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5796 Hoplisoides Birkmanni n. sp. 



A niiedjum sized black speoies, Avitji costal half of wingiS very ilark 

 fuscous, legs and juarkings reddisli yellow, sides of metatliorax fciruj^i 

 nous, and with thie body mostly very coarsely irregularly deeply puiu-tate, 

 the punctures more or less separated and thr interstices with more or 

 less minute puncturation. 



Female: Length 8 mm. Pubescence fine ami api.ressed tlirii'ighout. 

 Head narrower than thorax, the orbits not emiaroinate above, parallel 

 below. 



The pleurae are very coarsely sculptured. The furrow between mes" 

 and metanotum is not demarked, there being merely a broad shallow 

 depression, Init in this lies a deep smooth groove wliich is strongly bent 

 below. Po'Stsciutel coarsely longitudinally mgoso-punetate. Upper area 

 of meitanotum high, short, and rather suddenly rounded into the poste- 

 rior face, and not bounded posteriorly by furrows; its surface bears about 

 fourteen very sharp longitudinal carinae. Posterior face very coarsely 

 rugoso punctate, the rugae very pronounced near the posterior border, the 

 central fovea illy defined, the median groove very slender. The yellow 

 markings on thorax are a broad line on pronotuni, the tubercles, a long 

 mark beJow the tegulae, and the soiitel. The tegulae, narrow lines on 

 the sides of the mesonotum, and two large blotches on the metathorax 

 are ferruginous. 



Abdomen with the puncturation obsolete on the bases of the segments, 

 very coarse on the second ventral segment, and coarsely rugoRO-punctat:e 

 on the fifth dorsal and the pygidium. The pygidium is very sparsely 

 haired and broiadly rounded at the tip. 



Legs reddish yellow, the coxae and trochanters partly, and femora 

 within at base, piceous. Tibiae outwa.rdly with a number of s^niall 

 spines. Outer spines on fore tarsi greatly lengthened. Wings very 

 dark fuscous on costal half, veins dark, stigma straw colored. Second 

 cubital cell shorter than the third on the cubital nervure. Third abscissa 

 of radius considerably longer than the first two together. 



Taken at Fedor, Texas, by that indefatigable hymenopterologist the 

 Rev. G. Birkman, to whom it is dedicateil. 



5797 Hoplisoides pruinosus n. p. 



A small cornpact, black, narrowly yellowmarked species, with fuscnus 

 marked wi«gs, reddish yellow legs, and the body covered with fine 

 dense pruinose pubescence. 



Pcmale: Length 7 mm. Head distinctly narrower rhan pronotum, 

 eyes not einarginate above, and distinctly converging below. Pubescen- 

 ce of face longer a.nd silvery. Sides of face nearly smooth, and clypeus 

 with a few shallow punctures. Inner orbits broadly, face below anten- 



