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tiuctly areolated, the central median area open behind. Abdomen, 

 except the red apical margin of second segment, black. Wings hya- 

 line, iridescent ; stigma and veins brown ; areolet petiolate. In the 

 male the middle and posterior coxae are black. 



Habitat. — Kirkwood, Mo. 



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

 Miss Mary Murtfeldt, reared from Oelechia celtisella, August 19, 1884. 



Limneria solenobiae sp. hot. 



Male. — Length,. 4.4 ram . Black, subopaque, densely, finely, continently 

 punctate; antennas broken off at base; palpi, mandibles, tegulae, an- 

 terior and middle legs, including coxae, yellowish-white ; hind legs, 

 yellow-ferruginous, the coxae black. Metathorax sloping off behind, 

 areolated, the small area just back of the postscutelluni triangular, the 

 central middle area wanting. Abdomen black ; the apical margin of 

 the second and the third segments and oblique spots on sides of the 

 fourth and the fifth, red. Wings hyaline, iridescent, almost devoid of 

 pubescence ; stigma brown ; veins pale yellowish ; areolet oblique, 

 petiolated. 



Habitat. — Kirkwood, Mo. 



Described from one specimen, received from Miss Mary Murtfeldt 

 reared from Solenobia walshella, July 27, 1887. 



Linineria euuree sp. nov. 



Male and female. — Length, 4 mm . Black, subopaque, closely, finely 

 punctate ; scape and second antenual joint beneath, clypeus, mandi- 

 bles, palpi, tegulae, and legs, yellow-ferruginous; hind cox?e black; the 

 tips of hind tarsal joints black. Metathorax areolated, the areas not 

 as distinct as usual. Abdomen rufous, the petiole basal, two-thirds of 

 secoud segment and a blotch at base of third, black ; ovipositor mod- 

 erately long, curving upwards. Wings hyaline ; stigma and veins pice- 

 ous ; areolet oblique, petiolate. The male has black blotches at the base 

 of all the abdominal segments. 



Habitat.— Pareah, Utah. 



Described from four specimens, reared April 1G, 1881, from a saw-fly, 

 Euura sp., found on willow. 



(?) Limneria sessilis sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 8 mm . Black ; head and thorax rather coarsely, con- 

 fluently punctate ; two basal joints of antenuae beneath, mandibles, 

 palpi, tegulae, and anterior and middle legs, yellowish; the anterior and 

 middle coxae black at base; the posterior pair wholly black ; posterior 

 legs rufous ; the trochanters, a ring at base of tibiae, and the tibial spurs 

 yellowish ; the tibiae and tarsi more or less obfuscated. Metathorax 

 sloping behind, produced slightly at apex, covered with white pubes- 

 cence but not areolated, and with oval spiracles. Abdomen rufous; 

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