from the Meailla Valley^ New Mexico. 401 



the end, flagellum not so stout proportionately as in A. pro- 

 ducta, last joint coming to a curved point, all the joints flat- 

 tened. Cheeks and occiput quite liairy, occipital hairs 

 greyish. Dorsum of thorax with erect, rather thin grey 

 pubescence; mesothorax and scutellum shining, strongly 

 punctured. Metathorax sraootli and shining at base; pleura 

 with long white hairs. Legs black, with white hairs. Claws 

 rufous, with black tips, which are bifid, the inner denticle 

 being shortest, Tegulse shining piceous ; extreme base of 

 wings rufescent. Wings hyaline, marginal cell and outer 

 margin broadly smoky. Nervures and stigma piceous, 

 second submarginal cell very long. Marginal cell more 

 pointed than in A. producta. Abdomen strongly punctured, 

 black, with thin greyish-white pubescence, hind margins of 

 segments with narrow continuous white hair-bands. Hind 

 margin of fifth ventral segment excavated roundly, with a 

 broad conspicuous brush of appressed tawny hairs. Tip ot 

 abdomen strongly tridentate, the teeth widely separated, the 

 middle one longest and narrowest, the lateral ones obliquely 

 truncate. The lateral teeth are much more developed than in 

 A. producta. 



Hah. Close to the Agricultural College, Mesilla Valley, 

 N. M., on Biscutella Wislizenn, April 20, 1896 (Prof. E. 0. 

 Wooton). 



A ver}- distinct species, much larger than A. producta, 

 which it most nearly resembles in the apex of the abdomen. 



ChrysididBB. 

 Chrysis higelovice, sp. n. 



Length about 5 millim. 



Deep blue, with green reflections ; occiput, anterior margin 

 of mesothorax, postscutellum, metathorax, and margins of 

 abdominal segments more or less purple. Punctures large 

 and close, somewhat smaller on abdomen than on thorax. 

 Basin of face minutely punctured ; sides of face and a trans- 

 verse patch above the antennee with glittering white pubes- 

 cence. A transverse carina on front, somewhat angled in the 

 middle. No tubercles on vertex. Scape and f unicle green ; 

 flagellum piceous, the first three joints white beneath, with 

 short silvery pubescence. Parapsidal grooves strongly 

 curved. Lateral tooth of metathorax long. Tegulge with an 

 elongate white patch. Wings hyaline, nervures piceous. 

 Knees, bases of tibiee, and tarsi more or less white, nearly 

 the basal half of hind tibiae white, terminal joints of tarsi 



