444 BUIXETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Basalya fuscipennis, sp. nov. • 



S. I'<>ngth, 2.7""". Polished black, impunctured ; cheeks behind 

 and collar with a dense cinereous pubescence ; antennae, legs, and petiole 

 brownish-yellow ; wings fuscous. The antennae are very long, 14-jointed, 

 tapering toward tips; pedicel rounded, first flagellar joint about twice 

 as long as the pedi(^el, or less than half the length of the second flagellar 

 joint, the latter the longest joint except the last, very stout and a little 

 curved, the following joints to the last shorter, cylindrical, all about 

 of an equal length, fully thrice as long as thick, the last joint longer 

 than the j^enultimate. Thorax without furrows, but convexly swollen 

 medially anteriorly, the scutellum with a transverse fovea at base, the 

 sides straight, the postscutellum tricarinated, while the nietathorax has 

 the angles lobed and a prominent, blunt, median carina. Wings fuscous, 

 pubescent; the subraarginal uervure reaches the costa a little beyond 

 one-third the length of the wing ; the marginal vein triangular, piceous, 

 with a cloud below its tip. Abdomen oval, black, shining; the petiole 

 brownish-yellow, only a little longer than thick, fluted, and covered 

 with a fine grisecms pubescence. 



Habitat.— Washington, I). C. 



Type in Coll. Ash mead. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



Basalys picipes, 8p. nov. 



$ . Length, 2"'"". Polished black, impunctured; scape, pedicel, and 

 legs piceous ; flagellam brownish or fuscous ; base of tibije, trochanters, 

 and tarsi paler or brownish-yellow; wings subfuscous. The antennae 

 are 14-iointed, longer ihan the body, the first flagellar joint about half 

 as long as the second, tlie second the longest and stoutest joint except 

 the last, thicker toward apex than at base, a little curved, the follow- 

 ing joints not more than two and one-half times as long as thick, cylin- 

 drical, the last joint about twice as long as the penultimate, Imt slen- 

 derer. Metathorax covered with a rather dense cinereous pubescence, 

 rugulose. Abdomen entirely black, the joetiole fluted, i)ube8cent. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Tyi)e in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a sjiecimen given me by Mr. O. Heidemann. This 

 species differs from B.fiiscipennix, in its much smaller size, color of au- 

 tenna' and legs, the shorter flagellar joints, more pubescent metatho- 

 rax, and its wholly blaek abdomen. 



■ ■,. . _ Basalys utahensis, np. nov. 



S. Length, 2""". Polished black, impunctured; scape black, shin- 

 ing; pedicel and flagellnm brown-black; legs piceous, the trochanters, 

 knees, base and tips of tibije and tarsi, rufous. The antennie are 14- 

 jointed, stouter than in the preceding species, the first flagellar joint 

 less than half as long as the second^ the latter one-third longer than 



