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men. The Lead is longer tbau wide, a little narrower behind than 

 before, the frons flattened. Antenna', 12-iointed, with an abrupt 3- 

 jointed, black club ; pedicel much stouter and larger than the first funiclar 

 joint; funiclar joints 2 to 5 a little wider than long, the following trans- 

 verse and shorter. Scutellum with a small rounded fovea at base. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville and Fort George Island, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Loxotropa pezomachoides Asbm. 

 Can. Ent., xx, p. 53. 



9 . Length, 1.2""". A small apterous, highly polished, black species, 

 with dark rufous-colored legs and antenn<e, and covered with long, 

 sparse hairs; the cheeks and collar woolly. The antennas are long, 

 gradually incrassated towards tips, the first flagellar joint a little longer 

 but not quite so thick as the pedicel, the joints 2 to 5 longer than tliick; 

 joints 6 to 9 moniliform, the last conic nearly twice as long as the pre- 

 ceding. Thorax narrowed anteriorly, the scutellum with a very small, 

 slightly impressed fovea at base; the metathoiax rugose. 



The abdomen is ovate, large, fully twice as wide as the thorax, 

 highly polished, with some sparse, long hairs and a very short petiole. 



Habitat. — Ottawa, Canada. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from four specimens. Quite distinct from the other species 

 of this genus, and probably not a genuine Loxotropa, being more closely 

 allied structurally to the new genus Trichopria. 



TROPIDOPRIA Ashmead, geu. nov. 

 (Type Diapria conica Fabr.) 



Head rounded, smooth, the occiput rounded; cheeks woolly; ocelli 3, 

 small, placed on the anterior part of the head; eyes round, usually with 

 3 or 4 bristles. 



Antennoe inserted on a frontal prominence; in 9 12-jointed, clavate, 

 submoniliform; scape cylindric, reaching beyond the ocelli; pedicel 

 oval, thicker than the first funiclar joint; the first funiclar joint cylin- 

 dric, narrowed basally, at least 4 or 5 times as long as thick, the second, 

 third, and fourth shorter, subequal, all narrowed basally; the joints 

 beyond gradually increase in size and are more or less moniliform, 

 the last the largest, fusiform; in the S 14-jointed, filiform, simple, or 

 pedicellate-nodose with whorls of hairs. 



Mandibles short, arcuate, with 2 small teeth at apex. 



Maxillary palpi 5 jointed. 



Thorax ovoid, the sides flat; prothorax visible from above, densely 

 woolly; mesonotum smooth, longer than wide, without furrows; scu- 

 tellum convex, compressed from the sides, with a delicate median carina 



