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Antenna rufous, feet and extreme tip of the ovipositor tinged with ru- 

 fous. 



"Measurements : Female — Length of body, 18mm.; of antenna?, 35mm.; 

 of pronotum, 4.75 mm.; of tegniina, 19 mm.; of hind femora, 15.5 mm.; of 

 ovipositor, 10 mm."— Brunei". 



A single female of this species was taken in Fulton county, August 26th, 

 1892, from the borders of the tamarack swamp previously noted. It 

 agrees exactly with Mr. Bruner's description, and therefore I have copied 

 the latter verbatim. He described the species from two females taken 

 from the flowers of a prairie golden rod, Solidago rigida, L., at West Point, 

 Neb. The male is not as yet known. The species probably occurs in 

 small numbers in low, damp prairies, but as, aside from the long, straight 

 ovipositor, it bears a somewhat general resemblance to 0. vulgare, it has 

 heretofore been overlooked, or confounded with that common insect. 



hh. Posterior femora armed on the lower outer carina 

 with several small spines. 



30. Orchelimum bruxeri, Blatchley. 



Orchelimum bruneri, Blatchley, Canad. Entom., XXV., 1893, 92. 



A species of medium size and rather slender body with the posterior 

 femora armed beneath, and the ovipositor very broad, nearly straight and 

 of more than average length. 



Cone of the vertex narrow, moderately elevated, rounded at apex. 

 Tegmina long and narrow, a little shorter than the wings. Posterior 

 femora rather stout, the apex, when appressed, not quite reaching the 

 tip of ovipositor ; armed beneath on the apical half with three or four 

 small spines. Cerci of male stout, acuminate, with the internal tooth 

 prominent. 



Ovipositor very similar to that of 0. gladiator, Bruner, being very long 

 and stout, nearly straight above, and with the under side of apical third 

 sloping rapidly to the acute apex. 



Color of dried specimens. — With the exception of the ovipositor, which 

 is a light reddish-brown, and the usual stripe on occiput and disk of pro- 

 notum, the whole body is a pale, transparent brownish-green, the green 

 showing plainly only on the lower half of the side of pronotum and on 

 the meso and metapleura. The reddish-brown dorsal stripe of occiput 

 and pronotum is bordered laterally throughout its entire length with a 

 very narrow one of much darker brown. When immersed in alcohol the 



