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N. M., August 17, 1901 (H. Skinner), Three females, one male. 

 The metathorax is subject to slight structural variation, in the para- 

 types the sculpture is somewhat coarser and the raised line absent. 



Meteonis mellinervus n. sp.— Face subopaqne; parapsidal grooves 

 almost obsolete; metathorax with a delicate median raised line. First abdomi- 

 nal segment polished. 



9 Length 3 mm. Ovipositor somewhat shorter than the abdomen. Face and 

 clypeus indistinctly sculptured. Cheeks polished. Dorsulum shining on the 

 borders, a quadrate space in the centre rugulose-opaque. Mesoplenrae mostly 

 polished, almost impunctate, with an oblique, delicately defined, rugulose im- 

 pressed track. Metathorax moderately rugulose, the raised line extending from 

 apex to base. Mesopleura visibly separated from metanotum, less coarsely 

 sculptured. Wings hyaline, faintly yellowish, stigma pale testaceous, nervu res 

 darker, transverse median nervure received a little beyond the basal nervure, 

 almost interstitial. Second abcissa of radius hardly twice the length of the first 

 abcissa, the first cubital nervure about as long as the first and second abcissa 

 united, the second cubitus a little longer than the second abcissa of radius, the 

 second abcissa of cubitus a little shorter than the first cubital nervure. First 

 abdominal segment obscurely, finely, longitudinally striate, all the segments 

 polished. 



Head more or less dark ochraceous-rufous, apex of mandibles, spot between 

 ocelli, dark brown. Mesonotum colored almost like head, except laterally, where 

 it is almost black, pleurae various shades of brown, rnetapleurae partly dark 

 brown, metanotum entirely, almost black. Segments two and three more or less 

 dark testaceous to brownish. Apex of abdomen pale, before the apex brown. 

 Coxae, trochanters, femora and tibiae pale, somewhat testaceous, tarsi darker. 



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

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



Chelouus sericeus Say, 9- 



Nine specimens, one July 27 (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



< heloims filicornis Cam. 

 One 9 . 



Chelonus australis n. sp. — Clypeus and scutellum shining, otherwise 

 opaque. Spines of metathorax short, blunt. 



%, Length 4 mm. Clypeus closely punctured, slightly impressed medially. 

 Face transversely rugose. Cheeks indistinctly sculptured. Head transverse. 

 Dorsulum rugoso-punctate, somewhat smooth on the sides posteriorly. Meso- 

 pleura more finely sculptured. Mesothorax rugose, with two widely separated, 

 crude, longitudinal carinae. Metapleurae more distinctly punctate than meso- 

 pleurae. Wings subhyaline, stigma almost black, basal nervures pale, otherwise 

 the nervure are light brown. Space between the basal and transverse median 

 nervures on the medial nervure greater than the length of the first abcissa of 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. FEBRUARY. 1903. 



