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228 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGISY. 
Genus LEIOPHRON, Nees. 
LEIOPHRON LAEVIS. JV. s6.—%. Deep black, shining ; head small, 
face with a large shining prominence; mandibles dark rufous; palpi 
dusky; antennae about as long as body, black, scape dull rufo-picecus; 
thorax finely punctured, middle lobe of mesothorax prominent, as also the 
scutellum ; metathorax opaque, coarsely rugose, rather abrupt posteriorly, 
on each side above a rather deep longitudinal groove, curving inwardly 
and meeting on posterior face ; tegulae dull rufous ; wings hyaline, faintly 
dusky towards apex, nervures and stigma pale fuscous; legs, including 
coxae, honey-yellow, posterior coxae blackish at base and beneath, tips of 
their tibiae and their tarsi slightly dusky ; abdomen regularly fusiform from 
base to apex, first segment black, broad at apex, minutely and rather 
indistinctly aciculated longitudinally ; remainder of abdomen piceous, 
smooth and polished. Length .20 inch. 
Hab.— Canada. (Pettit.) One specimen. 
Genus Catyptus, Haliday. (Brachistes, Wesm.) | 
CALYPTUS MAJOR. AV sp.— $. Deep black, shining; head trans- 
verse, vertex and face irregular, densely punctured, the latter wide, occiput 
and cheeks smooth ; eyes small; clypeus tinged with rufous ; mandibles 
ferruginous, black at tips; palpi whitish ; antennae as long as head and 
thorax, brown black, scape pale brown; thorax shining, mesothoracic 
lobes prominent, sometimes tinged with brown, central lobe truncate . 
anteriorly, sutures coarsely crenulated ; tegulae honey-yellow ; wings 
faintly dusky, nervures and stigma black ; legs honey-yellow, coxae and 
trochanters paler, posterior tibiae fuscous; pale at base, basal joint of 
their tarsi dusky ; abdomen sub-compressed towards apex, smooth and 
polished, more or less tinged with piceous; first segment longitudinally 
aciculated ; ovipositor as long as body, honey-yellow, sheaths black. 
Length .18—.22 inch. 
Hab.— Canada ; Virginia; Illinois. Four specimens. 
CALYPTUS ROTUNDICEPS. JV. 5p.—f. Black, smooth and polished; 
head nearly globose ; mouth brown; palpi whitish ; antennae nearly as 
long as body, slender, brown-black, basal third luteous beneath ; tegulae, 
basal nervures of wings, and legs, pale luteous ; wings hyaline, sub- 
iridescent, faintly dusky at tips, stigma and nervures piceous; apical half 
of posterior tibiae blackish behind; abdomen smooth and polished, 
depressed, basal segment longitudinally aciculated. Length .16 inch. 
