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the ffcmoisi and tibuu very slightly obfuscated. Head transverse, with 

 a fuscous spot on vertex. Antennie 12-jointed, the scape and funicle 

 pale brown, the club black ; first funiclar joint slightly shorter than the 

 pedicel, or a little longer than thick; second, shorter; third and fourth 

 minute, transverse; club fusiform, the joints short, transverse. Wings 

 hyaline, with a band below the punctiform marginal vein. Abdomen 

 long, fusiform, minutely punctate; the short horn on first segment 

 black, shining; base of the following segments black or fuscous. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, iP\&. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



This pretty little species is quite distinct from all the others, in size, 

 in the banded anterior wings, and in the bunded abdomen. It was 

 originally described in the genus Biconeura on account of the puncti- 

 form marginal vein. 



Caloteleia rubriclava Ashm. 

 Aeolus .•ubriclavua Ashm., Ent. Am. iii, p. 99; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 313. 



9 . Length, 3""". Pale brownish-yellow; the short horn at base of 

 abdomen black; eyes and ocelli brown. Antennae 12-jointed, pale; the 

 club large, subsolid, inarticulated, reddish-brown; first funiclar joint 

 shorter than the pedicel ; the three following very short. Mesonotum 

 closely, minutely punctulate, with 2 delicate furrows. Wings hyaline, 

 the marginal vein very short. Abdomen long, pointed-fusiform, the 

 first three segments longitudinally striated, the third apically, and the 

 following, smooth, shining. 



Habitat. — Ja(;ksonville, l^ la. ^ 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



This species is quite distinct from the others in color, and in having 

 a subsolid club. ^ ^ 



Caloteleia Marlattii, sp. nov. 



S 9. Length, 2.8 to 3.2'""'. Brownish-yellow, closely, minutely punc- 

 tulate; the head black or fuscous,the lower partof cheeks and faceoften 

 pale, especially in the female; the first and apical abdominal segments 

 in the male black or fuscous. 



AntennjB 12-jouited, brown-black ; in S filiform with the scape pale, 

 the first funiclar joint a little longer and thicker than the pedicel, the 

 second a little shorter than the third, and both shorter than the first, 

 the joints beyond oval-moniliform, loosely joined; in 9 terminating in a 

 large 6-jointed club, the second funiclar joint about half the length of 

 the first, the third and founh subquadrate. 



Mesonotum with 2 delicate furrows, punctate. Wings hyaline, pu- 

 bescent, the marginal vein slightly thickened, short; the stigmal vein 

 short and ending in a knob. 



Abdomen lung, fusiform, much narrowed at base, the first segment 



