42 E. T. CRE8S0N. 



Selandria albicollis Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, 85.—" % .—Length 

 0.30 ; br. wings 0.60 inch. — Color black, shining; a spot in the middle of labrum, 

 tegulse, edge of collar, a round dot in the middle of the anterior angle, white ; 

 the four hinder legs black above and brownish before; anterior legs whitish- 

 brovrn, their coxis and femora above, black; inner claw tooth slender, not 

 prominent; wings hyaline, the costal and basal nervures white; first submar- 

 ginal cell long oval, basal corners rounded; the outer under wing cells all open, 

 their single inner cell subtriangular, their lanceolate cell retracted." 



Hab. — Texas. Belongs to subgenus Phymatocera Dahlb. 



Selandria coccinata Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, 85. — " J . — Length 

 0.25; br. wings 0.60 inch. — Body otout; antennae long, stout, joints diminishing 

 equally in length and size; lower ocellus in an oval well defined basin, channels 

 at sides of ocelli curved, each rising in a pit back of each upper ocellus, and 

 ending in a little deep round pit back of each antenna, but separated from pita 

 of antennse; the bottom of these pits flat, with a central prominence; nasus 

 broadly truncate at margin; surface of head dull, rather coriaceous, of body 

 Bhining, not polished, nor punctured; inner claw tooth stout, nearly as large 

 as outer. Head black ; basal joint of antennae, nasus, labrum and palpi, white ; 

 thorax and abdomen bright coccineous, with a round spot on each side of scutel, 

 sutures of metathorax, a double spot on pectus, and ovipositor sheath, black; 

 under a lens the red color on the thorax is seen to color the prominences and 

 fill the sutures, while the spaces between are waxen; the black spots are well 

 defined; legs white, the intermediate tarsi and hinder tibiae and tarsi blackish; 

 wings slightly clouded, nervures black; all the angles of first submarginal cell 

 rounded; a dark cloud around the lower shoulder of lanceolate cell, which is 

 without cross-nervure; under wings with two inner cells, their lanceolate cell 

 long and receiving the cross-nervure within the i\p && in flavi/pes. Var. 9- — 

 First joint of antennae black; all the femora witji a wide black band." 



Hah. — Near Cordova, Mexico. Belongs to subgenus Selandria 



Hartig. 



JTIacrophya contaminator Provancher, Nat. Can. x, 105. — "J. — 

 Length .40 inch.^Deep black, shining; margins of the epistoma and labrum, 

 spot at the tip of anterior femora, a line on their tibiae before, and an elongate 

 spot at the base of posterior coxae, white; the rest entirely black; antennae 

 moderate, thickened, scarcely contracted or narrowed medially; epistoma 

 scarcely emarginate, labrum truncate anteriorly, black with the sides and 

 anterior margin white; tegulae black; wings hyaline, obscured beyond the 

 middle, the second submarginal cell with an opaque dot towards the middle, 

 lanceolate cell closed before the middle; spurs of anterior tibiae long, the 

 exterior one strongly bifid." 



Hah. — Canada. (Coll. Provancher). 



Strongylogaster iinpressatus Provancher, Nat. Can. x, 170.— "9 •— 



Length .40 inch. — Black ; tegulae, anterior angles, legs, and middle of abdomen, 

 reddish-yellow; head entirely black, finely punctured posteriorly and strongly 

 impressed behind the ocelli ; antennae rather long, subdentate beneath, joints 

 three and four subequal; coxae black; abdomen black, disk of segments 2 — 4, 

 with the summit of one, reddish-yellow, with a corresponding spot of same 



