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oblique on the sides, the disk with a well impressed longitudinal line; meso- 

 pleura with a prominent angle beneath; wings yellowish subhyaline, the apex 

 with costal half fuliginous and subviolaceous, costal nerve and stigma fulvous; 

 abdomen with large deep uneven punctures, sometimes more or less confluent, 

 the transverse median depressions on the segments above more closely and finely 

 punctured; sometimes the depressed disk of apical segment is varied with fer- 

 ruginous. Length .60 — .65 inch. 



Hah. — Montana, (Morrison). The clypeus is formed much as in 

 fulviceps Cress. 



]flellinus abdoiiiiiialis.— 9.— Black; head and thorax almost smooth, 

 subopaque; short line on upper anterior orbits, flagellum beneath except at base, 

 palpi, narrow line on posterior margin of prothorax, transversely quadrate spot 

 on scutellum, a smaller one on postscutellum, upper margin of tubercles, some- 

 times a dot behind, spot on tegulse, apical half of four anterior femora beneath, 

 their tibise beneath and most of their tarsi, all lemon-yellow; apical middle of 

 clypeus produced, truncate, with a short acute medial tooth, the lateral angles of 

 the truncation more or less acute and dentiform ; the enclosed raised space at base 

 of metathorax above, smooth and shining, opaque and rugulose at base; wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, nervures black ; tips of posterior tarsi rufo-testaceous ; abdomen 

 shining, rufo-ferruginous, base of first, and the two or three apical segments more 

 or less black; first segment clavate, but not protuberant at tip above. Length 

 .40 — .45 inch. 



% . — More slender than 9 , especially the abdomen ; anterior orbits, clypeus 

 more or less, most of mandibles, antennae beneath except the two apical joints, 

 the tenth and eleventh joints above, line on posterior margin of prothorax, spot 

 on tegulse, two beneath, another on scutellum and postscutellum, coxse beneath, 

 and sometimes a spot on eacih side of abdominal segments 3 — 5, white or yellowish- 

 white; all the femora and tibise beneath lemon-yellow; tarsi fulvo-testaceous, 

 except the posterior pair at base; the face, cheeks, thorax beneath and metathorax 

 with a silvery sericeous pile ; sides of clypeus generally stained with brown; first 

 segment of abdomen beneath and the three or four apical segments above and 

 beneath mostly black, apex beneath with a tuft of yellowish hair. Length 

 ..3(1— .40 inch. 



Hah. — Montana, (Morrison). Easily recognized by the ferruginous 

 abdomen, the first segment of which is not nodose at apex above as in 

 rujinodus, which it much resembles in form and sculpture. 



The following additions to the Library of the x\merican Entomological 

 Society were announced : — 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. ix, Nos. 1 

 and 2. From the Publication Committee. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 1881, part 2. From the Academy. 



Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, vol. vii. From 

 the Academy. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1881, sigs. 

 5 — 8. From the Society. 



