350 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



Type.— O^t. No. 4720, U.S.N.M. (Ashmead collection.) 

 Habitat. — Colorado. 



3. MEROMYZOBIA FLAVICINCTA Ashmead. 



Clioreta flavicincta Ashmead, Ent. Amer., IV, 1888, p. 17, female. — Dalla Torre 

 Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 248. 



Ty^e.— Cat. N"o. 4721, U.S.KM. (Ashmead collection.) 

 Habitat. — Florida. 



4. MEROMYZOBIA MACULIPENNIS Ashmead. 



Ericydnns niaculipennis Ashmead, Bull. Ohio Esper. Sta., 1, 1893, p. 162, female. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 249. 



Ty2)e.—Cat. No. 4722, U.S.N.M. ( Ashmead collection.) 



Habitat. — Ohio. 



Host. — Dipt. : Meromyzaamericana Fitch; f Glilorops ingratdl^Wli^ton. 



5. MEROMYZOBIA FLAVA Ashmead, new species. 



Male. — Length, 1.6 mm. Brownish-yellow; the trochanters, base of 

 hind tibite, tibial spurs and tarsi,exceptterminal joints, yellowish white; 

 eyes purplish brown ; flagellum brown ; wings hyaline, the marginal and 

 stigmal veins brown. Abdomen short oval. 



Antennae 9-jointed (scape, pedicel, 4 funicle joints and an indistinctly 

 3-jointed club) ; the flagellum is subcompressed, the joints of the funicle 

 about thrice as long as wide or the fourth is somewhat shorter; the 

 club is longer than the slender scape, 3-jointed, but the sutures sepa- 

 rating the joints are made out with difficulty; the pedicel is very small, 

 hardly longer than thick. 



Ttjpe.—Cat. No. 4723, U.S.N.M. (Ashmead collection.) 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



6. MEROMYZOBIA UNIFASCIATA Ashmead, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Brownish-yellow ; the middle lobe of scutel- 

 lum, the metanotum, and the middle tibite, except distal ends, obfur- 

 cated; hind femora, their tibiae, except basal two-thirds, which is 

 white, and their (arsi, fuscous. Abdomen black, with the basal seg- 

 ment yellowish. Wings, hyaline, with a large discoidal fuscous cloud 

 beneath the marginal and stigmal veins. 



T2/i?e.— Cat. No. 4724, U.S N.M. (Ashmead collection.) 



Habitat. — Mississippi: Utica. 



4. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS Ashmead. 



1894. Chrysopophagus Ashmead, Ins. Life, VII, p. 246. 



(Type, Chrysopophagus comjjressicornis Ashmead.) 



I. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS BANKSI Howard. 



Chrysopophagus banksi Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, 1898, p. 247, female. 



Type.— Gat. No. 3851, U.S.N.M. ' 



Habitat. — Texas : College Station ; New Mexico : Mesilla Park, 



