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riorly, tips rounded separately and with irregular margins. Legs long 

 and thin, hind femora reaching beyond the tips of the elytra, tarsi of five 

 segments, the first covered by the second from above, second, third and 

 fourth bearing lamellae beneath. Ungues long and thin, simple or but 

 slightly thickened. Type species : Hydnocera pedalis Leconte. 



The three species assigned to this genus, W. pedalis Lee, 

 sobrina Fall, and parviceps Schaeffer, have antennas which seem 

 to be midway between the three-segmented club type of Lemidia 

 Spinola and the two-segmented club type of Hydnocera New- 

 man. This genus is dedicated to Mr. Albert B. Wolcott, Chicago, 

 111., the recognized authority on North American Cleridse. 1 

 wish to thank Mr. Wolcott for his unbounded generosity in plac- 

 ing at my disposal his entire collection of these genera, but for 

 which I should have been unable to make the observations re- 

 corded above. Thanks is also due Dr. J. H. Merrill, of Kansas 

 Agricultural College, for the use of the Clerid material of that 

 institution. 



THREE NEW CHALCID FLIES FROM NORTH AMERICA. 



By A, A. GiRAULT, Glenn Dale, Md. 



Elachistus sanninoideae new species. 



Female: In the table of species runs to hyphantrice Crawford 

 but differs in that all the coxae are black, the abdomen is entirely 

 black except slightly above at base and the mandibles are dentate 

 (six teeth). Scape dusky at tip, the flagellum black. Club 2- 

 jointed, not nippled. The male is similar but the yellow area on 

 the abdomen is distinct (basal fourth except the margins) and 

 the scape is concolorous and foliaceously dilated ventrad. 



One male, four females reared from the pupa of Sanninoidea 

 exitiosa at Fayetteville, Arkansas, July 23 (G. Becker). 



Types: Catalogue No, Boy^S, U. S. National Museum, one 

 male, four females on tags, a male and female head and female 

 hind legs on a slide. 

 Secodes multilineatus new species. 



Female: Similar to Secodella viridis Crawford but smaller by 

 a half and the tips of the tibiae are plainly white, the knees nar- 



