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fluent, the spiracle joined to the pleural carina by an elevation of the tegument; 

 nervures dark brown, stigma brownish testaceous, areolet a trapezium, just ses- 

 sile; anterior coxse reddish brown and iufuscated, middle and posterior coxae 

 almost entirely black, trochanters almost entirely yellow, anterior and middle 

 femora testaceo-ferrugiiious; posterior femora ferruginous, tibise and tarsi of an- 

 terior and middle legs yellowish testaceous, partly tinted with brown, the apical 

 tarsal joint and claws of all legs brown; posterior femora ferruginous, posterior 

 tibise brownish testaceous beneath, above they are brown on basal fourth and 

 apical third between the tegument is sort of a brownish yellow, most of the tarsi 

 of posterior legs brown, pale brown at base. 



Abdomen. — Ferruginous, first segment and second segment black, except an 

 apical band united with a partial lateral band which are ferruginous, third, 

 fourth and fifth dorsal segments with a large discal blackish spot on basal two- 

 thirds; ovipositor reddish brown, covered partly by the black sheaths and pro- 

 truded for a distance that is less than the apical width of the abdomen. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality. — Galveston, Texas. 



One specimen taken in May by F. H. Snow. 



Amorpliota ferruginosa n. sp. 



Related to Limnerimn ? rivalis Cress., but can readily be distin- 

 guished by the channeled metathorax. 



9. — 5.5 mm. — Head in general form nearly as in galvestonensis, but diifers in 

 the following details: malar space distinctly shorter than the length of the scape 

 about as high as the mandible is wide near the apex, i. e. where the teeth spring 

 from the mandibles; antennae twenty-eight jointed,' flagellum brown, with the 

 first joint about as long as the scape and pedicellum together, the latter two being 

 yellow beneath, mandibles yellowish brown at apex, palpi yellowish testaceous. 



Thorax. — With the same relation to the head, in sculpture, as usual ; basal area 

 about twice as broad at base as at apex, and about twice as long as wide at apex, 

 areola nearly smooth, confluent with the transversely wrinkled petiolarea, if 

 complete the areola would be hexagonal with the sides, excepting the basal 

 transverse carina, nearly subequal, external and external median areas nearly 

 smooth and separated by a very distinct straight carina, internal area with a few 

 coarse wrinkles, the angular area lunate and not conspicuous, spiraeular and 

 middle pleural areas almost completely confluent, the spiracle united with the 

 pleural carina by a carina; anterior and middle legs almost entirely testaceous, 

 apical tarsal joints and claws of all the legs brown, posterior coxse ferruginous, 

 the trochanters, femora and tibiae of posteiior legs testaceo-ferruginous, the taisi 

 of posterior legs testaceous. 



Abdomen. — Ferruginous, petiole black, except an apical ferruginous band, basal 

 two-thirds of second segment blackish to a great extent, and a basal band on the 

 third segment black ; ovipositor prutruded for a distance equal to two-thirds the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality. — Galveston, Texas. 



One specimen taken in May, by F. H. Snow. 



