440 BULLETIN J 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Described from 8 specimens received from Mr. W. Hague Harrington. 

 The species bears no resemblance to any other species placed in this 

 genus, but closely lesembles Loxotropa pezomachoideH Ashm., with 

 which it was confused in my collection. It is, however, readily sepa- 

 rated from that species by the entire absence of a fovea at base of scu- 

 tellum and the slight difference in the shape of the auteunie. 



Phaenopria affinis, sp. nov. 



9. Length, 1.2""". Apterous; polished black, impunctured; an- 

 tennae, except the 4-jointed club, and the legs reddish-yellow. 



Antenu;e 12-jointed, ending in a 4:-joiuted club, the joints of the club 

 very graduallj' increasing in size; funicle subcylindrical, the first joint 

 about as long as the pedicel, the following joints very gradually shorten- 

 ing, the last two a little thickened, and none less than twice as long as 

 thick. Cheeks behindpubescent ; collar, metathorax, and petiole woolly. 

 Abdomen oblong-oval, wider than the thorax, the second segment over- 

 lapping the apex of the petiole, the latter scarcely longer than thick. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



A single specimen received from Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



Smaller and quite distinct from P. aptera in the color of the antennae 

 and legs and in having different shaped antennae. 



Phaenopria parva, sp. nov. 



$. Length, O.S'""". Apterous; polished black, impunctured; anten- 

 nae, coxae, trochanters, base of tibiie, and tarsi honey-yellow; rest of 

 the legs rufous. The antennie are long, 14:-jointed, sparsely pubescent, 

 the first and second flagellar joints long, subequal, the second slightly 

 the shorter, a little curved and dilated toward apex; the following 

 joints, except the last, oval-moniliform, nearly equal, 1^ times as long 

 as thick, the last conical, longer than the preceding. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



A single specimen from Mr. E. A. Schwarz, and possibly the oppo- 

 site sex of P. affinis. 



Phaenopria montana, sp.nov. 



$ . Length, 1""'. Differs from P. parva as follows: The antennae 

 are piceous or black, the first and second funiclar joints long, subequal, 

 the second, angulately produced toward apex, the following joints 

 elliptic-oval, fully twice as long as thick; metapleura and petiole yel- 

 lowish, but still woolly, while the coxse are rufous, not honey-yellow. 



Habitat. — Santa Cruz Mountains, California. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



A single specimen obtained by purchase. The difference in the 

 length of tlic liagcllar joints and the color of the metapleura and 

 petiole will readily distinguish the species. 



