222 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



Seelio striaticoliis Brues, sp. nov. 



"Female. — Length 3-4 mm. — Black, except the legs (exclusive of the coxae) and 

 antennal scape which are rufous; clothed with sparse glistening pubescence. 

 Head nearly three times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly ; rather shining 

 above; almost smooth on the vertex; front longitudinally rugose, with a few 

 large punctures. Face with oblique strife on each side which meet above on the 

 median line and fade out below near the base of the antenna. Antennal scape 

 stout, rufous, flagellum dark brown. Pedicel nearly twice as long as the first 

 flagellar joint ; second flagellar joint quadrate, the following transverse; club 

 stout, as usual. Cheeks smooth, mandibles brownish basally. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum longitudinally striate, smoother laterally, the parapsidal furrows well 

 marked, except at the extreme front margin. Metanotum finely sculptured, 

 slightly longitudinally rugose, its lateral angles not evident. Petiole twice as 

 wide as long; third segment one and one-half times as long as the second. Ab- 

 domen above finely striate; more coarsely so on the petiole. Legs rufous, coxff 

 brownish black. Wings with a brownish cast, the submarginal nervure scarcely 

 discernible; stigma very faint, without any indication of a stigmal vein." 



"Two specimeus; Galveston, Texas, May, 1904, F. H. Snow. 

 No. 1323." 



"Tills species conies closest to S. cedipodcn Ashm., from which it is 

 distinguished by the striated sculpture of the head and thorax." 



VESPOIDEA. 



MUTILLID^. 



.Hutilla creusa Cress. 



Female, Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



jfliitilla oajaca Blake. 



Male, Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



Uliitilla promelhea Blake. 



Male, Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



Mutilla diibitata Sm. 



Female, Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



SCOLIID^. 

 Elis qiiadrigiittata Fabr. 



Female, Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



MYZINIDJE. 

 Plesia sexcincta Fabr. 



Two 9 , S , Galveston, May (F. H. Snow). 



