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elongate, narrower than usual, minutely and longitudinally sculptured, serice- 

 ous, a broad honey-yellow band occupying the basal third, apex rounded. 

 Length .19 inch. 



Two specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Chelonus minimus, n. sp. 



9. — Black, opaque, finely sculptured, subsericeous ; tips of mandibles and 

 palpi reddish ; elypeus shining; metathorax with two central carina? enclosing 

 a shining space, apex truncate, lateral angles not prominent; tegulee piceous ; 

 wings hyaline, dusky at tips; legs black, tibiae and tarsi pale testaceous; ab- 

 domen entirely black, densely and minutely sculptured, longitudinally so at 

 base, apex rounded. Length .10 inch. 

 Two specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Phanerotoma tibialis. 



Sigalphus (Triaspis) tibialis, ~H.aU. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, iv., p. 203. 

 One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



9Iicro<lus thoracicus, n. sp. 



% 9. — Large, robust; head broad, black, clothed with a short yellowish 

 sericeous pubescence, cheeks prominent, shining; face broad, roughened, de- 

 pressed on each side of middle ; elypeus broad, sparsely punctured, anterior 

 margin and small space on disk polished; labrurn yellow; middle of mandi- 

 bles reddish ; paljM pale yellow; antennae not quite as long as head and thorax, 

 honey-yellow, tips black; prothorax except lateral black margin, mesothorax 

 entirely, scutellum except large black spot on summit, scutellar region, and 

 tegulae, dull honey-yellow or ferruginous; mesothoracic lines deeply im- 

 pressed; pleura black, polished; metathorax rough, opaque black, clothed 

 with a rather dense yellowish pubescence ; wings yellow, the apex beyond 

 radial and cubital cells fuscous, nervures and stigma yellow, areolet minute, 

 triangular; legs robust, yellow, more or less tinged with honey-yellow, coxae, 

 base of trochanters, anterior femora behind, intermediate pair except tips, and 

 posterior pair except extreme tips, black ; posterior tibiae honey-yellow at tips ; 

 abdomen short, shining, pale yellow; apical half of first segment and apical 

 margin of second and third segments, sometimes interrupted centrally, black; 

 apical segments more or less ferruginous; second segment with a deep trans- 

 versely impressed line before apex and another, less deep, near base; oviposi- 

 tor of 9 nearly as long as abdomen. Length .35 — .40 inch. 

 Seven specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Microtias texanus, n. sp. 



%. — Slender, black, shining, with a short pale sericeous pile; head small, 

 subtriangular; mesothorax strongly trilobed; metathorax coarsely reticulated, 

 flanks rugose; wings blackish, with an irregular hyaline streak through first 

 cubital cell and beneath areolet, which is triangular — as usual; legs black, 

 four anterior tarsi except terminal joint white; posterior coxae and femora 

 sanguineous, tibire and tarsi fuscous, varied with yellowish; abdomen short, 

 narrow, entirely sanguineous, polished; first segment with lateral margin and 

 disk carinate on basal half; second segment with a broad deep fovea on each 

 side at base. Length .30 inch. 

 Two specimens. (Boll.) 



