200 E. T. CRESSON. 



Splieoodes mandibnlaris, n. sp. 



9 . — Black, shining, closely and finely punctured, thinly clothed with 

 glittering whitish hairs, more dense on face, cheeks, scutellum and sides of 

 thorax, and long on scutellum; mandibles ferruginous, tips black; antennse 

 short, stout, apex of flagellum pale testaceous beneath; mesothorax sparsely 

 punctured; basal space of metathorax slightly excavated, coarsely rugose, the 

 • posterior edge subcarinate; basal sides of metathorax with a patch of white 

 downy pubescence; tegulse pale testaceous, darker at base; wings hyaline, 

 subiridescent, nervures and stigma blackish; tibiae and tarsi with rather dense 

 glittering pubescence, tarsi pale; abdomen oblong-ovate, smooth and polished, 

 bright rufo-ferruginous, base, sides and apex with a thin pale glittering pube- 

 scence, apex slightly dusky. Length .22 inch. 

 Two specimens. (Belfra.t^e.) 



Ilalietus occidentalis, n. sp. 



2- — Black, opaque, finely punctured; head not wider than thorax; face 

 with rather dense pale ochraceous pubescence; clypeus shining, sparsely punc- 

 tured, apex fringed with long golden hairs ; mandibles reddish medially ; cheeks 

 with appressed whitish pubescence, fringed beneath with long yellowish 

 hairs; vertex and occiput with short erect pale ochraceous pubescence; an- 

 tennae brownish beneath, pale at apex; mesothorax and scutellum with a 

 finely impressed central longitudinal line, clothed with a very short pnle 

 pubescence: upper lateral margin of prothorax, patch before tegulee, narrow 

 lateral and posterior margins of metathorax, postscutellum, sides of metatho- 

 rax and pleura clothed with dense ochraceous pubescence ; base of metathorax 

 finely subgranulated ; tegulae pale testaceous; wings yellowish, apical margin 

 fuliginous; legs fulvous, with golden pubescence, coxse, trochanters and base 

 of femora more or less blackish; abdomen br*oader than thorax, oblong-ovate, 

 very finely and closely punctured, shining towards apex, first segment clothed 

 with erect pale pubescence, apical margins of segments 1 — 4 with an even 

 fascia of dense white pubescence, and rima pale ochraceous. Length .55 inch. 



%. — Narrower than J; clypeus except two black spots at base, labrura and 

 middle of mandibles pale yellow; antennse long, pale fulvous beneath; sides 

 of mesothorax and of metathorax and disk of first abdominal segment some- 

 times tinged with ferruginous; apex of wings but slightly dusky; knees, tibise 

 and tarsi more or less tinged with yellow; abdomen narrower than in 9 and 

 more strongly punctured, anal segment more or less tinged with ferruginous or 

 fulvous. Length .45 inch. 



Four specimens. (_Belfrage ; Boll.) 



Halicttis ai'iiiaticeps, n. sp. 



9- — Black, head and thorax rather thickly clothed with griseous pubes- 

 ceni^e ; head slightly broader than thorajc, very densely punctured, opaque; 

 (ilypeus shining, very sparsely punctured, slightly depressed on anterior mid- 

 dle, apex fringed with long golden hairs; mandibles piceous; cheeks beneath 

 with a subacute tubercle or spine on each side; antennte short, flagellum brown 

 beneath, paler at tips; thorax above closely punctured and thinly jDubescent, 

 scutellum flat, shining, sparsely punctured, postscutellum, sides of metathorax. 

 sides of thorax in front of tegulse and pleura densely pubescent; base of meta- 

 thorax finely longitudinally rugose, sometimes almost striated; tegulse rufo- 



