242 Sai/s Descriptions of 



Body ferruginous, with crowded, discoidal punctures, 

 giving the surface a reticulate appearance : head without 

 obvious punctures; orbits tinged wdth yellow: antenncB 

 blackish ; first joint yellowish beneath : thorax with a 

 slightly impressed line before, and another each side be- 

 hind, obsolete; dilated sutures about the scutel black: 

 wings hyaline ; nervures blackish ; stigma rather slen- 

 der ; second cubital cellule none, the anterior recurrent 

 nervure obtusely arcuated ; second recurrent nervure 

 rectilinear : ahdomen slender, dull honey-yellow, piceous 

 black above and at tip 3 without large punctures : oviduct 

 as long as the basal joint of the abdomen: feet dark 

 honey-yellow : pleura above the anterior feet with ob* 

 llque lines : pectus black. 



Length about two fifths of an inch. 



3. A, mellipes. Black ; feet honey-yellow ; posterior 

 thighs armed with a spine. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Anomalon meUipes, Nob. Contrib. Mad. Lye. p. 74. 



9 Body black, polished : head with the distance be- 

 hind the eyes considerable : lahrum dull piceous : paJpi 

 dull whitish : thorax with the impressed lines rather 

 deep, rendering the thoracic lobes very distinct : wings 

 with a slight dusky tint : metathorax with an obvious 

 spine on each side of the posterior declivity : feet honey- 

 yellow: coxcB and thighs robust, particularly those of the 

 posterior pair, of which the thighs are 'armed beneath 

 near the tip with a prominent spine : oviduct as long as 

 the body, or a little longer, somewhat compressed towards 

 the tip. 



Length nearly seven twentieths of an inch* 

 ^ Anterior and intermediate th 

 Lenerth less than seven tw^ntif 



