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clypeiis forming a broad, polished facet, the remainder of the 

 ch'peus dullish and sparsely indistinctly punctured ; pronotum with 

 faint stripe in the furro^^', elsewhere more or less sparsely punc- 

 tured, first transverse cubitus a little longer than the lower inner 

 side of the areolet or the next longest side, second transverse cubi- 

 tus a little shorter than the lower inner side, second abscissa of 

 radius : lower outer side of areolet : : 5 : -1, fore tibiae normal as in 

 Spilocryptus extrematis Cress., posterior aspect of propodeum 

 coarsely reticulate throughout ; abdomen sculptured much as in the 

 type but not so distinctly. 



Holocremnus flaviclypeus sp. nov. 



Type.— >^o. 11185, M. C. Z. 



Type-locality. — Chain Bridge, Virginia, June 14 (X. Banks). 



Male. — Length 8 mm. ; compared with the original description 

 of H. virginiensis Viereck this species differs as follows : — Head, 

 l)lack except the face below antennff-, which, including the clypeus 

 is mostly yellow, lower edge of temples yellowish, transfacial line 

 : facial line : : 36 : 33, interocellar space finely sculptured, though 

 not so finely as along the ocellocular line, lateral ocellar line slightly 

 shorter than the ocellocular line, clypeus apparently punctured 

 and gTanular, scape almost entirely yellow, pedicel yellow beneath 

 (antennae broken), pedicel nearly one-half the length of scape; 

 thorax, black except for appendages and yellowish tubercles, costa 

 stramineous, stigma and other veins, except bullffi, brownish stra- 

 mineous, stigma palest, terminal abscissa of cubitus mostly nearly 

 as pale as center of stigma, fore coxas yellow throughout as are the 

 mid coxa?, hind coxa^ l)lack at base and laterally on basal half, 

 elsewhere more or less reddish or yellowish, fore and mid femora 

 yellowish, appendages of fore and mid onychii dark brown or black- 

 ish, basal half of their claws ])ectinate, hind trochanters concolor- 

 ons yellowish, hind femora reddish, hind tibia l)rownish stramine- 

 ous except for a yellowish base, hind tarsi yellowish, with dark- 

 ened tips and darkened onj^chii, appendages of latter similar to 

 those of fore and mid legs; propodeum, basal area triangular, petio- 

 late, petiolarea transversely rugosostriate, areola mostly indefinitely 

 sculptured; abdomen, distance between first pair of spiracles more 



