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252 HYMENOPTEEA. 



hairs; coxse punctured. Wings with a smoky tinge, especially at the base. Areolet 

 quadrangular, scarcely angled in the middle where the recurrent nervure is received, 

 moderate in size. 



5. Cryptanura laticarinata. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



Identical in coloration with the above, but only 13 millim. in length. The face longer, 

 and broadly keeled in the centre ; the postpetiole not keeled at the side, and without 

 tubercles at the base ; the areolet larger. The sculpture and the length of the ovipositor 

 as in C. incauta. 



6. Cryptanura pedicata. 



Lutea ; capite, antennis (annulo excepto), dimidio apicali tibiarum posticarum abdominisque apice, nigris ; alia 



hyalinis, stigmate nigro. <$ . 

 Long. 10 millim. 



Hab, Mexico (Salle). 



Antennae longer than the body, shortly pilose, the joints closely united, the large 

 white ring placed beyond the middle, the base of the flagellum inclining to fuscous. 

 Head, if anything, broader than the mesothorax ; sparsely covered with white pile, the 

 front obsoletely carinate ; tips of the mandibles piceous ; palpi pale testaceous. Thorax 

 aciculate, slightly shining, the furrows on the mesonotum obsolete, the latter gibbous. 

 Scutellum not raised above the mesoscutum, but the latter slopes away from it at the 

 sides. Metathorax longish, narrowed behind, the top sloping gradually from the base 

 to the apex, the sides covered with white hair ; there is a longitudinal keel on either 

 side of the metanotum, but no transverse ones. Abdomen aciculate, the basal segments 

 narrow, longish, the apical segment compressed laterally. Legs longish ; hind spurs 

 fuscous ; base of the metatarsus blackish, the rest of the hind tarsi yellowish, except 

 the apex, which is black in all the tarsi. Areolet quadrangular, obtusely angled on 

 the lower side. 



7. Cryptanura (?) pachymenae. 



Cryptanura (?) pachymence, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 168 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, Cordova, Mirador 1 (Sumichrast). 



Bred from a species of Pachymenes (Cresson, loc. cit.). 



HEMITELES. 



Hemiteles, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. ii. p. 781. 



This genus is a very large one, and especially (so far at least as our present knowledge 

 goes) numerous in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



