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Type locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 

 TVpg.— Cat. No. 25450, U.S.N.M. 

 Redesoribed from the type specimen. 



2. LEPTACIS MACULIPES (Ashmead). 



Plate 1, fig. 2. 



Catillus maculipes Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 19, 1887, p. 128. — Ceesson, Syn. 



of N. Amer. Hym., 1887, p. 249. 

 Piestopleura maculipes Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 265. 



Female. — Length 0.70 mm. Rather slender; head wider than the 

 thorax; thorax compressed, strongly convex above; frons shagreened, 

 convex, shining and with transverse striae below; vertex bordered 

 posteriorly by a high, sharp carina; occiput smooth, finely shagreened ; 

 mesonotum convex, truncated posteriorly; notauli absent; scutellar 

 fovea hard to find; median lobe of mesonotum touching the upper 

 surface of the scut ellum; scutellum triangular, flat and sparsely pu- 

 bescent above, with its upper surface prolonged into a short spine-like 

 projection ; scutellum with a few silvery hairs laterally ; abdomen as 

 long as the head and thorax united, elliptical, a little over twice as 

 long as wide, convex above and below; second tergite as wide as long, 

 not sculptured apically; last four tergites unsculptured, united nearly 

 as long as the second; tergites three to five subequal in length, united 

 as long as six; sixth tergite as long as wide, subacute apically; wings 

 narrowly fringed, subhyaline. Mahogany color, the antennae and 

 legs yellowish bro^vn. 



Type locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 



Type.—Csit. No. 25451, U.S.N.M. 



Redescribed from the type specimen. 



3. LEPTACIS MINUTA (Ashmead). 



Plate 1, fig. 3. 



Amblyaspis minutus Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat Mus., 1893, p. 269. — Brues, 

 Connecticut State Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv., Bull. No. 22, 1916 (1917), p. 532. 



Female. — Length 0.80 mm. Frons shining, faintly shagreened, 

 without a median impressed line, not striate above the antennae; 

 head seen from in front wider than high, strongly rounded above; ver- 

 tex separated from the occiput by a low but sharp carina ; occiput 

 flat, polished; thorax slightly narrower than the head, two-thirds as 

 wide as long, convex dorsally, shining, with fine sculpture above; mes- 

 onotum truncate behind, without a median lobe, its posterior edge 

 touching the scutellum, thereby practically obliterating the scutellar 

 fovea; notauli absent; scutellum narrow, convex above, polished, 

 pubescent laterally, produced apically into a spine which reaches as 

 far as the base of the first abdominal segment ; abdomen slightly wider 

 than the thorax, two-thirds as wide as long, strongly convex above 

 and below; second tergite as wide as long, polished, narrowly pubes- 

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