352 BULLETIN 15, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Miota glabra Ashin. 

 (Plate XIV, Fig. 2, 9.) 

 Bull. No. 1, Col. Biol. Assoc, p. 12. 



9. Length, 2.6 """. Bhu'k, shiuiuff, pubescent. Mandibles i)ale. Aii- 

 teinue 15-Jointed, cylindrical, a little thickened toward tips, brown, 

 darker at tips; the s(;ape is only slightly longer than the first liagellar 

 Joint; pedicel long oval; the joints after the tirst become gradually 

 shorter, the three preceding the last about twice as long as thick, 

 the last fusiform and about twice as long as the penultimate. Thorax 

 with two grooves. Mesopleura with a transverse groove below the 

 middle. Scutellum smooth, polished, with a large, deep fovea at base. 

 iVfetathorax with 3 delicate keels, the posterior angles a little prom- 

 inent. Legs brownish-yellow, the posterior pair somewhat rufous. 

 Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation brown; the marginal vein is 

 about as long as the closed triangular marginal cell; the stigmal nerv- 

 ure is straight and less than half the length of the marginal. Abdo- 

 men black, polished, the apex rufous, the petiole suboi)a(pie, tinted, 

 pubescent beneath. 



Habitat.— West Cliff, Colo. 



Type ? in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen, taken by T, I). A. Cockerell. 



Miota anedis, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 4" ". Black, shining, sparsely pilose. Antenna^ and 

 legs brownish yellow, the antenna^ fascous beyond the middle. Abdo- 

 men piceous-black, the apex yellow. The antenniie are 15-jointed, long, 

 filiform; the scape is very long, reaching far beyond the ocelli, and 

 longer than the tirst flagellar joint; the pedicel small; first flagellar 

 joint about G times as long as thick, the following joints gradually short- 

 ening, the last longer than the penultimate. Mesopleura with a deep 

 oblique groove at the middle. Scutellum convex jiosteriorly, with a 

 deep fovea at base. Metathorax with 3 keels, the sides hairy. 

 Wings hyaline, the marginal vein as long as the marginal cell; the first 

 branch of the stigmal nervure is a little oblique. The petiole of the 

 abdomen is not quite twice as long as the metathorax, striated; the 

 second abdominal segment has a long sulcus at base. 



HABITAT.— Carolina. . .. 



Type in lioyal Berlin Museum. 



Described from a single specimen, labeled "Carolina, Zimmerman." 



_.__ . — _^ -^^ — Miota coloradensis Ashiii. 



Pailomma coloradcnse Ashiu., Bull. No. 1, Col. Biol. Assoc, p. 11. 

 9 . Length, 3""". Polished black, pubescent. Eyes almost bare. 

 Mandibles brown. Antenn;e filiform, broken at tips, dark-brown above, 

 yellowish beneath ; scape very long, cylindrical, nearly twice as long 



