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Type, Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. Type locality, Beulah, N. 

 M., Aug. 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). Six specimen?, one specimen 

 varies in having greater part of second and fifth, and all of third 

 and fourth abdominal segments ferruginous, two other specimens 

 show a gradation between these extremes. 



Spilocryptu* exareolatus n. sp. — Face opaque, dorsulum opaque aud 

 shining, metathorax indistinctly areolated. head and thorax black, legs and 

 abdomen more or legs ferruginous. 



£, Length 7.5 mm. Clypeus indistinctly sculptured, somewhat shining, face 

 minutely roughened, opaque, head behind ocelli and cheeks finely, indistinctly 

 sculptured, shiniug. Antenuse as long as from the head to the apex of third 

 abdominal segment, first joint of flagellum distinctly longer than the second, 

 the second longer than the third. Head covered with fine silvery, indistinct 

 hair. Parapsidal grooves distinct disappearing in a rugulose area on the poste- 

 rior third of dorsulum, the area formed by them opaque, the space to each side 

 indistinctly sculptured, shining. Mesopleurse roughened, furrow indistinct, 

 crenulate. Scutellum convex, shining. Metathorax rugulose, only the curved 

 transverse ridge behind spiracles distinct, other ridges hardly discernable Dor- 

 sulum covered with very short, fine pubescence, that on sternum and metathorax 

 longer. Wings subhyaline, stigma and uervuresdark brown, transverse median 

 nervure broken just above the middle, areolet large, first transverse cubitus 

 longer than the second, abdomen finely sculptured, shining, especially near apex, 

 with indistinct very short pubescence. 



Black. Four anterior legs excepting coxa? and basal trochanter, more or less 

 testaceous, the posterior femora and apical trochanters darker. Posterior tibia? 

 brown at apex paler at base. Basal tarsal joint of posterior legs brown, second, 

 third and fourth almost white, the remaining one and claws black or almost. 

 Apex of petiole, second, third and all but apex of fourth abdominal segments, 

 fuscous. 



Related to S. canadensis Prov. Type, Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, 

 Phila. Type locality, Beulah, N. M., Aug. 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). 



Spilocryptus neoinexi<*aiia n. sp.— Basal joints of flagellum separ- 

 ated by distinct sutures. Parapsidal grooves distinct, transverse raised line on 

 metanotum distinct in middle, faint on the sides. No distinct punctuation on 

 head or thorax. Belated to lophyri Nort., which differs in the characters cited. 



% Length 8 mm. Face aud thorax dorsally, uniformly finely roughened, 

 opaque. Occipital region, pleurae and abdominal segments indistinctly, finely 

 sculptured, more shining. Wings subfuscous, nervures dark brown, stigma 

 paler. Areolet pentagonal, space between first and second transverse cubiti on 

 the radial about equal to space between recurrent nervure and second submar- 

 ginal cell on the cubitus. 



Black. An almost continuous ring around eyes; clypeus except apical margin, 

 base of labrum, line on superior lateral trargin and inferior lateral margin of 

 prothorax, tegulse, base of wings, spot below, spot on epimerium, scutellum, spot 

 on postscutellum, posterior face of metathorax, spots on eox;e, trochanters of 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. (11) JANUARY. 1903. 



