TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. • 1&5 



Liabidiis minor, n. sp. 



% . — Riifo-testaceous, covered with a very short appressed yellowish silkr 

 pile; head black, face and mandibles ferruginous; eyes large and prominent; 

 ocelli prominent, glassy, each posterior ocellus much nearer to the eye than to 

 each other; mandibles long, slender, curved, acute at tips; two short longi- 

 tudinal obtuse ridges above insertion of antennse; antennre not as long as head 

 and thorax, rufo-testaceous, subcompressed at tips, scape robust; thorax 

 strongly gibbous in front, much less so behind, closely and finely punctured, 

 more or less tinged with brown above; mesothorax with a well-impressed cen- 

 tral longitudinal line on anterior half and a finely impressed line on each side 

 over the tegulaj; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma conspicuous, fuscous, ncr- 

 vures hyaline, marginal cell elongate triangular, pointed at tip, second sub- 

 marginal coll long and narrow, base and ajiex rounded, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure a little before the middle; legs slender, shorter than usual; abdomen 

 subcompressed, sericeous, peduncle transversely quadrangular and subconvex, 

 base declivous and slightly concave, sides rounded, apex truncate, the anglt'8 

 subacute, sides scarcely raised; aj)ical ventral segment furnished with two 

 stout acute recurved teeth, between which is a minute acute tooth, sometimes 

 indistinct. Length .35 inch. 



Nine speciuicns. (Belfrage.) Smaller than Ilarrisii which it 

 closely resembles, but the pubescence on the former species is much 

 longer and coarser, the antennee longer, the wings darker, etc. 



Iiabi<lus nielsliscineri. 



Labius Mclshdacmeri, Ilald. Stansb. Salt Lake Exped. Append, p. 368, pi. 9, 

 fig. 7. 



Three % specimens. (Belfrage.) 



MUTILLID.E. 



Mutilla Grotci. 



Mutilla Grotei, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 22S. 

 Four % specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Ulutilla Proincthea. 



Mutilla Promeihca, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 229. 

 Three % specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Mutilla Sayi. 



Mutilla Sayi, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 229. 

 Three Z specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Mutilla ornativcntris. 



Mutilla ornativcntris, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 438. 

 Seven 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Mutilla Ncrupea. 



Mutilla scrupea, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 297. 

 One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



