74 HENRY SKINNER, EDITOR. 



Formica f'nsca var. neogagates Em. 



Two £ $ . 



Formica f'usca var. densiventris n. subsp.— Length 4.5-5 mm. — 

 Underside of head without erect hairs. Head dull, dark fuscous above, paler 

 below, scape same color as cheeks, head and thorax above with sparse few hairs, 

 flagellum darker, especially near apex, thorax dull, dark above like head, along 

 the suture a lateral irregular stripe and metathorax posteriorly paler, coxae, 

 femora and tibise dark like thorax above, anterior tibiae slightly paler, but faintly 

 shining, apexes, trochanters and tarsi paler, tarsi with sparse hairs, scale not 

 broadened as in subsericea, fuscous. Abdomen dull sericeous, dorsal segments 

 with sparse short hairs. 



Black. Apical segments pale. Two £ £ . 



Type, Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila, Type locality, Beulah, 

 N. M., Aug. 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). Two $ $ , head of Dailey 

 Canon, June 26 (T. D. A. Cockerel!). 



The following is submitted by Prof. Cockerell : 



List of ants collected at Beulah. Sapello Canon, N. M., May 3, 1902, by T. D. A. 

 and W. P. Cockerell, and determined by Prof. W. M. Wheeler. 



1. Camponotus pennsylvanicus DeGeer (small var.). 



2. Myrmica rubra L., sub sp. scabrinodis (small dark var.). 



3. Myrmica rubra L.. sub sp. sulcinodoides Em. (dark var.). 



4. Formica sanguinea L., var. subnuda Emery, (originally described from British 



America). 



5. Formica fusc.a L., var. subsericea. 



6. Formica fusca L., sub sp. subpolita Mayr, var. neogagates Em. 



7. Formica rufa L., var. 



8. Lasins niger var. neoniger Em. 



9. Lepiothorax canadensis Provancher. 



10. Tapinoma sessile Say . (small var.). 



PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



SCELIONID^E. 



Scelio aslimeadi n. sp. — Black (legs excepted), wings hyaline, faintly 

 milky. 



% Length 4 mm. — Head striate anterolateral^, above the middle the head is 

 rugoso-punctate, with sparse appressed pubescence, joints of flagellum dull 

 sculptured. Pronotum, mesonotum and dorsolum rugoso-punctate, pubescent 

 like head, furrows on mesonotum distinct, originating near anterior margin, ter- 

 minating on posterior margin. Metauotum distinctly angled laterally, im- 

 pressed medially, posterior half of impression ridged longitudinally, sides of the 



