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Fk;. 87.— Pl.vtycleis kletcheri. adult female. 



vertex as viewed from in front. Pronotum narrow, structure as des- 

 cribed under the genus. Wings narrower ))ut a?)out as long as the 

 elytra, which are apically l)roadly rounded, overlap dorsally and pro 

 ject beyond the pronotum about one-half the pronotal length. Legs 

 of moderate length and size; posterior femora more than two times as 

 thick basally as apically, the swelling confined to aliout the basal three- 

 fifths; anterior tibise un- 

 anr.ed above on the inner 

 side, on the outer side armed 

 with three spines. Abdo- 

 men and genital characters 

 as described under the genus. 

 Colordark reddish brown, 

 the posterior tarsi and the 

 sides of the vertex black and 

 the disk and the central por- 

 tions of the lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum nearl}^ black, the latter bordered below and behind 

 with yellowish. 



Measurements. — Length, pronotum, 5.25 mm.; elytra, 2.5; posterior 

 femora, 14.6; ovipositor, 14; width, pronotal disk at the posterior 

 margin, 3.75; at the anterior margin, 2.75. 



Type.—C?it. No. 10192, U. S. National Museum. 

 Specimens e.raiiuiied. — The type, one female (fig. 87), taken- by Dr. 

 James Fletcher at Calgary, Assiniboia, Canada, on July 31, 1904, and 

 by him presented to the U. S. National Museum. 



I take pleasure in naming this interesting insect in honor of its 

 illustrious collector. 



STEIROXYS Herman. 



Steiroxys Herman, Yerhandl. der k. k. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XXIV, 

 • 1874, pp. 200, 207.— ScuDDER, Can. Ent, XXVI, 1894, pp. 179, 182; Guide 



N. A. Orth., 1897, p. 56; Cat. Orth. U. S., 1900, p. 78.— Kirby, Syn. Cat. 

 Orth., IT, 1906, p. 194. 



Descrlpt'wn. — Head small, not pi'ominent, deeply inserted into the 

 pronotum; vertex moderately prominent and exceedingly broad, 

 almost as broad as the interocular space; eyes small, scarcely prominent; 

 basal segment of the antenna less than one-fourth as large as the 

 vertex as viewed from in front. Pronotum of medium size, moderatelj^ 

 produced posteriori}'; lateral lobes well developed, nearly as deep as 

 long, slightly declivent and somewhat sinuate posteriorly; lateral and 

 median carina^ distinct and persistent, the former subparallel. 

 diverging slightl}- from in front backwards (fig. 89); disk nearlj^ flat, 

 subrectangular, subtruncate both in front and behind, about two or two 

 and one times as long as broad and without conspicuous sulci, some- 



