42 PRELIMINARY LIST 



Tinicephalus simplex Uhl. 



Colorado (Uhler 1). Foot-hills, July (Carpenter -see Uhler. 6). Mount- 

 ains west of Denver, July and August ^Uhler, 5). 



Garland, June 30th (E. A. Schwarz). 



Pilophonis gracilifi Uhler n. sp. 



"Narrower than usual, dark piceous, or nearly black, the pronotum longer than wide, 

 and the corium distended and almost hyaline at the tip. Head depressed subconical, the 

 vertex transversely depressed, with a central carina running back to the thick carina 

 bounding the occiput behind; fa-^e convex, piceous, polished, becoming fulvous below; 

 tylus narrow, pale rufo-fulvous like the cheeks; rostrum dark honey-yellow, darker at 

 tip, reaching upon tlie middle coxae: antennae moderately long and slender, the basal 

 joint short, dull fulvous, the second a little longer than the pronotum, of the same color, 

 but darker on the gradually thickening tip, the apical joints more slender, but not ab- 

 ruptly decreasing, the two united scarcely longer than the second. Pronotum highly 

 polished, semi-cylindric, with the sides a little sinuated, almost of equal width through- 

 out, dark piceous, minutely wrinkled on the disk and behind, with the humeral angles 

 acute and the anterior ones rounded off. Scutellum depressed behind the middle, black, 

 and minutely scabrous. Hemelytra long, dark brown, sometimes al-nost black, minutely 

 pubescent, velvety, not banded, distinctly sinuated on the sides, the membrane a little 

 dusky, with a dark brown spot near the base, the inner border of apex of corium with a 

 curved callous line. Legs pale dull piceous, paler on the tibiae. Abdomen black, highly 

 polished. 



Length to end of abdomen :^.5 mm. Width of pronotum 1.25 mm. One specimen, a fe- 

 male, lacking the tarsal joints and two apical joints of the antennae, was sent to me from 

 Colorado. It lives on Pinus inops in summer, June to September, in Maryland, Virginia, 

 New Jersey: and is also found in Massachusetts. Maturely colored specimens do not 

 have the reddish clypeus and cheeks observed in the specimens from Colorado." 



Colorado Springs, August 3d (Gillette). 



Globiceps angiistata Uhler n. sp, 



"Black, highly polished, delicate, slender. Head transverse above, convex, having a 

 few remote punctures, the eyes large an I prominent, much elevated above the line of the 

 head, the face nearly vertical, with the front a little convexly prominent, the tylus mod- 

 erately narrow; rostrum very stout at base, witli the basal joint long, stout and bl.'ickish- 

 piceous, the middle testaceous and the tip piceous; antennae long, slender, dull black, 

 the basal joint longer than the head, testaceous at base, the second barely thicker at tip, 

 nearly as long as the costa and cuneus united, the third a little more slender, about half 

 as long as the second, the fourth broken off. Pronotum sub-campanulate, highly polished, 

 about twice as long as the eye; the collum contracted, narrow; the callositites very 

 large, tumid, with a groove between, which is partly occupied by a blunt carina that runs 

 back to posterior lobe; posterior lobe wide, convex, transversely wrinkled, with the 

 anterior slope high, the sides steep, oblique, and gently sinuated, the humeri a little 

 turned up and acute. Pcutellum high, almost flat above, with steeply sloping sides, acute 

 at tip. Legs pale fulvous, whitish at base, the ends of tarsi piceous. Clavus dusky, 

 corium whitish-yellow at base, dusky on the remaining two-thirds; the cuneus pale 

 yellowish, dusky at tip; membrane long and wide, pale fuliginous, white at the extreme 

 base, with the looped vein dark brown. Abdomen black, highly polished. 



Length to end of abdomen a.T5 mm. To tip of membrane 4 mm. Width of pronotum 

 .87 mm. Described from a single male specimen from Colorado. It is closely related to, if 

 not the same species as one which I found in the Province of Qubec. The female is 

 earnestly desired for study, to complete the de.scription of this species. This insect; might 

 readily be mistaken for one of the small Chalcididae which have black bodies and yeUow 

 legs." 



Steamboat Springs, July 12th (Baker). 



