312 HYMENOPTERA. 



except the two basal segments ; the claws femiginous : otherwise 

 as in the other sex. 



Hab. United States. 



10. Melissodes Pennsylvanica. 



Macrocera Pennsylvanica, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 97. 9 g . 

 Hab. Pennsylvania. 



11. Melissodes Philadelphica. 



Macrocera Philadeli)hica, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 110. 24 (? . 

 Hab. Pennsylvania. 



12. Melissodes Americana. 



Macrocera Americana, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 92. 4 (? . 

 Hab. Carolina. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



13. Melissodes dentiventris. B.M. 



Male. Length 5| lines. — Black, the clypeus, and mandibles 

 at their apex yellow ; the flagellum, except the two basal joints, 

 fulvous beneath, and fuscous above ; the pubescence on the head, 

 thorax and legs fulvous; the wings subhyaline, their nervures 

 ferruginous ; the legs dark rufo-testaceous, the apical joints of 

 the tarsi ferruginous; the base of the abdomen clothed with 

 fulvous pubescence, the second segment has a narrow band of 

 short pubescence of the same colour, and on each side about the 

 middle a short line of the same ; the remaining segments have a 

 scattered black pubescence with which their sides are fi-inged ; 

 beneath, the pubescence is black; at the extreme lateral mai'gins 

 of the fifth and sixth segments is a minute tooth or spine, the 

 apical segment above rufo-testaceous. 



Hab. Georgia. 



14. Melissodes manipularis. B.M. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. — Black, the clypeus and tips of the 

 mandibles yellow, the flagellum, except the two basal joints, 

 fulvous beneath, and fuscous above ; the face clothed v\dth white 

 pubescence, on the vertex it is pale fulvous, as it is also on the 

 disk of the thorax ; beneath, and on the sides it is paler, as well 

 as that which clothes the metathorax ; the legs rufo-testaceous, 

 the apical joints of the tarsi pale testaceous, the claws ferrugi- 

 nous ; the wings hyaline, the nervures and tegulse ferruginous. 

 Abdomen, the base thinly clothed with pale pubescence; the 

 second segment has a baud of cinereous pubescence at its basal 



