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Linmeria fnra. n. sp. 



9- — Black, minutely punctured, rather shining, with a very short, fine, 

 whitish pile: face flattened, subgranulate; mandibles large, orange-yellow, 

 black at base and apex: scutellum subconvex, polished; metathorax short, 

 posterior face deeply and longitudinally excavated, a bisinuate carina near 

 base, enclosing on efcch side a smooth semicircular space ; tegulse white ; pleura 

 shining, with a lateral shallow excavation ; wings dusky hyaline, nervures 

 and stigma black, areolet rather large, triangular, not petiolated ; femora 

 bright rufo-ferruginous, posterior pair robust, four anterior tibise more or less, 

 and their tarsi except tips of joints, pale yellowish, extreme base of posterior 

 tibise, their spurs and extreme base of tarsal joints, whitish: abdomen robust, 

 convex, subclavate, smooth and sericeous, with pale pubescence, first segment 

 smooth and polished, apex swollen ; venter pale; ovipositor half the length of 

 abdomen. Length .35 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Linmeria aiimiline*. 



Mesoleptus annulip.es, Cress. Troc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 257. 

 One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Linmeria obseura. 



Mesoleptus obscurus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 261. 

 Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Linmeria rirali*. n. sp. 



% 9- — Black, opaque, clothed with a short pale glittering pubescence; 

 mandibles except tips, palpi and tegulse white; scape beneath honey-yellow; 

 metathorax rounded above, with sharply defined elevated lines, forming a 

 large elongate central area; wings hyaline, areolet small, triangular, petio- 

 lated; legs pale ferruginous, trochanters of 9 an d f° ur anterior eoxse and tro- 

 chanters and anterior tibise and tarsi of % whitish; extreme tips of posterior 

 tibise and of their tarsal joints of 9> and their tarsi entirely of % , fuscous: ab- 

 domen subcompressed at tip, ferruginous, base of first segment of £ , and first 

 segment except apex, and base of second of 9 > black: apex of first segment 

 rather suddenly swollen behind middle; ovipositor of 9 half the length of ab- 

 domen. Length .20 — .25 inch. 



Two specimens. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Charops tibialis, n. sp. 



% . — Black, clothed with short pale pubescence; mandibles, palpi, scape 

 beneath and tegulse white ; scutellum broad, flat, pubescent ; metathorax short, 

 subexcavated behind, coarsely sculptured; wings hyaline, iridescent: legs 

 black, two anterior pairs except coxae ferruginous, their trochanters whitish. 

 posterior tibise with a very broad whitish annulus nearly reaching base; abdo- 

 men very slender at base, broad, compressed and truncate at apex. Length 

 .25 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



