442 IJUr.LETlN 15, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



piceous. Flagellmn scarcely twice the length of the scape; pedicel 

 loug, stouter than fun iele; first fuiiiclar joint twice as long as thick; 

 the following all moniliform, tli(^ two or three Joints ])receding the club 

 a little transverse; the club consists of one enormously enlarged joint, 

 fuscous. Abdomen ovate, polished black, the petiole IJ times as long 

 as thick, yellowish, densely woolly, the wool beneath extending on to 

 the base of the second ventral segment. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Monelata hirticollis Ashm. 

 Can. Ent., xx, ]). ~)i. 



9 . Length, 1.1""". Diflers from the species just described in being 

 slightly larger, with the antennae dark rufous, the club black, the legs 

 yellow or reddish-yellow; while the collar, metapleura, and jietiole are 

 black and densely woolly. 



Habitat. — Ottawa, Canada. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



The species was described from a specimen received from JMr. W. 

 Hague Harrington. 



BASALYS Westwood. 



Phil. Mag., 1833, p. 343. 



(Type r>. fnmipennls Westw.) 



Head subglobose, the occiput margined, the clypeus entirely sepa- 

 rated, the cheeks woolly; ocelli 3, close together in a triangle; eyes 

 rounded. 



Antenn.ie inserted on a frontal prominence, in 9 13-jointed, either 

 moniliform, clavate or graduallj' incrassated toward tips, the scape 

 very long, reaching far beyond the ocelli ; in $ 14-jointed, filiform, 

 the pedicel usually smaller than the first flagellar joint, the first flagel- 

 lar joint not more than half the length of the second, the second the 

 longest joint and always excised outwardly at base and dilated at apex, 

 the following joints, except the last, always shorter than the second. 



Maxillary i^alpi short, 5-jointed, the third and fourth joints small, 

 equal, the last elongate, pilose. 



Mandibles bifid at tips. 



Thorax ovoid, the collar woolly at sides; mesonotum without fur- 

 rows (except somfetimes indications of them posteriorly in the 9 ), but 

 prominently elevated in the middle anteriorly; scutellum with a pro- 

 found fovea at base or with 2 confluent fove.T; luetathorax emarginated, 

 with acute angles and a prominent acute median ridge above. 



Wings in $ large, broad, pubescent; the subnuirginal vein attains the 

 costa at about one-third the length of the wing or a little beyond ; the 

 costal cell closed; marginal vein short, triangular, usually with a 



