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sides of the following segments, red. Wings hyaline ; stigma and 

 veins, browu ; areolet, triangular, petiolated. 



Habitat. — Kellogg, Cowley County, Kaus. 



Described from several specimens, reared from pupa of Eurycreon 

 rantalis, found on corn and sent to the Department by Mr. Jacob 

 Nixon. 



Limneria consimilis sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 6 mm . Black, subopaque, very finely, continently 

 punctate ; antennas, black ; mandibles, palpi, and tegulae, yellowish- 

 white ; legs, rufous or ferruginous; anterior coxae pale, middle and 

 posterior pairs, black ; first joint of all trochanters, black. Metathorax 

 not longer than high, distinctly areolated, the central middle area 

 hexagonal. Abdomen black; the apex of second, third, and fourth 

 segments broadly margined with rufous; the extreme margins of the 

 following segments tinged with red. Wings slightly dusky ; stigma 

 aud veins, brown ; areolet, large, triangular, petiolated. 



Habitat.— Texas. 



Described from one specimen in the Belfrage collection. 



Limneria peraffinis sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, G mm . Differs from consimilis in having the scape 

 beneath aud the first joint of anterior and middle trochanters pale, 

 and the abdomen, except the petiole and basal half of second seg- 

 ment, wholly rufous, while the areolet is large, oblique, and petiolated. 



Habitat.— Texas. 



Described from one specimen in the Belfrage collection. 



Limneria Belfragei sp. nov. 



Male. — Length, 9 ram . Closely allied to L. erythrogaster, but larger 

 and the abdomen proportionally longer. Black, densely, moderately, 

 coarsely punctate, and covered with a white pubescence ; the mandi- 

 bles, except teeth, palpi, tegulae, and anterior and middle legs, yel- 

 lowish-white ; the middle coxae black at base; posterior legs and ab- 

 domen, rufous ; hind coxae, black. Wings, hyaline ; stigma and veins, 

 brown; the costae outwardly black ; areolet large, subtriangular, pe- 

 tiolated. 



Habitat — Texas. 



Described from one specimen in the Belfrage collection. 



Limneria pterophorae sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm ; ovipositor, 0.8 mm . Black, subopaque, mi- 

 nutely, densely, coufluently punctate ; antennas black ; mandibles, 

 palpi, tegulae, anterior and middle trochanters and tarsi, yellowish- 

 white, rest of legs yellowish-red ; hind coxae, first joint of trochanters 

 and base and apex of the tibiae, black ; the middle of the tibiae and 



