TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. § 195 



Labidus minor, n. sp. 



%. — Rufo-testaceous, covered with a very short appressed yellowish silky 

 pile; head black, face and mandibles ferruginous; eyes large and prominent: 

 ocelli prominent, glassy, each posterior ocellus much nearer to the eye than to 

 each other; mandibles long, slender, curved, acute at tips; two short longi- 

 tudinal obtuse ridges above insertion of antennte; antennse not as long as head 

 and thorax, rufo-testaceous, subeompressed at tips, scape robust; thorax 

 strongly gibbous in front, much less so behind, closely and finely punctured, 

 more or less tinged with brown above; mesothorax with a well-impressed cen- 

 tral longitudinal line on anterior half and a finely impressed line on each side 

 over the tegulse; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma conspicuous, fuscous, ner- 

 vures hyaline, marginal cell elongate triangular, pointed at tip, second sub- 

 marginal cell long and narrow, base and apex rounded, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure a little before the middle; legs slender, shorter than usual; abdomen 

 subeompressed, sericeous, peduncle transversely quadrangular and subconvex, 

 base declivous and slightly concave, sides rounded, apex truncate, the angles 

 subacute, sides scarcely raised; apical ventral segment furnished with two 

 stout acute recurved teeth, between which is a minute acute tooth, sometimes 

 indistinct. Length .35 inch. 



Nine specimens. (Belfrage.) Smaller than Harrisii which it 

 closely resembles, but the pubescence on the former species is much 

 longer and coarser, the antennae longer, the wings darker, etc. 



Labidus Melslisemeri. 



Labius Melshdaemeri, Hald. Stansb. Salt Lake Exped. Append, p. 368, pi. 9, 

 fig. 7. 



Three $ specimens. (Belfrage.) 



mutillim:. 



Mutilla Grotci. 



Mutilla Grotei, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ill. }>. 22S. 



Four S specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Mutilla Proinethea. 



Mutilla Proviethca, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 229. 

 Three % specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Mutilla Sayi. 



Mutilla Sayi, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 229. 

 Three % specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Mutilla ornativentris. 



Mutilla ornativentris, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 43S. 

 Seven $ specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Mutilla scrupea. 



Mutilla scrupea, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 297. 



One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



