MONOGKAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PKOCTOTKYPID.E. 101 

 Aphelopus melaleucus Duluiun. 



(PI. VI, Fig. 3, 9.) 



(lonatupits mvlaleuciix Daliii., Sv. Ak. Hiinill.. !S1«, p. «2 9 ; Dalin., An. Ent., p. 14. 



DriiiniiH utrutnH Diilm. loc. oil., p. 1.5. 



Jphelopna mthilciiciiH Xces.. Mon.. II, p. '^XH, 9 ; Walk., Kut. Mag., iv, p. J27, pi. 



XVI, tig. 3 9 . 

 Jphclopiix (itrutiiH Nt'es., Moii., 11, p. :]M!» J . 

 Aphel<>)>iisnuI(iliiiciii'V\u>in>^..()i\ ..lXii(K\>. 179, <? 9 ; MarslL.Cat. Itrit. llym.,p.7. 



9 . Leu^i'tli, 1.8""". Jihuk ; anterior orbits, fm-v. below the eyes, ely- 

 peus, except sonietiuies 11 central line, mandibles and anterior eoxa^ and 

 legs, white; middle legs, honey-yellow; posterior legs, except a spot 

 beneath the coxa» and tlie trochanters, usually brown or piceous; an- 

 tenna' brown, the tlagellnm a little thickened towards th«' tip, the tlrst 

 four Joints nearly e<pial, the three following stouter, but nuich shorter, 

 the last .joint nearly twice as long as the preceding. 



S . Length, 1.5"'"'. In thi.s sex the clypeus and the mandibles are 

 white, the legs brown or fusi^ous, the apical half of anterior femora, 

 their tibia' and tarsi, honey-yellow or whitish; the other legs are also 

 sonietiuies varied with yellow. 



llAiHTAT. — Hurope, Canada. 



This European si)ecies is recognized in our fauna from a single female, 

 taken at Ottawa, Canada, by Mr. W. 11. Harrington. Monsieur Alfred 

 Giard has bred it in France, from TyphJovijha hippocastani and T. 

 dovf/lnsi, an<l has given a most interesting account of its habits, in the 

 Comptes liendus des Seances de l'Acad«''mie des Sciences for 1880. 



Aphelopus albopictus sp. uov. 



9 . Length, 1.5"'"'. Black, shining, the head alone finely, closely 

 punctulate, subopaque; face beh)W the front ocellus, clypeus, mandi- 

 bles, lower part of cheeks, pal^u, anterior and middle legs, pronotum to 

 the tegula', and tlu^ propectus, white or yeUowish white; posterior legs 

 embrowned, the coxje, trochanters and base of femora and tibia', white; 

 clypeus anteriorly slightly emarginate at the middle. Head large, sub- 

 quadrate, with a slight carina between the anteniue. Antennae 10- 

 jointed, dark brown, slightly thickened toward tips, densely pubescent ; 

 the first flagellar joint is a little longer than the short scape, the former 

 the stouter; joints 4, 5, and (J slightly longer than the first, the seventh, 

 eighth, and ninth shorter, only a little longer than wide, the tenth about 

 twiceas longas the penultimatt\ Mesonotum with the furrows indicated 

 only anteriorly. Metathorax rugose, obliipiely rounded otf posteriorly. 

 Abdomen very small, compressed, about half the length of the tliorax, 

 polished, black. Wiugs hyaline, the nervures, except the large brown 

 stigma, very pale and indistinct, or subobsolete; stigmal uervure as 

 long as the stigma, slightly arcuate. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C, and Bladtnsburg, Md. - — 



Types in ColL Ashmead. " 



