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Lithobiocerus vagabundus n. sp. 



Front of head and antennae reddish testaceous, the flagelUmi above 

 infuscate toward the apex ; rest of head black, thorax and legs yellowish 

 testaceous, abdomen black, the margins of the tergites, apical tergite, 

 and the margins of the sternites broadly reddish testaceous. 



Impunctate and without visible sculpture, the entire body including 

 the eyes, antennae and legs covered with fine rather close short pile. 



Length 3.5 mm. 



Described from one $ collected on the veranda of a hon&e 

 beneath which some mixed feed had been stored in Kainniki, 

 Honolnln, Dec, 23, 191G. Type in the author's collection. 



Undoubtedly an immigrant, possibly from the Orient, v;here 

 some of its allies are found. Whether it is in any way related 

 to the winged male imperfectly described generically by Ash- 

 mead as Prohetliylus 8chivarzi w^ill require investigation. It is 

 to be hoped that this form, one of but two S 's linown in the 

 subfamily, will be described by one of the hymenopierists who 

 have access to Ashmead's material. 



10. Cleptes fkom the Pacific Coast. 



The genus Cleptes has been variously referred to the Chrysi- 

 didae and the Bethylidae and to a family of its own related 

 to the two. Certainly it seems more similar to Bethylidae 

 than to the Chrysididae, differing from them largely by the 

 greater development of the true metanotum and the reduction 

 of the apical segments. On the other hand they are about as 

 far removed from the true Chrysididae in the development of 

 the metathorax and the abdominal segments as thev are from 

 Bethylidae. 



The habits of none of our North American species have 

 been observed. The European species so far as kno^vn attack 

 the larvae of saw flies after they have coccooned. 



Cleptes aliena Patton. 



One $ collected June 8, 1910, Josephine Co., Oregon (F. 

 \Y. Xunenmacher). 



