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The 9 of this specioH was n'reived tVoiii Mr. T. 1), A. Cockerell, from 

 ('(ih)ia<h>, hut I h.ivt' no doubt it is properly correhitetl with ii <J tsikeii 

 iu Virginia, as it agrees iu venation and general apiM-arance. although 

 the color of the gbdouien is slightly ditterent. 



Cinetus mellipes Say. 



(PI. XIV, FiK.6, 9.) 



Selyta mellipes Say Loc, Ed. Say's Works, ii, p. ~2C>. 

 Xvnoloma iinllipiM AhIiiii. Can. Knt., XIX, p. VMJ. 

 Cnetus mellipes Cr. Syn. Ilyiii., p. 2.">(>. 



9. Length, 2.5""". Polished black, shining, pubescent; anteunae 

 fuscous, the Mrst two joints lioney-yellow; legs honey-yellow. An- 

 tenna' If)- jointed, (iliforin, reaching to the niiddle of the abdomen; 

 scape more than twice as long as the first flagellar Joint; first and 

 second tlagellar Joints ecpuil, .'{ times as long as the pedicel; the follow- 

 ing Joints to eighth gradually shortening; from here to the last much 

 shorter, the thirteenth and fourteenth being only a little longer than 

 thick, ecjual, and slu)rterthan the last which is conic. Wings hyaline, 

 the marginal cell only twice the length of the marginal vein, the venaticm 

 fuscous. Abdomen one third longer thau the head and tiiorax to- 

 gether, the petiole b'3ing mor«' than twice as long as the metathorax, 

 tinted; the body of abdomen is smooth, shining, covered with .sparse 

 white hairs along the sides, at tip and beneath, the first .segment occu- 

 pying nearly the whole surfa<!e, with a longitudinal sulcus at base; the 

 8e<;ond is very short, but twice the length of the third; the last conic, 

 piceous. 



Habitat. — Indiana and Arlington, V^a. 



Specimens in Coll. Ashmead. 



Cinetus similis, s\). nov. 



9. Length, 2.8 Polished black, pubescent; scape, pedicel, .and 



legs honey yellow; rest of antenna; subfu.scons. Head transverse, 

 wider than the thorax. Antenna' 15 Jointed, filiform; the scape fully 

 4 times as long as the first fiagellar Joint, obclavate, first ami second 

 flagellar Joints ecjual, twice as long as tlie pedicel or a little more than 

 .3 times as long as thick, the following Joints very gradually sub- 

 equal, the last conical, one third longer than the penultimate. Wings 

 hyaline, pubescent, the marginal cell about .'? times as hmg as the 

 marginal vein. Abdomen conic-ovate, black, polished, the petiole 

 opa<pie, fluted, nearly twice the length of the metanotnm, the third 

 segment short but about twice the length of the fourth. 



Habitat. — Arlington, Ya. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Allied to C. mellipes Say, but differs in the relative length of the 

 antenna! joints and in having a longer marginal cell. 



Cinetus californicus, sp. nov. 

 $ . Length, 2.5 "" . Polished black, nearly devoid of pubescence, the 



