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7. MACROPHYA NIGRA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 9 mm.; expanse, 20 mm.; robust, not very elon- 

 gate; head and thorax coarsely and densely punctured, opaque; cly- 

 peus large, not very deeply emarginate, lobes somewhat pointed; 

 antenna? nearly filiform, slightly tapering toward tip; joint 3 nearly 

 twice as long as 4, 4 and 5 subequal; sheath narrow, not elongate; 

 claws bifid. Color, dull black ; spot on base of mandibles and large 

 oval spot on posterior coxtr, white; anterior tibiae pallid on front face; 

 red annulus covering basal half of posterior femora not quite reaching 

 base; wings hyaline, veins and stigma dark brown. 



Type.—lSo. 3822, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one specimen. (Gifu), (No. 176). 



8. MACROPHYA FEMORATA, new species. 



Male. — Length, 8 mm.; expanse, 17 mm.; rather slender; head and 

 thorax coarsely punctured, opaque; antenmne rather stout, not longer 

 than head and thorax, filiform; clypeus scarcely emarginate, almost 

 truncate, anterior angles rather squarely produced; joint 3 much longer 

 than 4, 4 and 5 subequal; claws minutely notched at extreme tip, rays 

 scarcely divaricating, equal. Color, black ; base of mandibles and apex 

 of clypeus, white; lower face of anterior and middle legs, whitish; red 

 annulus, more or less obscured with black, covering middle third of 

 posterior femora; wings, hyaline; veins, brown. 



Type.— 'So. 3823, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two specimens. (Gifu), (17c). 



9. CIMBEX NOMURiE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 22 mm.; expanse, 50 mm. ; robust; head and tho 

 rax, and to a less extent, the abdomen, clothed with dense yelloAvish 

 pubescence; clypeus twice as long as broad at middle, somewhat trian- 

 gular, truncate and slightly emarginate at tip; labrum very minute; 

 antenn* with six distinct joints, the last one of which forms the 

 beginning of the club, which has three more or less distinct annula- 

 tions, the basal one of which is more distinct than the others; claws 

 with very minute inner tooth extending almost parallel to inner edge 

 of claw; hind femora simple; sheath inflated broad, regularly rounded 

 at tip; second recurrent interstitial with second cubital vein. Color, 

 yellowish ferruginous and brown ; head, except spot about ocelli and 

 suture surrounding clypeus, pronotum, pleura, scutellum, basal plates, 

 and abdomen for most part yellowish ferruginous; legs, except femora, 

 of the general body color, but, together with the abdomen, somewhat 

 darker than the light areas of the head and thorax; pectus and lower 

 faces of coxfe and femora, spot about ocelli and band about clypeus, 

 apex of third joint of antenna and the subsequent joints, mesouotum, 

 metanotum, except as indicated, and spot or band on base of the four 

 basal segments of abdomen, dark brown, almost black ; wings strongly 



