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stramineous, tubercles and tegulas yellowish as is the disk of the upper 

 division of the mesepisternum, disk of scutel brownish as is the disk 

 of the metanotum (postscutel), rest of thorax mostly black or black- 

 ish; propodeum black, the areola poorly or not at all satisfactorily 

 defined, virtually confluent with the basal area and petiolarea, apical 

 transverse carina well developed on each side of the median longi- 

 tudinal carinas, lateral carinas virtually wanting, median longitudinal 

 carinas wanting or poorly defined where they bound the basal area; 

 wings transparent tinted with brown, veins and stigma mostly dark 

 brown, legs mostly stramineous, hind tibias with most of apical third 

 blackish, hind tarsi mostly fuscous, fore and mid-coxas and all tro- 

 chanters more or less yellowish; abdomen shining; basal tergite 

 granular, blackish except for the apical fifth which is mostly stramine- 

 ous with two longitudinal carinas; second tergal segment granular, 

 with the apical two-fifths mostly stramineous as are the thyridia, 

 remaining tergal segments smoother than the preceding, although 

 more or less similarly colored, ovipositor not exserted. 



Male. — Similar except for the thorax, which is almost entirely 

 black and in the better developed carinas of propodeum and first 

 tergal segment. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13504, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality . — Tallulah, Louisiana. 



Received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology, under Hunter No. 1936, II, 14, 8-10-10, 7-12-10. Par. 

 Caliroa amygdalina, R. A. Cushman, collector; additional data on 

 specimens bearing the same number and locality are II, 10, 5-17-10, 

 4-16-10; II, 17, 9-4-10, 8-12-10, 9-7-10, 8-12-10. 



Genus CAMPOLETIS Foerster 

 Type. — Limncrium (Campoletis) prodenise, new species. 



LIMNERIUM (CAMPOLETIS) PRODENLE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 5 mm. Black, covered with silvery pubescence 

 that obscures the tegument only on the face and there only when 

 viewed in certain lights ; cheeks in the middle hardly more than half 

 as wide as the eye as seen from the side, malar line a little shorter 

 than the mandibles are wide at base, clypeus depressed along the 

 anterior margin which is smooth and polished in the middle where it 

 is produced into a kind of lip approaching in character the anterior 

 edge in Sagarites, lateral suture between clypeus and face appearing 

 distinct owing to the apparent reflection of the lateral edge of the 

 clypeus, scape partly brownish in front, rest of antennas black or 

 blackish, mandibles yellowish except apically where they are as 

 usual more or less castaneous to blackish, palpi yellowish; inner edge 

 of eyes slightly, shallowly impressed above the middle, greatest 

 diameter of lateral ocellus hardly more than half as long as the ocel- 



