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tarsi tinged with the same color. Wings subhyaline, with the stigma and veins 

 black, or blackisli fuscous, while the second abdominal segment has a transverse 

 furrow a little beyond its middle, but is without the two oblique furrows. 



Hdh. — Cvprus Mills, Texa.s. 



Described from a single specimen. 



lIoffTONpiliiM ? HMti^ina sp. n. 



%. — Length 1.1 luiu. .Vgrees very closely with //. texanxs, but the head is 

 shagreeiied. not transversely aciculated ; the nietathorax exareolated ; the hind 

 wings without the thickened stigma; the second abdominal segment has two 

 obliiiue furrows connected at about the middle with a curved transverse line, 

 while all the segments, except the last two, which are smooth and highly jxdished, 

 are opacjue, loiigitu<linally striated, with only their extreme ajjices smooth and 

 shining. 



Hab. — Morgantown, W. Va. 



De.-iorihed from one S labeled No. 6089, received from Prof. A. 

 I). Hopkin.s. 



Subfamily Hecabolin.e, 

 E€PHYL.US Forster. 



KcpliyliiM pallidiis sp. n. 



9 . — Length 2-3 mm. ; ovipositor fully one and a half times as long as the body. 

 Pale honey-yellow, or brownish yellow ; antennie towards tips and the sheaths 

 of ovi])ositor dusky. Legs pale yellowish or whitish; middle lobe of mesonotuni 

 posteriorly and metanotum wholly rugulose. Wings hyaline, the stigma, except a 

 white sj)ot at extreme base, and veins light brown. The first abdominal segment 

 is long, longitudinally aciculated, the rest of the abdomen smooth and ])olished, 

 the segments scarcely discernible on account of the fineness of the sutures and 

 the highly polished surface. 



%. — ^Length L7o-2.5 mm. Ditters in no wise from the female, except in the 

 usual sexual differences, and in having, sometimes, the apex of the abdomen and 

 the hind tibise dusky. 



Hab. — ^lorirantown, W. Va., and District of Columbia. 



Described from one 9 '^ud one S bred from red-bud by |^rof. A. 

 I). Hopkins, and one 9 'U'd three Z bred from the same shrub l)y 

 Mr. P^'ank H. Chittenden. 



Fc|>hylii!<» hypotlioiioini sp. n. 



9. — Length 1..") mm.; ovipositor not quite as long as the abdomen. Hlack ; 

 palpi, jiedicel and an annulus at base of fii"st flagellar joint, the sutures of tro- 

 chanters, and all tarsi, except the last joint, honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma and veins light brown. Head quadrate, polished; mesonotuni feebly 

 shagreened, the lobes posteriorly smooth and shining, the middle lobe with a lon- 

 gitudinal grooved line posteriorly; metanotum finely rugulose, with a middle 

 carina. Abdomen, except the fii"st segment, which is longitudinally striated, 

 smooth and iiighly polished. 



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