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Genus APHILODYCTIUM Ashmead. 



•=Parataxomus Mac (Iii.i.ivkay, Can. Em.. L908, p. 367. 



Strongylogaster rubripes Cresson and '/aroints multicolor Norton 

 are congeneric so Parataxonus Mac Gillivray (1908) is ;i synonym of 



Ajilii/oth/cfiuni Ashmead (1898). 



APHILODYCTIUM MULTICOLOR (Norton). 



Four females, July 1 1, at St. John's Bay, New Brunswick; female, 

 Nerepis, New Brunswick, July '22. 

 The firsl transverse cubitus is wanting in two of the specimens. 



Genus HEMITAXONUS Ashmead. 



HEMITAXONUS RUFOPECTUS, new species. 



Readily distinguished from either of the American species by its 

 entirely different color, and long slender antenna?. 



Female. — Length, T.o nun. Anterior margin of the clypeus 

 gently, semicircularly emarginate, the lateral angles rounded; head 

 below the crest and surface of the clypeus irregularly granular, the 

 rest of the head and thorax shining, polished; ocellar basin nearly 

 heart-shape, the anterior ocellus being in the smaller end; lateral 

 frontal basins better defined than usual; post-oeellar area sharply 

 defined all the way around; middle fovea elongate and nearly break- 

 ing through the crest ; antenna 1 almost as long as the body, third 

 joint slightly shorter than the fourth ; legs and thorax normal: sheath 

 rounded on the lower margin; third cubital cell slightly longer than 

 the second, the transverse radius received near the apex. Black; 

 clypeus, palpi, angles of the pronotum, tegulse, basal fourth of the 

 hind tibia', and a band on the hind basit arsis white; most of meso 

 pleura', pectus, three basal abdominal segments (not basal plates) 

 rufo-f erruginous ; femora, four anterior tibiae and tarsi except the 

 pallor color at the joints ferruginous; wings hyaline, iridescent ; vena- 

 tion black. 



Type-locality. — Nerepis, New Brunswick. One female collected 

 August 22 by Mr. A. (i. Leavitt. 



Type.- Cat. No. 12928, U.S.N. M. 



HEMITAXONUS ALBIDOPICTUS (Norton). 



Male. Nerepis, New Brunswick, .Inly II. 



Genus MONSOMA MaeGillivray. 



MONSOMA MAURA, new species. 



\ civ like infernata (Norton), but the supraclypeal area is not 

 sharply ridged, the female is colored like the male and the sculpture 

 of the head is different. 



Female. Length 6 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus triden- 



tate, the inner tooth smaller; head finely granular, the postocellar 



