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1. TOXONEURON ÆTHIOPS. JV. sp. 
® .— Black, shining, clothed rather thickly with a short whitish pubes- 
cence ; wings fuliginous, a sub-hyaline spot beneath base of stigma, 
posterior wings except tips and costa, hyaline ; legs black, anterior knees 
bright honey-yellow, their tarsi palish. Length .25 inch. 
Cordova, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) 
2. TOXONEURON MINUTUM. J. sp. 
© .—-Very small, black, shining, slightly pubescent ; wings uniformly 
pale fuliginous, iridescent} legs black, tibial spurs white, anterior knees, 
their tibiæ, four anterior tarsi except tips, and intermediate knees pale 
yellowish. Length .ro inch. 
Illinois. 
3. TOXONEURON ORIZABÆ. JV. sp. 
g .— Black, shining, slightly pubescent; mandibles, anterior femora 
except base, their tibiæ and intermediate knees, honey-yellow, tibial spurs 
black ; wings fuliginous, iridescent, posterior pair sub-hyaline ; abdomen 
flat, base tinged with piceous. Length .16 inch. 
Orizaba, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) 
4. TOXONEURON EXPLORATOR. 
Bracon ( Toxoneuron ) explorator, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1, p. 259. 
“Indiana” (Say); Illinois; Texas. The femora except base, and the 
tibiæ except apex of posterior pair, are bright honey-vellow; tibial spurs 
pale ; in one specimen the posterior femora and tibiæ are dusky. Length 
.20 inch. 
5. TOXONEURON MEXICANUM. J. sp. 
g 9.—Black. shining, rather thickly clothed with a short, white, 
sericeous pubescence ; tips of mandibles brown ; impressed lines on meso- 
thorax and excavation at base of scutellum, crenulated ; wings hyaline, 
apex beyond first cubital cell fuliginous, nervures black ; spurs of anterior 
tibiæ pale. Length .25-.30 inch. 
Cordova, Mexico. (Sumichrast.) Sometimes the posterior orbits are 
tinged with honey-yellow, and the pubescence on anterior tibiæ tinged 
with yellow. 
