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external genitalia black. Pubescence chestnut brown. Antenna 45- 

 segmented, eye bare, ocelli elevated, vertex smooth, polished; frons 

 transversely striate, and with a median longitudinal elevation; face 

 slightly less than three times as wide as long, smooth, polished, slightly 

 convex, and with a minute, median tubercle above, clypeus smooth, 

 polished, its median apical margin slightly flaring, not notched; 

 temple and eye of about equal width; occiput aciculate; galea short. 

 Median portion of lateral face of pronotum rugose; median lobe of 

 mesoscutum without a distinct longitudinal depression on each side 

 of median line; notaulices finely foveolate; scutellum sculptured 

 apically ; mesopleuron strongly punctate or ruguloso-punctate, upper 

 groove wide and coarsely rugulose; lower groove foveolate, posterior 

 groove finely foveolate ; metapleuron rugose, with a triangular, smooth 

 and shining area on anterior portion ; propodeum rugose, its carinae 

 including costulae moderately high, areola smaller than the spirac- 

 ular area, spiracle ovate. First abscissa of radius longer than that 

 of basal vein ; third abscissa of cubitus shorter than fourth ; recurrent 

 vein and second abscissa of cubitus about equal ; nervulus postf ureal 

 by half of its own length ; first abscissa of submedius slightly longer 

 than second ; interanal vein represented by a pigmented line, second 

 and fifth segments of fore tarsus about equal; hind tibia without 

 apical thickening or a flaring process ; inner spur of middle tibia about 

 0.60 as long as the basitarsus, second and fifth tarsal segments about 

 equal ; inner spur of hind tibia about 0.60 as long as basitarsus, basi- 

 tarsus slightly shorter than the last three tarsal segments combined, 

 second and third tarsal segments longer than fifth ; hind tarsal claws 

 pectinate, each with seven short teeth basally. First abdominal suture 

 slightly curved to the margin ; second abdominal tergite shorter than 

 the third. 



Tyj)e. — In the University of Kansas. 



In addition to the male type, from Morton County, Kans., the 

 writer has seen three male specimens simply labeled "Texas." 



CARDIOCHILES ORIZABAE (Cresson), new combination 



Toxoneuron orizabae Cresson, Can. Ent., vol. 5, pp. 66, 67, 1873 (male). 



Male. — ^Length 4.2 mm. Black; legs black, with foreleg more or 

 less yellowish brown beyond base of femur, and knee of middle leg 

 yellowish brown; wings light fuliginous. Antenna 30-segmented ; 

 eye hairy ; ocelli slightly elevated ; vertex about as long as the frons, 

 smooth, shining; frons smooth, shining, and with an incomplete, low, 

 median longitudinal carina; face less than one and one-half times 

 as wide as long, smooth, shining, with a small median tubercle above ; 

 clypeus smooth, shining, its apical margin notched medially; temple 



