I/O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'l8 



dots, the surface rugoso-punctate, not polished; mandibles rulescent; 

 labrum black, polished and shining: facial quadrangle about as broad 

 as long; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath, reaching as far as base 

 of wings ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, finely punctured ; base 

 of metathorax rugulose, dull, with feeble plicae; tubercles faintly red- 

 dish or wholly black; tegulae rufotestaceous ; wings hyaline, very 

 faintly dusky apically ; nervures and the large stigma ferruginous; b. n. 

 falling a little short of t. m. ; knees pale yellowish; anterior tibiae in 

 front, and their tarsi, light reddish ; the other tarsi whitish on outer 

 side and light ferruginous on inner; abdomen shining, finely punctured, 

 without hair-bands. Claws cleft; hairs on hind tibiae delicately plu- 

 mose. 



Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bnincr, 40 and 72.) United 

 States National Museum. This is separated from its nearest 

 relatives as follows, the table based on males : 



Legs black i. 



Legs partly yellow or pale reddish 2. 



1. Clypeus yellow saltensis Friese. 



Clypeus white aeneiventris Friese. 



2. Tubercles yellow, wings dark steinbachi Friese. 



Tubercles not yellow, wings clear .vagabundus Ckll. 



In Meadow A'alley, northern ^Mexico, Prof. C. H. T. Town- 

 send took three species of Pamtrgi)iiis. One is the Rocky 

 Movmtain P. bakeri Ckll.. while the other two are new. 



Panurginus nitescens sp. n. 



2 . — Length a little over 7 mm. ; shining black, with scanty pale hair ; 

 eyes obscure green; clypeus polished, with large distinctly separated 

 punctures, and a faintly indicated median groove; antennae black; an 

 impunctate area on each side of the ocelli ; mesothorax polished, with 

 distinct but widely scattered punctures ; area of metathorax rugosopli- 

 cate, with a prominent smooth shining rim ; tegulae dark, with a large 

 reddish spot ; wings clear, nervures and stigma dull rather pale red- 

 dish ; legs black, with pale hair; spurs ferruginous; abdomen shining, 

 hind margins of segments 2 to 4 broadly reddish. 



Meadow A'alley. iNIexico (Townscnd). United States Na- 

 tional ^Museum. This species is best distinguished by com- 

 parison with several others which it greatly resembles, as 

 follows : 

 Middle of flagellum bright rufous beneath; wings brownish, 



perlaevis Ckll. 

 Flagellum not thus marked; wings clear, or (piercci) slightly dusky., i. 



