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base of tarsi pale, the four anterior tarsi often varied with pale testaceous ; 

 abdomen entirely ferruginous, longitudinally rugose, first segment with two 

 sliarply defined longitudinal carinm, gibbous at base, and continued on to 

 the second, but becoming obsolete before reaching the apex of the segment. 

 Length .23— .26 inch. 



Var. %. — Posterior legs yellow-ferruginous, trochanters, tips of femora and 

 of tibise, and the tarsi except base beneath, black. 



.ffab. — Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. 



StephailUS Ciiictipes.— 9-— Black; labrum, narrow band at base of 

 all the tibise, and apical third, except extreme tip, of the ovipositor sheaths, 

 white; tarsi testaceous, jjaler at base; trochanters, apex of first abdominal 

 segment above and most of the second and third segments, ferruginous; in 

 front of ocelli a sharp semicircular carina, toothed in the middle and on each 

 side; face transversely rugose; cheeks nearly smooth; immediately back of 

 ocelli a series of sharp transverse ridges, sometimes this part is tinged with 

 dull ferruginous; mesothnrax finely, transversely wrinkled, the impressed 

 longitudinal lines composed of deep pits; pleura and metathorax roughly 

 )mnctured, the former less so and shining; middle of scutellum smooth and 

 polished; tegulse dull testaceous; wings pale fuscous toward tips, an angular 

 subhyaline band, commencing at base of stigma, apex of witigs paler than 

 beneath stigma; all the tarsi 5-jointed, the penultimate joint with a long 

 tufted process at lip beneath; anterior tarsi double the length of their tibise 

 and very slender; posterior coxse large and toothed above near apex, their 

 femora with two large teeth beneath, and a number of small unequal teeth 

 between and on either side of them ; their tibise not much thickened toward 

 tip and not dilated; their tarsi about two-thirds the length of the tibise, with 

 the first joint rather longer than the second, which is about equal in length 

 with the third; abdomen smooth and polished, except tlie first segment which 

 is finely roughened, and not longer than the posterior coxse; ovipositor about 

 double the length of the bodJ^ Length .o5 — .75 inch. 

 Hab. — Washington Territory, (Morrison). 



Gorytes Sniithii. — 9- — Black, shining; clothed with a brown sericeous 

 pile; narrow line on anterior orbits, apex of labrum and spot on mandibles, 

 yellow; head sparsely punctured, palpi, scape and base of flagellum beneath 

 yellowish-ferruginous; mesothorax and pleura smooth, impunctured ; line on 

 prothorax, sides of mesothorax obscurely, tubercles and apical margin of 

 scutellum, yellow; metathorax impunctured, clothed with erect pale brownish 

 pubescence, a deep longitudinal medial furrow extending from base to apex, 

 interrupted at tip of the triangular enclosed space by a deep fovea; wings 

 uniformly dark fuliginous, second recurrent nervure confluent, or nearly so, 

 with the second transverse cubital nervure; legs yellowish-ferruginous, coxse, 

 trochanters, posterior femora above, and spot or line on two anterior pairs black 

 or fuscous; abdomen subpetiolated, smooth and shining, the first segment, 

 except extreme base, yellow. Length .55 inch. 



//«6.— Illinois. (Miss E. A. Smith). 



The following additions to the Library of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society were announced : — 



Canadian Eutomolocist, vol. xii, No. 8. From the Editor. 



