AMEBICAN HYMENOPTERA. 2 I ,> 



14. Macrophya fuligineus, n. sji. 



Black; anterior legs pale; wings obscure, their basal third clear. Length 

 0.48. Br. wings 0.94 inch. 



9. Body stout ; abdomen long and cylindrical; head and thorax 

 dull, with dense punctures; scutellum coarsely pitted; antennae thick- 

 ened in middle, compressed ; nasus coarsely pitted ; mouth and palpi 

 black ; a white spot on mandibles; a slender white line across tegulas, 

 remainder of body black ; legs black, the anterior femora and tibia) 

 with a white line before ; tips of hinder trochanters and base of final 

 joint of all the tarsi white; wings blackish subhyaline, with clear spot 

 at the base; the basal half of under wings hyaline, stigma and costa 

 brownish ; lanceolate cell with short, straight cross line. 



Illinois, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) One specimen. 



The coxae are large, but hardly longer than in some species of Ten- 

 tJiredo. 



15. M. dejectus. 



AUantus dejectus, Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 1800, 249, 27, % . 

 Macrophya dejectus, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, lis. 

 Black; a piceous band at base of abdomen. Length 0.13. Br. wings O.SO 

 inch. 



Body moderately stout, abdomen quite long; antennas moderate, 

 compressed in middle; nasus deeply incurved; edge of labrum, the 

 palpi and the three basal segments of abdomen piceous, the latter most 

 distinct at sides; legs black, with the four anterior tibiae beneath and 

 the tarsi dull piceous; wings faintly clouded, nervures black, stigma 

 piceous, second submarginal cell receiving the recurrent nervure nearer 

 the third cell than usual ; lanceolate cell with short, straight cross line. 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., (J. Akhurst.) 



10. M. niger. 



AUantus niger, Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 1800, 239, 0, 9 . 



Macrophya niger, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, 118. 

 Black; antennae semi-annulate with white near the tip; scutel black, coxre 

 white sjiotted. Length 0.37. Br. wings 0.75 inch. 



9 . Body long, shining black ; antennaa rather long, apical half of 

 the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and base of ninth articles white on up- 

 per side ; nasus deeply incurved, labrum truncate; disk of labrum, a 

 spot on mandibles and a large spot on posterior coxae white; a pale yel- 

 low line on anterior legs before; on the apical half of medial femora 

 and (indistinctly) down their tibiae and tarsi and the hinder trochan- 

 ters white; wings hyaline, nervures dark, stigma brown; lanceolate 

 cell closed. 



Farming-ton, Conn. 



About twenty females. No males taken. ' 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC, (35) SEPTEMBER, 1867. 



