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L.iiiiiieria fiira, n. sp. 



9- — Black, minutely punctured, rather shining, with a very short, fine, 

 whitish pile; face flattened, subgranulate ; mandibles large, orange-yellow, 

 black at base and apex: scutellum subconvex, polished; metathorax short, 

 posterior face, deeply and longitudinally excavated, a bisinuate carina near 

 base, enclosing on each side a smooth semicircular space ; tegulte white ; pleura 

 shining, with a lateral shallow excavation; wings dusky hyaline, nervures 

 and stigma black, areolet rather large, triangular, not petiolated ; femora 

 bright rufo-ferruginous, posterior j)air robust, four anterior tibiae more or less, 

 and. their tarsi except tips of joints, pale yellowish, extreme base of posterior 

 tibiae, their spurs and extreme base of tarsal joints, whitish; abdomen robust, 

 convex, subclavate, smooth and sericeous, with pale pubescence, first segment 

 smooth and polished, apex swollen ; venter pale; ovipositor half the length of 

 abdomen. Length .35 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) 



Liiiuneria anniili|)e!>i. 



Mcsoleptus annulipcs, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 257. 

 One $ specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Liiinueria obi^onra. 



Mesoleptus obscurus. Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 261. 

 Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Liiniiieria rivali!<$, n. sp. 



% 9. — Black, opaque, clothed with a short pale glittering pubescence; 

 mandibles except tips, palpi and tegulae white; scape beneath honey-yellow; 

 metathorax rounded above, with sharply defined elevated lines, forming a 

 large elongate central area; wings hyaline, areolet small, triangular, petio- 

 lated; legs pale ferruginous, trochanters of 9 ^Q"! four anterior coxae and tro- 

 chanters and anterior tibiae and tarsi of % whitish; extreme tips of posterior 

 tibiae and of their tarsal joints of 9> and their tarsi entirely of %, fuscous; ab- 

 domen subconipressed at tip, ferruginous, base of first segment of % , and first 

 segment except apex, and base of second of 9 j black; apex of first segment 

 rather suddenly swollen behind middle; ovipositor of 9 half the length of ab- 

 domen. Length .20 — .25 inch. 



Two specimens. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



<'haroi>$« tibiali<«, n. s]i. 



%. — Black, clothed with short pale pubescence; mandibles, j)alpi, scape 

 beneath and tegulae white ; scutellum broad, flat, pubescent; metathorax short, 

 subexcavated behind, coarsely sculptured; wings hyaline, iridescent; legs 

 black, two anterior pairs except coxae ferruginous, their trochanters whitish, 

 posterior tibiae with a very broad whitish annulus nearly reaching base; abdo- 

 men very slender at base, broad, compressed and truncate at apex. Length 

 .25 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



