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outer than on the inner side. The upper half of the metapleurae are 

 stoutly obliquely striated, the lower closely rugosely punctured; the 

 apical slope of nietanotumi closely strongly reticuhited. The abdomen 

 is much more strongly and clo<sely punctured than in the female; the 

 pygidium is strongly deepQy closely punctured, keeled down the middle 

 from the base to near the apex; the sides are more strongly keeled. 

 Wings colored as in the female except that the nervu>-es are deep bla(dc. 



o405 Paratiphia neomexicana sp. nov. 



Black, the clypeus and mandibles, except at the apex creamy white; 

 the labrum reddish, palpi fuscous; ba.se of metanotuni without any 

 ceTitra! basal area, but with two large lateral ones, T^ounded by roundly 

 curved keels; the apex in the center with two depressions, with a 

 stout keel between them, and a weaker one on the outerside, there 

 being none bounding the baSe whiich is thus open; the space between 

 the basal lateral areae and the transverse apical keel is stoutly, but 

 not closely striated; the apical slope is closely distinctly longitudinally 

 striated, the striae more or less intermixing. Propleurae strongly 

 closelv punctured above, the depres-sed centeir obliquely striated, 

 smooth above and below. Mesopleurae, as usual, strongly punctured. 

 Metapleurae strongly, more or less obliquely striated, except on the 

 lower basal part, which is aciculated and has only weak indications 

 of striae; the striae above are weaker and more irregular than they 

 are below; they also intermix at the apex. The fringe on the abdominal 

 segments is fulvous or pale golden; the pygidium is strongly deeply 

 punctured, with a broad Oipaque smooth band down the center of the 

 apical slope. Wings clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures black; the 

 apex of the radial ce.llule wider than usual, the radius broadly rounded; 

 the third transverse cubital nervure obliquely sloped, slightly rounded 

 outwardly below. Male. Length 8 mm. Santa Fe, New Mexico (Oslar). 

 Characteristic of this species is the absence of the usual well defined 

 central areae on the base of the metanotum. 



.1417 Paratiphia ormsbyensis sp. nov. 



Black, the .-dypeus and uumdibles, except the teeth, clear white; the 

 two central areae on the base of the metanotum of equal width, longer 

 than wide though not much so; the pygidium shining, strongly punctur- 

 ed, the punctures large, irregular, deep; there is :, smooth space at 

 the base in the middle which is small and triangular, and from it an 

 in:listinct suu.oth narrow line runs to the apex; wings clear hyaline, 

 the sti-ma and nervures black, the former not so deeply black as the 

 latter; the first abscissa of radius slightly shorter than the second; 

 the apex rounded but with a slight rounded angle below. Male. Length 

 7 mm. Ormsby county, Nevada. July (Baker). 



