48 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Hoplisidia kohliana, sp. nov. 



Length (but in a somewhat disintegrated condition) about 20 mm. ; anterior 

 wings about 11£ mm., with a dusky cloud in the second s. m., and suffusedly 

 below; length of abdomen about 10 mm., its width 4; measurements in /a : — 

 length of marginal cell about 2250 ; its breadth 525 ; length of first s. m. about 

 2475 ; length of second s. m. on marginal, about 600 ; on cubital nervure about 

 1050; of third s. m. on marginal 600, and on cubital 1140 ; insertion of first r. n. 

 from first t. c. 420; insertion of second r. n. from second t. c, 300 ; length of first 

 discoidal, 3300. 



Type.— No. 2018, Mus. Comp. Zool. Florissant, Col. (No. 742, S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). Named after the author of the most useful work on the 

 genera of fossorial wasps. 



Hoplisus sepultus, sp. nov. 



Probable length about 10 mm. (head, much of thorax, and base of wings missing 

 in the type) ; abdomen sessile, apparently normal, curved downwards as though 

 in the act of stinging ; hind tibia with tarsus about 4| mm. ; wings with a dark 

 cloud in base of marginal cell, filling second s. m., and extending suffusedly below, 

 still showing brilliant iridescent colors, especially in second s. m. ; nervures more 

 slender than in Hoplisidia kohliana; stigma large, its breadth about 170 (this and 

 all following measurements in /x) ; marginal cell about 1500 long and 300 broad, 

 pointed on costa ; b. n. beginning at or very near base of stigma, and going a little 

 basad of t. m. ; length of first s. m. about 1275; second s. m. hexagonal, its length 

 on marginal 300, on oblique apex of first discoidal 170 to 270 (this variation in the 

 opposite wings of the same individual) ; first recurrent nervure to second (both 

 received by second s. m.) 300 ; second r. n. to origin of second t. c. 150 ; third s. m. 

 oblique, its greatest length (from upper basal to lower apical corners) 1125, its length 

 on marginal 450, its length on cubital nervure 750, its tip surpassing marginal cell 

 a little ; insertion of third t. c. to tip of marginal cell 570 ; length of first discoidal 

 about 2100 ; second r. n. very strongly bowed outwards. Hind wing reversed in 

 the specimen ; cubital nervure meeting t. m. ; distance fromt. m. to t. c. 1800. 



Type. — No. 2019, Mus. Comp. Zool. Florissant, Col. (No. 980, S. H. 

 Scudder Coll.). 



No. 2710, S. H. Scudder Coll., is a wing of Hoplisus sepultus, with a small 

 portion of the body. The measurements are in part greater than in the type 

 indicating perhaps the opposite sex or a larger individual, but evidently not 

 another species. Length of marginal cell about 1500, its breadth about 300; 

 length of first submarginal about 1350, the b. n. hardly going so near stigma 

 as in type ; second s. m. on marginal 240 ; distance between first and second 

 recurrent nervures at insertion 300; length of first r. n. 750 (same in type); 

 insertion of second r. n. to origin of second t. c. 150 ; greatest length of third 

 s. m. about 1200 ; third s. m. on marginal 570 ; length of third t. c. 795 ; 

 insertion of third t. c. to apex of marginal cell 600. Cloud in second s. m., 

 etc., as in type. 



