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Genus RHOPALUM Kirby. 

 RHOPALUM ALBOCOLLARE. new species. 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm. Black and shining, impunetate, the pro- 

 notum above, the scutelkim, the apex of the postseuteUum, the middle 

 tarsi, and a broad annulus at l)a.se of the hind tarsi, snow-white; scape 

 honey-yellow; flagelliim filiform, black; eyes large, strongl}^ conver- 

 gent anteriorly; metathorax smooth, with a median grooved line 

 which is strongly impressed on the truncature. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma and veins blackish, the recurrent nervure received by the first 

 cubital cell a little before its middle. Abdomen clavate, longh^ petio- 

 lated, the petiole highly polished and shining; clavate full}" two- 

 thirds as long as the body of the abdomen. 



Tijpe.-Q^L No. 7095, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. Described from a single specimen taken by Father Stanton 

 in ttie Observatory. Garden, at Manila. 



Family XIX. FAPvRID.E. 



Snbfainily I. L^RRIIN'^^. 



Genus NOTOGONIA Costa. 



NOTOGONIA MANILiE, new species. 



Female. — Length 6.5 nmi. Entirely black, pruinose, the pubes- 

 cence on the face, clypeus, and temples denser and silvery-white, that 

 on the pygidium tinged with ferruginous; head and thorax tinely 

 minutely punctured, the scutellum smoother, polished, the metathorax 

 finel}^ rugulose, subopaque, the abdomen polished, shining, the pubes- 

 cence a little denser and more distinctly silvery at apex of first, second, 

 and third dorsal segments, especial h' lateral!}". Wings hyaline, the 

 front wings faintly fuscous at the apical margins, the stigma and 

 veins brown-black. Antenna? 12-jointed; the Hagellum is filiform, 

 the joints subequal in length, the first being nearly twice as long 

 as the pedicel. The tarsi are spinous and much longer than their 

 tibia?; the joints 3 and -i of front and middle tarsi are short and 

 united scarcely longer than the fifth or last joint; the fourth joint of 

 the hind tarsi is much shorter than the third, the last joint being 

 about as long as the third. 



Male. — Length 5 to 5.5 mm. Hardly distinguishable from the 

 female except in l)eing smaller and by the structure of the antenna? 

 and abdomen. The antennse are 13-jointed, the first joint of the fiagel- 

 lum being nearly thrice as long as the pedicel, which is shorter than 

 in the female, while the terminal al)dominal segment is without a 

 pygidial area. 

 ^ Type.-^^. No. Tl)!H), r.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father W. A. Stanton.) 



