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joint the Idiiffi'St, a little loiivcer tliaii the scape. Wiiifis liyaline. puhescent, the 

 veins brownish yellow, the postmarjiinal vein a little longer than the stignial, the 

 niar>rinal not quite twice as long as the stignial ; hind wings with long cilia on 

 hind margin toward base. 



Hah. — Algonquin, 111. 



Described from one specimen received from Dr. Wm. A. Nason. 



itIKTAFOIV Walker. 

 !Vlcta|»oii riifi|>4'M sp. n. 



J. — Length 1.8-3 mm. Dull bronzed green to blue-black and black, closely 

 |)unctate and clothed with a whitish pubescence; the abdomen teneous ; scape, 

 pedicel, ring-joints and more or less of the fii"st joint of funicle. mandibles and 

 legs, except coxse, rufous or brownish yellow, the femora sometimes slightly dusky 

 medially; flagellum strongly incrassated, brown-black. Wings hyaline, or some- 

 times with a slight fuscous tinge, i)ubescent, the tegulje and veins ferruginous or 

 brownish yellow, the marginal vein nearly twice as long as the stigmal : meta- 

 mitum much as in M. deiphon Walk.— a median carina intersected at basal one- 

 third by a transverse carina, which is usually very distinct and prominent, al- 

 though sometimes nearly obsolete; the ridge of metapleura blue-black, not 

 (•ui)reous. Abdomen ovate, compressed, much narrower than the thorax, concave 

 above, carinate beneath, the ventral valve very large, extending beyond the tip 

 of abdomen, yellowish ; petiole very short, rugose, the fourth segment shorter 

 than the third, the following segments subequal. 



% . — Length 1.8-2 mm. Agrees with 9 . except in the structure of the antennte 

 and in the abdomen : The abdomen is oblor.g, with sometimes a yellowish spot at 

 liasc, the second segment occupying about half its surface, the third being only 

 half as long as the first, while the fourth and fiftii segments are scarcely half as 

 long as the third. 



llnl). — Jacksonville, Fla. ; Georgia, District of Cohunhia and 

 South Dakota. 



Described from several specimens. INIr. F. H. Chittenden has 

 bred this species from Ch/antiis j)/!<uif(i Fabr. 



.tlotapoii califoriiiciiin sp. n. 



9 . — Length 4 mm. Uronzed green, closely, rather strongly ]>unctate and 

 clothed with a sparse, whitish i)ubescence ; face black; a bright cui)reous spot 

 l)''neatli insertion of hind wings; upjier margin of metapleura clothed with dense 

 long white hairs; scape, pedicel, ring-joints and fii-st joint of funicle, tegula>, the 

 veins and the legs, except coxiB, light rufous or brownish yellow; flagellum 

 strongly incrassated, black, the funicular joints .'{-ti transverse. Wings hyaline, 

 or faintly tinged ; fourth abdominal segment longer than the third. 



'^ . — Length 2.5-3 mm. Differs from 9 "• the antennae, the flagellum being 

 filiform, about four times the length of the scape, densely pubescent, the funicle 

 (j-jointed, the joints loosely joined, the first the longest, twice as long as the third, 

 or as long as the club, the .second nearly two-thirds the length of the first, 3 (i 

 sul)eiiual, a little longer than thick : the femora are .sometimes dusky or brown : 

 while the abdomen is much smaller, oblong, only half as long as the thorax, the 

 petiole about two and a half times as long as thick, smooth, shining, the second 

 segment occujiying about one-third of the surface, the third two-thirds as long as 

 the second, the fourth about one-fifth the lengtb of the second, the fourth about 

 one-fifth the length of the third. 



Hab. — Los Angeles, Cal., Riley County, Kansas, and (icorgia. 



Described from several specimens. 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. JUNK, 1896. 



