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finely apparently transversely striate. Wings subhyaline, almost clear, stigma 

 and nervures dark brown, base of t lie wings yellow. Abdomen polished, petiole 

 about as long as posterior femora with a small oval impression near the apex. 



Black. Greater part of mandibles, tegula?, greater part of trochanters, the 

 femora and tibise ferruginous, tarsi dark brown. 



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

 N. M., August 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). 



4'hirof icn inei'inis n. sp. — Head and thorax chiefly microscopically 

 sculptured, pedicel, scape and legs, pale, almost unicolorous, otherwise mostly 

 black. Wings ample, stigma large, triangular. 



% Length 4.5 mm. C'lypeus microscopically sculptured, somewhat shining, 

 anterior part of face much like clypeus, the posterior part more closely sculp- 

 tured, opaque. Cheeks like clypeus, head around the ocelli and front, opaque. 

 Mandibles short and heavy, bidentate, the teeth short and equal. Sutures of tia- 

 gellum indistinct. Dorsulum microscopically sculptured, dull, shining, parapsi- 

 dal grooves not deep nor extending halfway back. Mesopleurse almost smooth, 

 shining. Metathorax gently convex, indistinctly punctured, rather opaque and 

 with a median impression on the superior face, shining near the base. The 

 spiracles small, round. The metapleurse separated from the metanotum by a 

 salient rim. Wings subhyaline, the second recurrent nervure almost at right 

 angles with the short vein beyond its juncture with the cubitus, transverse 

 median nervure of anterior wings interstitial with basal nervure; abcissa of disco- 

 cubital nervure curved and about as long as first transverse cubitus. Stigma 

 longer than wide, brown, the corner on the costa and near the basal nervure 

 yellow, from here a hyaline belt extends across the cubito-discoidal cell. The 

 cubito-discoidal nervure between the abcissa and transverse cubitus, the second 

 recurrent nervure in the middle and at apex, with short hyaline breaks, other- 

 wise the nervures are brown, base of the anterior wings yellow. Petiole and 

 second and third abdominal segments minutely sculptured subopaque, the remain- 

 ing segments shining. Scape, pedicel and tegulre, testaceous. Mandibles, except 

 basal half and teeth, the legs with the exception of coxae, more or less ferrugi- 

 nous. Coxa? with an inconspicuous white spot on apex. The second entirely 

 and the third abdominal segment, except apical margin, semi-transparent, with 

 two parallel longitudinal brown lines in the middle and lateral pale brown 

 blotches. 



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

 X. ML, August 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). One male specimen. 



Lissonota fenella n. sp.— Head and dorsulum finely punctured, sub- 

 opaque, mesopleuraj anteriorly gently convex, not divided by a longitudinal 

 raised line ; transverse carina on metanotum obscurely indicated ; raised line sep- 

 arating metanotum from metapleura, distinct, curved, approaching close to the 

 spiracles. 



9 Length 5.5 mm. Clypeus distinctly convex, about one and a half times 

 broader than long, sparsely punctured ; face somewhat shining on median eleva- 

 tion, otherwise rather opaque and indistinctly punctured. Front finely indis- 

 tinctly punctured, cheeks more shining, punctured. Malar space large. Dorsu- 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JANUARY, 1903. 



