220 EDWARD NORTON. 



10. S. rufescens. 



AUantus rufescens, Norton, Bost. Jour. vii. 245, 19. 5 ; 



Strongylogaster rufescens, Worton. Bost. Proc. ix. 120. 

 Black; vertex and thorax, antennse, orbits, abdomen and legs, dark rufous; 

 mouth, collar and scutel, yellow. Length 0.40. Br. wings 0.80 inch. 



9- — Dull; head wide and slightly roughened at apex; antennae 

 dark rufous, rather stout, the two basal joints red; vertex black from 

 back of head to clyj^eus ; upper half of orbits rufous ; a spot between 

 and beneath antennae, lower half of orbits and mouth, yellow; clypeus 

 produced, incurved, thorax black; edge of collar, scutellum and a spot 

 on pleura at base of coxse. yellow; middle of pleura indistinctly rufous ; 

 abdomen and legs dark rufous ; anterior coxas at base, posterior coxae, 

 trochanters, femora, tips of tibiae above and tips of intermediate femora 

 black ; tarsi pale reddish-yellow , wings smoky in middle, stigma, costa 

 and tegulae piceous. 



Maine, (Harris Coll.). One 9 . 



11. Strongylogaster longulus, n. sp. 



Black; tegulje and anterior angle whitish ; abdomen rufous; wings hyaline. 

 Length 0..32— ..''.a. Br. wings 0.64— .08 inch. 



9. — Black; abdomen slender, much lengthened; antennae short, 

 rather stout, flattened, setaceous, third joint hardly longer than fourth; 

 head and pleura coarsely pitted; channels at sides of ocelli not reach- 

 ing back of head ; labrum retracted, rufous ; thorax black ; tegulse and 

 anterior angle, whitish; abdomen rufous, a black baud on first and 

 second segments of tergum ; legs waxen-yellow ; base of coxae black ; 

 wings hyaline, faintly clouded at apex, nervures piceous, apical half of 

 stigma and costa beyond, pale ; under wings with two middle cells. 



Var. — x\bdomen black, with a large reddish-yellow spot on the sec- 

 ond, third and fourth segments above and beneath. 



Norway, Me., (Cambr. Mus. S. I. Smith's Coll.); Brunswick, Me. 

 (A. S. Packard, Jr.) ; Mass., (Coll. Amer. Ent. Soc.). Three 9 . 



12. Strongylogaster distans, n. sp. 



Black, teguloe and anterior angle whitish, abdomen rufous, black banded. 

 Length 0..32. Br. wings 0.64 inch. 



9. — Black; antennae, head and thorax as in *V. hngidns ; palpi 

 whitish; abdomen testaceous, tip of each segment pale; the basal half 

 of each segment black, venter almost brown ; legs dirty white; coxae 

 black, except at tips ; base of all the femora and apical half of poste- 

 rior tibiae, with their tarsi black -brown ; wings smoky-hyaline, nervu- 

 res yellowish ; second recurrent nervure received near base of third 

 sub-marginal cell. 



California, (Cambr. 3Ius. Coll. by A. Agassiz, Jr.). Two specimens. 



