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Anomalon clavatiini n. sp. 



9 . — 20 mm. Head yellow, with vertex and occiput t)lack, and most of cheeks 

 behind eyes rufous; scape black above, yellow beneath; head large, deeply 

 sunken above antennpe; face oval, clypeus broadly rounding at tip and with only 

 a minnte central projection ; thorax piceous, almost black on sternum and behind 

 scutellums; niesonotum rather coarsely punctured, without pai-apsidal grooves, 

 but with coarse, transverse aciculations in front of scutellums; pleurje shining, 

 coarsely punctured ; scutellum flat, punctured same as mesopleurte : postscutellum 

 oval, transversely aciculate ; between postsctellum and base of secondary wings 

 the space is coarsely diagonally aciculate; metathorax coarsely reticulate and 

 traversed longitudinally by a deep narrow channel, which is transversely reticu- 

 late ; wings yellowish fuliginous, with basal half of submedian cell and all of 

 costal cell on hind wings a bright translucent yellow ; veins brown, stigma red- 

 dish, yellow at base; third discoidal cell narrowed at base; humeral cross-vein 

 of hind wing broken behind the middle, four anterior femora and trochanters 

 rufous, coxae piceous, tibise and tarsi yellow; hind legs with coxse, femora and 

 apical third of tibise black; trochanters and basal part of tibife ferruginous, tarsi 

 yellow; petiole of abdomen rufous, slender, concave above, postpetiole scarcely 

 enlarged ; second segment piceous above, compressed ; remainder of abdomen 

 clavate, segments finely punctured, black, and strongly compressed ; whole body 

 and legs pilose ; ovipositor exserted about 2 mm. 



One specimen from South Dakota (Prof. Aldrich). 



Auonialon siiiitliii u. sp. 



% . — 16 mm. Head, prothorax, tegulse and large spot beneath on mesopleurae, 

 reddish brown; mandibles, vertex and scutellum piceous; four anterior legs, 

 posterior tarsi and antennae fulvous; posterior tibise dusky rufous on basal two- 

 thirds, remainder of the body and legs black ; wings a deep fuliginous with 

 bluish reflection, nervures and stigma black ; third discoidal cell narrowed at 

 base; humeral cross-vein of hind wing broken below the middle; head shining, 

 not coarsely punctured ; clypeus rounded to the central point; anteunse long 

 'about 50 joints) ; thorax very coarsely punctured, parapsidal grooves distinct, 

 uniting some distance in front of scutellum; median lobe of mesonotum with a 

 broad, deep, central depression ; transverse aciculations in front of scutellum ; 

 scutellum and postscutellum coarsely punctured ; metathorax coarsely reticulated, 

 central depression broad and shallow ; abdomen not strongly compressed ; petiole 

 slender, considerably broadened at spiracles and then narrowed toward apex. 



One specimen from New Brunswick, N. J., and dedicated to Prof. 

 J. B. Smith for the assistance in this work that he has given me. 



AiKtinalon eloiigatiiui n. sp. 



9 % ■ — 22-24 mm. ; antennse 18 mm. and about 65-jointed. Dusky rufous, 

 vertex, occiput, all of the dorsum of pro- and niesothorax back to scutellum, 

 sternum, spot on upper posterior mesopleura, ventral, basal and apical portions 

 of metathorax, four anterior coxte beneath, hind coxse, basal trochanters, femora, 

 tibise at ajiex, dorsum of secojid abdominal segment, apex of tlie third, and all 

 of the followitig segments, black ; face, mouth-parts, .scape beneath and posterior 

 tarsi yellow: antennse long, fulvous, blackish on basal segments above: cheeks 

 I)olished, sparsely punctured above: face coarsely and closely iiunctured and with 

 <iuite deep and broad parallel grooves extending l)eneath the antenna- to the 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. OECKMHKR. 1897. 



