nS BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Anoxus Chitteudenii, sp. nov. 

 (PL IV, Fig. 6,,?.) 



S . Length, 1.5""". Black, shiniug, impunctured, except the pleura 

 and metathorax. The head is very slightly longer than wide, with a 

 prominent clypeal carina. Mandibles short, black or i)iceous, the outer 

 tooth conic acute. Eyes oval, slightly hairy, Antennje 12-jointed, 

 piceous, extending beyond the base of the metathorax, sparsely covered 

 with white hairs; the scape is about the length of the eye or twice 

 as long as the pedicel ; the first flagellar joint is slightly smaller than 

 the second; remaining joints very slightly larger, the last the longest, 

 fusiform. Prothorax as long as the niesonotum and scutellum together, 

 rounded before; niesonotum broader tlian long with a slight impressed 

 scapular line near the teguLe; scutellum small, rounded posteriorly, 

 with an impressed line at base; mesopleura with a small round fovea 

 on the disk ; metathorax quadrate, truncate behind and a little con- 

 tracted at sides towards the insertion of hind wings, the angles slightly 

 rounded, the dorsum closely punctulate. Wings hyaline, fringed, the 

 venation pale, the anal nervure in consequence almost obliterated. 

 Legs piceous black, the tarsi white. Abdomen shorter than the thorax, 

 depressed, black, smooth, and shining. 



Habitat. — Ithaca, New York. , 



Types in National Iluseum and Ooll. Ashmead. 



Described from 3 specimens, received from ]Mr. F. II. Chittcn<len, 

 antl in honor of Avhom the sjiecies is named. Mr. Chittenden informs 

 me he reared them from a coleopteron, Vin sp. 



Anozus laevis, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 2.2"'"'. Polished black, impunctured. Head a little 

 longer than wide; ocelli subobsolete, partially hidden; eyes large, ob- 

 long-oval, with a wide space betwi'en them and the mandibles, the 

 cheeks separated from the Itu^e by a grooved line. Antennse 12-jointed, 

 twice the length of the head, i>iceous; scape davate, about one third 

 the length of the head, pedicel larger than the first flagellar joint; re- 

 maining joints, except the last, submoniliform, the last twice as long- 

 as the penultimati'. Prothorax long, narrowed in front, about four 

 times as long as the niesonotum; scutellum with 2 obli«iue fovese 

 at base; metathorax much longer than wide, with a median carina, 

 towards the base minutely shagreeued. Wings hyaline, ciliated, the 

 venation yellowish; the radial vein is very long, nearly one-half longer 

 than the first basal cell. Legs picecuis black, the trochanters, a dot at 

 base of tibiie and tarsi, rufous. Abdomen iiointed-ovate, highly pol- 

 ishetl black, a little shorter than the thorax, the third segment the 

 longest. " -r---- 



"Babitat. — Washington, D. C. ^ 



Type 5 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen taken on a window pane. 



