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little nearer to the margin of tbe eye than to tlie front ocellus. Scape 

 and legs reddish yellow, the coxte black, the posterior femora and the 

 tips of the posterior tibiae fuscous. The pedicel is much stouter than 

 the fuuicle; the first two funiclar joints about ecpial, cylindric, the 

 third and fourth small, rounded; club -i-jointed, the first three trans- 

 verse, the last ovate. Mesouotuiu without furrows ; scutellum foveated 

 at base; metathorax short, pubescent. Teguhie black. Wings hyaline. 

 Abdomen sessile, short-oval, a little shorter than the thorax, the base 

 densely pubescent. 



In the S the legs, except the coxa?, are wholly reddish-yellow; the 

 anteuuffi long, the scape, pedicel, and first funiclar joint yellow, the fol- 

 lowing joints brown-black; the second funiclar joint is as long as the 

 jjcdicel and first funiclar joint united, stout, the following joints more 

 slender, cylindric, and about 2J times as long as thick, the apical joint 

 a little thicker than the basal; scutellum with a minute tubercle at 

 tip; metathorax and base of abdomen covered with a dense whitish 

 pubescence; while the abdomen is oval, much shorter than the thorax. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Synopeas melanocerus Asbm. 

 Can. Eut., xix, p. 130, $ £ ; Cress. Syn. Hyiu., p. 249. 



S . Length, 2.1""". Black, polished; face faintly alutaceous, with a 

 central furrow. Lateral ocelli as near to the front ocellus as to the 

 margin of the eye. Antenme 10-jointed, long, filiform, black, the joints 

 after the fourth long, cylindrical, about 4 times as long as thick; pedi- 

 cel as long as the first and second funiclar joints united; the first funi- 

 clar joint small, the second thickened and curved. Mesonotum with 

 2 distinct furrows. Metathorax very sparsely inibescent. TeguhiB 

 piceous. Wings hyaline. Legs piceous, the coxaj black, the anterior 

 legs reddish-yellow. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax united, 

 oblong-oval, the petiole and the foveolie at base of the second segment 

 striated. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



CCELOPELTA Asbm. j-eii. uov. 

 (Type ('. mirahilis kahui.) 



Head transverse, the occiput scarcely margined, the lateral ocelli as 

 near to the front ocellus as to the margin of the eye. 



Antennae in 5 9-jointed, ending in a 4-jointed club; the scape very 

 slender, notextending beyond the ocelli; pedicel very small; first funiclar 

 joint a little shorter than the second, the second fully twice as long as 

 tliick; the third subtriangular; club joints elliptic-oval, loosely joined. 



Thorax ovoid, convex, the mesonotum very little longer than wide, 

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