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rated from the face by a distinct suture, the anterior margin 

 slightly arcuate, with a triangular emargination or incision on 

 either side; antennae filiform, the scape clavate; ocelli normal, 

 arranged in a triangle; occiput with a transverse furrow between 

 the raised occipital margin and the base of vertex; metathorax 

 fully as long as the mesonotum with a delicate median carina; 

 tibial spurs long, i, i, 2; iibiae with a few black spines; anterior 

 tarsi in 9 combed. 



Type Miscophinus laticeps. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 

 Black. 



Head not twice as wide as the thorax 2. 



Head twice as wide as the thorax. 

 Scape, pedicel, tegulse and legs rufous 9 • • • ■ (i)H. laticeps. 

 2. Abdomen black, the extreme apex of the second segment testaceous, 

 ventral segments with a row of sparse, stiff black hairs at apical 

 margins ; all coxae and femora above black, trochanters and 

 rest of legs, and the scape, rufous . . . (2) H. californicus. 

 Abdomen mostly rufous, the two or three terminal segments obfus- 

 cated or blackish ; legs, scape, pedicel, clypeus, mandibles, 

 tegulse, ferruginous; prothorax brownish . . (3) H. texanus. 



(1) Miscophinus laticeps n. sp. $.— Length 5 mm. Black, closely finely 

 punctate, opaque; face, sides of collar and the meso- and metapleura sil- 

 very sericeous; clypeus, mandibles, except tips and legs, rufous; tegulae 

 and palpi paler; wings hyaline, the apical third fuscous. The head is 

 unusually wide, twice as wide as the thorax; pronotum fully as long as 

 the mesonotum; posterior face of metathorax transversely striate, with a 

 median sulcus ; tibiae with some sparse black spines, their spurs long, 

 black ; anterior tibiae with a sparse comb; transverse median nervure in 

 front wings joins the median vein a little before the origin of the basal 

 nervure; the marginal cell is only about two-thirds the length of the first 

 submarginal, triangular petiolate, the petiole being as long as either side 

 of the cell. 



Hab. — Sacramento Co., Cal. Taken in July by A. Koebele. 

 Type No. 5018, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



(2) Miscophinus californicus n. sp. J 1 .— Length 4 mm. Structurally, 

 resembles the former species, except the head is not nearly so wide; the 

 silvery pubescence is denser on the face, on the lower part of the meso- 

 pleura and on the front coxae; the first, second and third dorsal abdominal 

 segments laterally at apex also show more or less of the silvery pubes- 

 cence; scape, mandibles, except tips, and tegulae ferruginous ; all coxae 

 and femora above black, trochanters and rest of legs rufous or ferruginous; 



