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on mesopleurfe, beneath Jiind wings and on apical segments of abdomen, which 

 are scarcely punctured ; metanotum without carina; abdomen broad, depressed, 

 carinse on basal segment indicated, oblique grooves on the three following seg- 

 ments are deep and broad; wings fusco-hyaline ; veins and stigma dark brown; 

 areolet wanting ; legs slender, shining. 



One specimen from Moscow, Idaho (Prof. Aldrich). 



Glypta inipressa n. sp. 



% 9 . — 6 mm. ; ovipositor 9 mm. Black, with clypeus, lateral apical mesopleura? 

 and all of metapleurfe rufous; palpi, tegulse, line before on upper margin of pro- 

 thorax, trochanters, knees, anterior coxse, annulus on base and middle of poste- 

 rior tibite and at base of first three tarsal segments of four posterior tarsi white; 

 hind tibise and tarsi black; remainder of legs rufous; antennae slender, black, 

 brown beneath; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma brown; body punctured, 

 polished; face tuberculate, hairy; abdomen with deep impressions on segments 

 2-4, ovipositor long, slender and with very slender shields. 



%, differs in having the abdominal impressions less distinct, and in having the 

 clypeus, scape beneath and more of the four anterior legs white. 



Three specimens from Algonquin, IlL (Dr. Nason). 



meniscus subflaviis n. sp. 



% 9 • — 6 mm. ; ovipositor 4 mm. Dark yellowish red, with face, mouth-parts, 

 broad orbital lines, scape beneath, all of the thorax except mesonotnm and 

 tinge on metanotum, and nearly all of the legs, dirty lemon-yellow ; anteunte and 

 apex of posterior tibije and tarsal segments dusky ; spots enclosing ocelli blackish : 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma brown, areolet wanting, humeral 

 cross-nervure of hind wing not broken ; thorax coarsely punctured, head and 

 abdomen less so, metathorax without cariuse, no parapsidal grooves, but they are 

 indicated by yellow lines; legs slender, posterior coxae elongate. 



Two specimens from Texas (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



Pliy todietus ;?) truiicatiis n. sp. 



9 . — 2 mm. ; ovipositor .5 ram. and curved upward. Piceous, with face, mouth- 

 parts, broad orbital lines, tegulse, spot beneath. Hue in front, margins of nieso- 

 notum, legs and venter, yellow: antennae large, as long as thorax and abdomen 

 reddish brown, paler beneath ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma 

 brown, yellow at base, areolet triangular, sessile; head and thorax shagreened. 

 abdomen partially so; clypeus large, lower tooth of mandibles longer than upper; 

 no parapsidal grooves nor carinae on metathorax ; abdomen subsessile, broad 

 toward apex, where it is truncate and subcompressed. 



One specimen from Brookings, So. Dak. (Prof Aldrich). 



Cylloceria fuscolina n. sp. 



%. — 8 mm. Black, with legs beyond the trochanters rufous; antennae dark 

 rufous, paler toward apex; scape black; wings milky rufous, veins and stigma 

 rufous; head punctured, clypeus separated; face roughened beneath antennse; 

 thorax shining, punctured ; mesonotum trilobed ; metanotum carinate, roughened 

 and coarsely punctured ; basal segment of abdomen scabrous, spiracles near base ; 

 remainder of segments finely punctured. 



Two specimens from Colorado (Prof Gillette). 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. DECJ:MBEK, 1897. 



