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around ocelli, this merging into brownish red and to testaceous 

 anteriorly, surface roughened, covered with short sparse hairs, these 

 becoming more dense on the face ; ocelli in equilateral triangle ; head 

 produced and sides convergent behind the eyes; occiput truncate, 

 arcuate; face, clypeus and mandibles except dark amber colored 

 teeth of latter, testaceous, without median carina and densely pilose ; 

 antennae testaceous, moderately long. (Fig. 27.) Prothorax wider 

 than long (6:3), narrower than mesoscutum, coarsely punctate, 

 posterior margin notched at border of mesoscutum, finely pilose on 

 sides ; mesoscutum punctate anteriorly, punctures being finer than on 

 pronotum and becoming still smaller and more scattered posteriorly, 

 parapsidal furrows distinct, converging and extending halfway 

 down mesoscutum, scutellum with less distinct punctation than meso- 

 scutum; legs testaceous; chela as in Figure 13; wings diaphanous 

 with venation light, proximal part of radius much longer than distal, 

 propodeum black, pilose, rugose, posteriorly with distinct median 

 field bounded by carinae, carina bordering upper portion of field 

 extended so that upper parts of two lateral fields are visible, posterior 

 iace thus appearing to have three fields. Abdomen polished, black ; 

 first segment near petiole brownish. 

 Type locality. — Rosslyn, Va. 



Described from one specimen collected July 1, 1913, by E.. C. 

 Shannon. 



Type.—Q^X. No. 40188, U.S.N.M. 



PKENANTEON MICROPUNCTATUS. new species 

 Figs. 28 and 14 



This specimen traces to the genus Prenanteon in Kieffer's key and 

 agrees well with his description of that genus.' Thus, the parapsidal 

 furrows fail to reach the posterior margin of the mesoscutum, ex- 

 tending only halfway to that point; the metatarsus is somewhat 

 Longer than the fourth tarsal joint; the median chela arm is provided 

 with lamellae ; and the radius is only slightly angled, with the proxi- 

 mal part somewhat shorter than the distal. In the description of 

 the two Nearctic species, this specimen comes closest to Prenanteon 

 hakeri (Kiejffer). 



Female. — Length, 3.8 mm. General color black, except as noted, 

 body covered with fine microscopic scattered whitish pilosity. 

 "Head black, antennae and clypeus testaceous, scape of former lighter ; 

 mandibles testaceous, teeth dark amber color; vertex smooth and 

 polished with fine scattered punctation; no median carina present; 

 antennae as in Figure 28. Pronotum not quite as long as mesoscu- 

 tum, smooth and shining with very fine punctation, which, however, 

 is coarser than on vertex ; mesoscutum with parapsidal furrows con- 

 verging, but extending less than halfway to posterior margin, with 



