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and metathorax above except apex, black; metathorax with sharply-defined 

 elevated lines ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma fuscous; legs 

 pale yellow, tinged with honey-yellow, especially posterior coxae and femora, 

 base of posterior trochanters, stripe od sides of their femora, base and apex of 

 their tibiae and their tarsi except base, fuscous ; tibial spurs white; posterior 

 femora with a short acute spine between middle and apex; abdomen slender, 

 first segment except, base and second segment except apex blackish; apical 

 segments dusky above; venter pale yellow; ovipositor as long as abdomen. 

 Length .20 inch. 



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



Porizon? delicatiiK, n. sp. 



^ . — Pale honey-yellow; head much broader than thorax, eyes large and 

 prominent; face, orbits, clypeus, mandibles except tips, and scape pale lemon- 

 yellow, middle of face tinged with honey-yellow; antennae three-fourths as 

 long as body, dusky ; thorax uniformly pale honey-yellow; metathorax with 

 distinct elevated lines; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma pale 

 fuscous; legs slender, pale yellow, white at base, tips of posterior tibiae dusky ; 

 abdomen more or less black at base of all the segments above, especially that 

 of second segment. Length .20 inch. 



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



< remasl us piceus, n. sp. 



J. — Shining piceous-blaek ; mandibles except tips white; orbits and tip 

 of clypeus honey-yellow; metathorax with well-defined elevated lines; tegulae 

 and extreme base of wings yellowish-white; wings hyaline, iridescent, ner- 

 vures and stigma pale; legs dull honey-yellow, tinged with ferruginous, pos- 

 terior coxae black, their tibiae and tarsi more or less obfuscate; abdomen 

 polished, piceous, paler at apex; venter with pale bands; ovipositor porrect, 

 two-thirds the length of abdomen. Length .16 inch. 

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



Eiphosoma texaua, n. sp. 



9- — Black; orbits, face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape beneath, collar, 

 prothorax except lateral triangular black spot and upper central margin, two 

 stripes on metathorax, scutellum, four stripes on metathorax, the lateral one 

 interrupted near base, tegulae, angular line beneath, spot beneath posterior 

 wings, an oblique forked line on each side of pleura and a spot beneath, all 

 very pale yellowish-white; antennae short, black; mesothorax with large dis- 

 tinct punctures; metathorax slightly excavated centrally; wings hyaline, 

 areolet minute, petiolated : four anterior legs white, their femora pale honey- 

 yellow, stripe on trochanters behind and tips of tarsi, black; posterior coxae 

 white, black within and black spot on outside, their trochanters black, white 

 at tips, their femora rufo-ferruginous, white at extreme base and apex and with 

 a black annulus before each, femoral tooth very small, their tibiae and tarsi 

 black, extreme base of tibiae, a broad median annulus and spurs white; abdo- 

 men pale rufo-ferruginous, basal half of first segment white, a spot on middle 

 of first segment, the second and dorsal edge of remaining segments except apex, 

 black; ovipositor two-thirds the length of abdomen. Length .50 inch. 

 One specimen from Comal Co. A very distinct species. 



