326 A. L. MELANDEE. 



ventral carina developed, clothed above with a mat of silvery pubescence ; second 

 abdominal segment closely, deeply and uniformly punctured, the punctures 

 slightly deeper tban those of the thorax. In puteola the punctures are relatively 

 more distant and less deep. On each side of the middle of the basal third of 

 this segment is an elliptical sericeous spot; the hind margin for a distance of 

 one-sixth the segment closely fringed with sericeous white pubescence which 

 extends forward along the lateral margins; elsewhere the appressed pubescence 

 of this segment is black and sparser, becoming dirty yellow on the anterior por- 

 tion ; the scattered erect hairs conform in color with the appressed pubescence 

 out of which they arise; remaining segments with dusky hairs, the punctuation 

 minute; no pygidium. Legs ferruginous, their bristles and hairs concolorous. 

 Length, 5.5 mm. 



One specimen, collected by the Rev. G. Birkman at Fedor, Texas, 

 May 16, 1899. 



This species is closely related to puteola Bl., differing by its larger 

 size, stronger punctuation and more ornate marking. 



thinninje. 



Genus (HYPHOTES Blake. 



103. < ly photes Belfragei Blake (5). 



Fedor and Austin, Texas, and one large specimen from Mesilla 

 Park, New Mexico. Not rare. We have taken this in spider-nests 

 on window-sills, where they have become entangled during the 

 night while seeking to approach the light. 



104. Chy photes attciiuatus Blake (8). 



Mesilla Park and Santa Fe New Mexico. Also found at light at 

 Arrogo, New Mexico. Not rare. This belongs to the recently 

 erected genus Typhoctes Ashmead. The fore wing is represented in 

 fig. 63. * 



105. Cliypliotcs Heathii sp. nov. 



Male, Very slender, pale castaneous, legs concolorous, metathorax with fine 

 papilla? at the junctures of the usual reticulum which is absent, wings clouded 

 beyond the cells, stigma large, saturate, three submarginals, the outermost 

 quadrate. 



Whole insect castaneous except the black ocelli and eyes and the fuscous 

 flagellum. Head ovate, much produced behind, very sparsely punctulate, man- 

 dibles brownish at tip ; eyes large, round, subemarginate behind, the facets minute 

 but distinct; scape yellow, shorter than a flagellar joint, the pedicel yellow, one- 

 third the length of the next joint, antennse as long as the head and thorax. Pro- 

 thorax finely but unevenly punctured, mesothorax shining, finely punctate, with 

 two lateral grooves; scutellum impunctate except for a marginal row of setigei'- 

 ous punctures ; metathorax irregularly roughened, provided with fine tubercles 

 which appear to mark the junctures of the absent reticulum, posteriorly the 



