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IIoI'I.OTEI.EIA FI.OIUDANA. 



Hitritcoiuis Jl()ri(hnius, Asliinead, Km. Am., iii, ]>. Ils. 



Ilttliloteleia jfloriilaiin, As^lmicad, Monog. N. A. Proc, p. L'2S, pi. x., fip. 1, $ . 



Ono 9 taken ut Hull, 2Gth Augu.st, 1894. The fifth and sixth seg- 

 ments of abdomen are coarsely punctured, the sixth truncate or semi- 

 cireularly emarginatc, Avilh short hitei-al teotli ; tarsi dark, tho hinder 

 ones bhick. 



IIadhoxotis ni{i:viri:NXis, sp. nor. 



Ç. — Length 1-1 "2 mm. Iliad and tlioiax black, coarsely punctate, .sub- 

 opaque. Head transverse, wider than thorax; lateral ocelli near eyes, which arc 

 large and not visibly pubescent ; face closely punctured, but more shining than 

 vertex; above the antenna' there is a polished deja-ession, with an acute central 

 carina; the cheeks very closely punctulate, with delicate stria^ near mouth ; man- 

 dibles rufous. Antenme with scape pale, funicle variable and club black ; pedicel 

 as long as joints one and two of funicle ; first funicular slightly longer than thick, 

 second and third subequal, rounded, fourth minute and transverse ; club compact, 

 six-jointed, the hi'st small, remainder transvei-se, broad, the terminal joint conical, 

 as long as two preceding. Thorax without indications of mesonotal furrows, finely 

 pubescent ; scutellum semi-circular, uietathorax short, angles not prominent ; legs, 

 including coxje, uniforndy yellowish. Wings usually abbreviated ; only one 9 

 has wings reaching tip of abdomen, in two or three they reach almost to tip of second 

 segment, but in all the other specimens they extend only to, or but little beyond, 

 the tip of first segment. Abdomen ovoid, polished, with sparse, rather long 

 pubescence ; first and second segments faintly striate ; the second segment is 

 longer than first and as long as all the following ; first two yellow, remainder 

 more or less brown or black. 



$ , — Resembles 9 i" coloration, but is somewhat more shining, and the wings 

 are fully developed, extending well beyond abdomen, hyaline and subpubescent, 

 marginal vein thickened, half as long as the oblique stigmal, postmarginal long. 

 The antenna? are filiform, rather short and pubescent ; scapo pale, pedicel slightly 

 longer than thick, firet fiagellar joint as large as pedicel, second nearly as long and 

 slightly compressed, third larger, somewhat swollen and angulated, four to nine 

 subequal, one-third longer than thick, la.st joint elongate, acuminate, as long as 

 the first. 



Described from fifteen 9 9 and two S $ taken in the neighbourhood 

 of Hull in August and September. 



SpARASION PACIFICUM. 



Spurasion pncifimm, Ashmead, Monog. N. A. Proc, p. 2.3;i. 

 One 9 and five S S of this interesting form were collected for me by 

 Mr. C. DeBlois Green, of Osoyoos, Okanagan Valley, B. C. 



SCELIO OVIVOIU'S. 



Caloptenobia ovirora, Riley, First Rep. U. S. Ent. Connu., p. .'.of}. 



Scelio famdicus, Riley, nee. Say, Second Rep. U. S. Ent. Connu., p. 270. 



Scelio outroru» (Riley), Ashmead, Ent. Am., iii, p. 11!»; Monotr. N. A. Proc, 



p. 243. 

 One <? taken on 15th August, 1897, at Hull, Que. 



