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the third, autl a little dilated toward tip, joints 3 to 5 about twice as 

 long as thick, the joints beyond to the last about two and one- half 

 times as long as thick, the last one-half longer than the penultimate. 

 The scutellum has a large, deep quadrate fovea at base, the sides 

 parallel, keeled; the metathorax rugose, with the usual central carina 

 above, prominent posterior angles and almost devoid of pubescence. 

 Wings subhyaline, jmbescent, the venation pale, the stigma brown, 

 with a slight cloud beneath the tip. Abdomen oblong-oval, black, 

 shining, the petiole very stout, not longer than thick, rugose, pubes- 

 cent above and beneith. 



Habitat. — City Canyon, Utah. 



T>i>e in Coll. Ashmead. 



A single specimen given me by Mr. Schwarz. Resembles B. picipes, 

 but the antennjc are shorter and stouter, wings paler, while the abdo- 

 men is difterently shaped. 



Basalys aiialis, sp. nov. 



2 . Ticngth, 2.5""". Polished black; antennae and legs brownish- 

 yellow, the former dusky toward the tips; collar, metathorax and 

 petiole covered with a white woolly ]mbescence; scutellum bifoveated 

 at base; metathorax with a ijyramidal prominence at base. 



Antennae 13-jointed, very long, the scape unusually long, more than 

 half the length of the flagelluni. the flagellum gradually iucrassated 

 towards the tip; pedicel stouter but not longer than the first flagellar 

 joint; the flagellar joints to fifth giadually shortening, but widening, 

 the following to the last, submoniliform, the last, enlarged, ovate, about 

 thrice as large as the penultimate. 



Wings subhyaline, pubescent, the marginal vein thickened and 

 truncate at apex. Abdomen conic-ovate, one and a half times as long 

 as the heatl and thorax together, polished black, the pointed tip reddish. 



Habitat. — Carolina and Texas. 



Types in Berlin Museum and Coll. Ashmea<l. 



Described fr<>m two specimens. The specimen in the Berlin Museum 

 is labeled "Carolina, Zimmermann." 



Basalys ruficomis Prov. 



Nat. Can., xii, p. 261; Faun. Ent. Can,, ii, p. 560. 



S . Length, 0.15 inch. Black, polished, shining; the mandibles, with 

 the legs, rust red; the palpi pale yellow. Antennic ferruginous, in- 

 serted on a i)rominence of the face. Metathorax rugose, short, with 

 two diverging keels. Wings subhyaline, the 2 subcostal nervures, 

 with the stigma, black. Coxje black at the base. Abdomen with a 

 grooved petiole, margined at the sides, the rest polished, shining, 

 the extremity punctured. 



Habitat. — Canada. 



Unknown to me. 



