178 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



and with longitudinal elevations, the following segments smooth and shining, the 

 second segment largely testaceous, only the lateral margins brownish, the suc- 

 ceeding segments more or less faintly inclining to testaceous in the middle. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality. — Lawrence, Kansas. 



One specimen taken at night, June (E. S. Tucker). 



Aphierela delosa Vier. 



Two 9 taken at twilight in August and June (E. S. Tucker). 



Liiiuiieriiini perdistincta Vier. 



Male taken at night, April, Lawrence, Kansas (E. S. Tucker}. 

 Differs from the type as follows : antennae thirty jointed ; posterior 

 femora blackish at extreme base and apex, posterior tibiae with the 

 apical third and nearly all of the basal third blackish, the middle 

 third and a little of the basal third adjoining the middle third largely 

 yellow, the abdominal segments are colored much the same as in the 

 9 , but the apical segments have more of black than ferruginous, the 

 latter color being tinged with testaceous and confined to triangular 

 areas on the sides of the dorsal segments. 



Male taken at twilight, August, Lawrence, Kansas (E. S. Tucker). 

 Differs from the type as follows : an tenme thirty jointed ; eyes dis- 

 tinctly metallic green ; scape and pedicellum brownish ; the areola 

 of the metanotum is shorter, with the lateral carinse broken below 

 the middle. 



liiiuiieriuin lawreiicei n. sp. 



Very like L. f nephelodes Ashm. in color. 



9 . — 7 mm. — Head — Very finely sculptured ; the face finely granular and dull, cov- 

 ered with white pubescence, which is not sufficiently abundant to obscure the sculpture; 

 the cheeks not as broad as the eye. a little narrower, and the rest of the head, excepting 

 the mandibles and mouth-parts, black ; antenna? black, thirty-five jointed, /7ie ^rs< 

 joint of the fiagellum ns lovg as the scape and pedicellum together, and a little longer 

 than the second joint ; mandibles yellow, tipjjed ivith brown ; palpi whitish. 



Thorax. — Very like the head in sculpture, black ; the dorsulum and metathorax dull 

 like the face, the pleura more shining like the cheeks; metathorax with distinct raised 

 lines and almost completely areolated, the areola not distinctly separated from the 

 petiolarea, a little more than twice as long as the greatest width, granular and 

 separated from the postscutellum by a nearly quadrate area, the basal area, the 

 sides of the areola are angled at the upper third, external and external median 

 areas continent, angular area not well defined, almost taken up by the internal 

 area, spiracular area and middle pleural areas confluent, the spiracular area partially 

 separated by a raised line connecting the spiracle with the pleural carina; wings clear, 



