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discal area is obcordate, the long area of the oblique, posterior face being 

 concave and transversely lined or coarsely transversely aciculated. 



Abdomen about one-third longer than the head and thorax together, 

 shaped as iu P. ater Cr.;' in the female highly polished with a few scat- 

 tered punctures on the second and third segments, the apex of petiole 

 smooth aud the segments apically narrowly margined with red; in the 

 male all the segments are punctulate and covered with a fuscous pu- 

 besence, the base of the second and third segments red, and the apical 

 margin of all the segments, except the petiole, more broadly margined 

 with red thau in the female, the two terminal segments being entirely 

 black; in this sex the posterior cox;e and first joint of the trochanters 

 are black, the anterior and middle pairs being dusky. Wiugs hyaline, 

 pubescent, iridescent; stigma aud veins piceo-black. 



Habitat. — New Hampshire. 



Described from two specimens, one male, one female, received from 

 Mrs. Mary Treat, reared in August, 1880, from Gelechia solidaginis Riley. 



Phasogenes missouriensis sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 5 mm . Black, polished, the head aud thorax with a 

 few small, scattered punctures; clypeus, mandibles, palpi, antennae 

 (dusky toward apex), and legs, ferruginous. The antennae are short, 

 stout, involuted at tips. Collar at sides and pleurae with raised lines; 

 metathorax distinctly areolated, the areas rugose, posterior face cou- 

 cave, transversely lined. Abdomen longer thau head aud thorax 

 together, smooth, polished, except the apex of petiole, which shows 

 some short, grooved lines, and the second segment, which has some 

 minute, scattered punctures; the base, apex and sides of second seg- 

 ment, the posterior lateral corners, and apical margin of third, aud 

 the extreme apical edges of the following segments, ferruginous; tip 

 of ovipositor exposed. Wiugs hyaline; stigma and veins brown; 

 areolet pentagonal, the upper side the shortest, the others about equal. 



Habitat. — Missouri. 



Described from a single female iu Riley collection. 



Phaeogenes hemiteloides sp. uov. 



Female. — Length, 3.2 mm . Black, polished, the head aud thorax with 

 a few scattered punctures. Anteunte ferruginous, gradually becoming 

 dusky toward apex, the flagellum beneath much paler ; clypeus, man- 

 dibles, palpi aud legs, pale ferruginous, the posterior coxae being dusky 

 basally. Collar, metathorax and sculpture, as in P. missouriensis. 

 Abdomen polished, black, apical margins of second and third seg- 

 ments narrowly, and the extreme apical edges of the following seg- 

 ments, reddish-yellow, the petiole microscopically shagreened, the sec- 

 ond segment with a few minute puuctures, scattered over the polished 

 surface. Wiugs hyaline; stigma and veins pale brown, areolet com- 

 plete, the submediau cell a little louger thau the median. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



