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little beyond the basal nervure. Metathorax with a superior smooth shining 

 face bisected longitudinally by a sharp ridge, posterior face apparently coarsely, 

 rather sparsely wrinkled or ridged, no parallel carina at all evident. Abdomen 

 smooth and polished ; the first segment dullish, longitudinally rugulose; sheaths 

 of the ovipositor as long as the abdomen, ovipositor hidden. Almost bare, 

 pubescent as in subtricarinata. Black and as in subtricarinata, but in this 

 species the following exceptions to that pattern occur: The propleurae are 

 brownish, the metanotum is brownish to brownish testaceous, the first abdominal 

 segment is brownish testaceous. 



Male. — Length, 2.5 mm. Very much like the female; the posterior face of 

 the metathorax not so coarsely wrinkled, brownish, nearly black. Antennae 

 twenty-four jointed. 



Types: University of Kansas. Type locality : Douglas county, Kansas. Both 

 types taken in August, E. S. Tucker. 



Paratype, same place and date, with the metathorax piceous, almost perfectly 

 black; in other respects similar to the type, excepting the anteDna3, which are 

 twenty-two jointed. 



Agathis wyomingensis, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 7 mm.; ovipositor, 5 mm. Head polished, sparsely punc- 

 tured with minute punctures; scape clavate, curved, a little shorter than the 

 first joint of the flagellum, pedicellum as long as wide, a little shorter than one- 

 fourth the length of the first joint of the flagellum. Antennaj more than fifteen 

 jointed (tips broken). Thorax polished, sparsely punctured, in some places with 

 minute punctures; junction of the metanotum and metapleura rugulose, meta- 

 notum medially on the anterior half with a longitudinal narrow convexity that 

 is bounded by a somewhat crenulate furrows making a kind of oval enclosure 

 which terminates in a raised line that entends to the apex of the metanotum; 

 wings fuscous, nervures and stigma very dark brown, second submarginal cell 

 petiolate, the petiole nearly as long as the exterior side of the triangle. Abdo- 

 men polished; first segment with longitudinal ridges that become suddenly obso- 

 lete in the middle of the segment, are nearly parallel, and as wide from each other as 

 from the sides, diverging at the base to meet the sides. Almost bare, pubescence 

 white, extremely short and inconspicuous. Red ; head black except malar space 

 and part of cheeks and apex of clypeus, which are reddish; four anterior cox:e, 

 trochanters and femora black excepting the apex of femora, which is reddish; 

 four anterior tibia? reddish brown, dark brownish at apex; posterior trochanters 

 black; tibiit blackish at base and apex; tarsi blackish; ovipositor and sheaths 

 black ; extreme base, and venter of abdomen largely black, dorsum of abdomen 

 with some blackish suffusion on the sides near the middle. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Lusk, Wyo. One specimen. 

 July, 1895, Hugo Kahl. 



Vipio erythrus, n. sp. 



* Male. — Length, 7 mm. Head polished; front with a median longitudinal 

 impressed line; face with irregularly separated shallow punctures, the clypeus 

 not clearly separated from the adjoining tegument. Antenna? broken, more than 

 forty jointed. Thorax polished ; the parapsidal grooves not at all deeply impressed, 

 practically obsolete on the posterior half of the mesonotum; nietathorax with the 

 charactetistic longitudinal groove above which the metapleura are minutely 

 punctured; wings as in the preceding species. Abdomen polished; the first 

 segment with a broad, medial, elevated, smooth, convex portion, on each side of 

 which is finely striated space bounded by a fold beyond which is a smooth chan- 



