.25 mm. Clypeus with a faint carina, the anterior margin 

 slightly produced, in the middle a low rounded tooth; supraclypeal 

 area flat; middle fovea obsolete; antennal furrows complete to beyond 

 the anterior ocellus; postocellar area defined laterally by faint fur- 

 rows; postocellar furrow obsolete; postocellar line subequal with the 

 ocelloccipital line; fourth and fifth antennal joints subequal; head and 

 thorax subopaque, finely granular; stigma gently tapering from the 

 first transverse radius, about two and one-half times as long as the 

 greatest width; sheath concave below, convex above, gradually taper- 

 ing above and below. Ruf o-f erruginous ; mandibles, clypeus, faint 

 lines on the vertex and a spot at the top of the eye, palpi, legs below 

 the apices of the coxae and tegula yellow ; wings hyaline, iridescent ; 

 venation pallid brown. 



North Carolina, Described from 1 female from the collection of 

 C. V. Riley. 



Type.— Ca,i. No. 15380, U.S.N.M. 



XYELA BRUNNEICEPS, new species. 



Female. — Length to the apex of the abdomen 3.5 mm.; length of 

 the ovipositor 2.75 mm. Clypeus with a faint median carina, the 

 anterior margin slightly produced from the middle into a broad low 

 tooth; supraclypeal area convex; middle fovea obsolete; antennal 

 furrows complete behind the anterior ocellus; postocellar furrow 

 obsolete; postocellar line slightly shorter than the ocelloccipital line; 

 fourth and fifth antennal joints subequal; head and thorax subopaque, 

 finely granular; scutellum with a longitudinal impressed line; stigma 



