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.legs honey-yellow, base of coxfe black; their apex, trochanters and 

 base of femora white; tarsi fuscous above; inner tooth of claw large; 

 winiis faintly smoky; base of stigma and the costa pale. 



S . No white spot on the tergum or basal plates; tarsi blackish. 



Maine, N. H., Mass., Conn.. N. Y., Penna. 



4. Emphytus cinctipes, n. sp. 



IMack : a white ttand on the fifth segment of abdomen and on the base of all 

 the tibice: femora black. % J. Length 0.34. Br. wings 0.58. 



9 . 13ody formed as in U. mellipes ; tegulae, a spot on basal plates 

 and band on fourth segment of abdomen, interrupted in middle be- 

 neath, white; cox;^ and femora black; tips of coxne, trochanters and 

 base of femora white ; a white band at base of all the tibiae ; tibiae fer- 

 ruginous, tarsi blackish; inner claw tooth lary^c ; wings hyaline, base 

 of stigma white. 



% . Resembles female; no white band on abdomen. 



V(ir. Tihiaj all blackish toward apex. 



Maine, New York. Eight 9 , four % . 



This is closely allied to E. mclUpps. Klug mentions the Tenfliredo 

 ( Emplu/fuii) ffrossularise as having been found in Baltimore. (Berl. 

 Mag. 1814, 8, 288.) 



Section 2. — {Harpiphorus), Hartig. 

 Lanceolate cell with oblique cross line; hinder wings with one middle cell. 



a. Abdomen long as in Tenthredo, cy\mdv\c:ek\ in '^, flattened and rather 

 acuto in Q- The first joint of hinder tarsi as long as all the remainder. 



5. E. varianus. 



EmphytiiH varianus, Norton, Bost. Proc. viii, 1861, 156, 4, 'J, 9 • 

 Testaceous; thorax black ; antennae with the three basal joints red, the fourth 

 and fifth black, remainder white. 



Length % 0.38. Br. wings 0.70 inch. Length 9 0.45. Br. wings 0.90 inch. 

 9. Body long and rather stout, color testaceous; antennae longer 

 than base of thorax, stout, serrate beneath, third joint longer than 

 fourth, the three basal joints rufous, the fourth and fifth 'black, and 

 the four apical joints white ; head polished, (juite thick behind the 

 eyes ; deep sutures from nasus to summit on each side of ocelli, form- 

 ing a bilobed enclosed space behind; a deep basin below lower ocellus; 

 nasus deeply notched; a spot about ocelli, and behind to the neck, and 

 one below each of antennae, black ; labrum whitish ; thorax rather 

 sparsely and coarsely punctured, black ; the tegulae, scutel and ridge 

 behind whitish ; sutures of mesothorax, part of metathorax and the ab- 

 domen reddish-testaceous; abdomen flattened, edges of each segment 

 blackish; legs reddish-yellow; cox?e, middle of four anterior femora, 

 and apical half of posterior femora and of tibiae black ; apex of coxae, 



