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long as the first joint of the flagellum, joints of the flagellum subequal. An- 

 tenna? (broken) more than eighteen jointed. Dorsulum shining, minutely, rather 

 closely punctured ; parapsidal grooves deeply impressed, converging and termi- 

 nating posteriorly in a semilunar impressed rugulose area, which is dullish; pro- 

 pleura shining, closely sculptured; mesopleura with a broad, shallow rugulose 

 groove traversing the segment diagonally, the upper portion of the segment also 

 rugulose, between these two rugulose spaces is a shining, rather sparsely punc- 

 tured space; metanotum rugulose, almost reticulate, with an indistinct median 

 raised line, metapleura regularly rugulose, but more finely so than the meta- 

 notum, and dullish; wings clear, stigma brown, the anterior and posterior ends 

 yellowish; nervures brown, first discoidal cell petiolate, the petiole very short, 

 shorter than the first abcissa of the radius, which is as long as the first abcissa 

 of the discoidal cervure, second abcissa of the radius shorter than the second 

 transverse cubitus. Abdomen polished; the first segment longitudinally striate, 

 the strife fine and close together. Thinly sericeous, with short, white pubes- 

 cence. Ferruginous; head and abdomen inclining to testaceous; tarsi brown- 

 ish ; sheaths of the ovipositor blackish ; metanotum dark, rather blackish. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Morton county, Kansas, 3200 

 feet. One specimen. June, 1902, F. H. Snow. 



Lysiphlebus succineus, n. sp. 



Related to L. multiarticulatus, from which it may be distinguished at once 

 by the immaculate dorsum of thorax. 



Male — Length, 3 mm. Head shining, almost polished, smooth and appar- 

 ently impunctate; antennae nineteen jointed, scape and flagellum together a little 

 longer than the first joint of the flageilum, joints of the flagellum subequal. 

 Thorax shining, almost polished; the dorsulum especially smooth and polished; 

 the parapsidal grooves rather distin-ot on the anterior half, strongly curved ; 

 metanotum roughened, transversely divided by a rather indistinct raised line, 

 apical half longitudinally divided by another indistinct raised line, the basal half 

 longitudinally divided by, apparently, two indistinct raised lines that are very 

 close together; wings transparent with a yellowish-brown tint, stigma testaceous, 

 tinged with black; nervures brown, the stump of the radius beyond the tran- 

 verse cubitus distinctly longer than the tranverse cubitus, the stump of the 

 cubitus distinctly shorter than the transverse cubitus, the first abcissa of the 

 radius nearly as long as the transverse cubitus and second abcissa or stump of the 

 radius combined. Brownish testaceous; face with a dark brown spot in the 

 middle; vertex and upper part of occiput black; second, third and fourth ab- 

 dominal segments partly blackish; legs pale testaceous; flagellum almost black. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality : Douglas county, Kansas. One 

 specimen. August, E. S, Tucker. 



Paratype with eighteen joints to the antennae. July ; same place. 



Aspilota Columbiana, n. sp. 



Female— Length, 1.5 mm. Head polished and smooth; antennag eighteen 

 jointed, scape and pedicellum together a little longer than the first joint of the 

 flagellum. Thorax smooth and highly polished; a short, oblique, smooth, shallow 

 depression on mesopleura; metathorax perfectly smooth and polished like the 

 dorsulum; wings transparent, almost clear, tinted with brownish yellow; first 

 abcissa of the radius a little longer than the second transverse cubitus, the second 

 transverse cubitus nearly twice as long as the second abcissa of the cubitus, which 

 is a little longer than the transverse median nervure, transverse median nervure 

 and first abcissa of the discoidal nervure equal. Abdomen polished, apparently 



