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Darniisa Ifeviceps, n. sp. 



9 • — Black, smooth and shining, with a short pale pubescence, dense on 

 metathorax and first abdominal segment; mandibles red; palpi, scape and 

 tegulae pale honey-yellow; antennae longer than body, flagellum fuscous; 

 wings subhyaline, iridescent, stigma long, fuscous, radial nerve thickened and 

 black, radial cell very large; legs pale honey-yellow, coxse paler, tibiae darker, 

 posterior tarsi obfuscated; abdomen dull honey-yellow, smooth and shining, 

 first segment black, rugulose; ovipositor as long as abdomen. Length .18 inch. 

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



-I Daenusa minima, n. sp. 



%. — Black, smooth and shining; mandibles, palpi, scape and legs entirely 

 pale yellowish; antennas as long as body, black; metathorax with dense pale 

 pubescence; wings hyaline, iridescent, radial cell very long; abdomen some- 

 times tinged with brownish, shining, first segment narrow, longitudinally ru- 

 gulose. Length .10 inch. 



Three specimens. (Belfrage.) 



CHALCIDID^. 



liencospis texana. 



Leucospis texana, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 31, % . 

 Two specimens. (Belfrage.) Differs greatly in form from ajjinia, 

 Say, the abdomen being much shorter, broader at apex and much nar- 

 rowed to base ; the posterior femora much more swollen, being almost 

 circular and having only four distinct teeth, three of which are \erj 

 large, long and scarcely dilated at base. 



lietioospii^ aflinis. 



Leucospis affinis, Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii., p. 327. Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. iv., p. 32. 



Five S 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Smicra rurofcmorata. 



Smicra rufofemorala, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 39. 

 Two % specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Smiera torvina. 



Smicra torvina, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 40. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Smicra delira. 



Smicra delira, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 41. 



One % specimen. (Coll. Q-. W. Belfrage.) 



Smicra snbobsolcta. 



Smicra subobsolela, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 42. 

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



Smicra sanguiiiiventris. 



Smicra sanguiniventris, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv., p. 43. 

 One 9 specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.j 



