DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 67 



pale honey-yellow, the tarsi, especially at tips, slightly dusky, the hind femora and 

 tibhe a little dusky towards tips, and a narrow rufous ring at base of former. Wings 

 hyaline, iridescent; veins brown; stigma honey-yellow, with an opaque brown cloud; 

 two cubital cells, the outer small, sub-quadrate; the radial large; one discoidal, long 

 and narrow. Length, exclusive of ovipositor, 0.18 inch [=4.5 mm ]. 

 Described from 1 9 bred from Acrobasisjuglandis, LeB. [Fourth Rept., p. 43. 



SPATIIIUS TRIFASCIATUS, N. Sp. 9 . Average length, 0.18 inch [= 4.5 mm ]. Color, 

 light-brown. Head pubescent, palpi long and pale ; eyes black ; ocelli black, con- 

 tiguous ; antennae smooth, pale, and reaching to second abdominal joint. Thorax with 

 sutures dark-brown ; legs more or less dusky, the tarsi (except at tip) an annulus at 

 base of tibiae, and the trochanters, pale ; wings fuliginous, with a white fascia at base, 

 at tip and across outer middle of front wing, including the inner half of stigma, the 

 outer half of which is dark-brown ; middle fascia most clearly defined. Abdomen 

 slightly pubescent at sides and tip ; first joint pale, petiolate, and with short and lon- 

 gitudinal aciculations above ; second joint pale above, the others more or less brown ; 

 ovipositor pale, dusky at tip, and long as abdomen. 



One bred specimen. 



$ Dilt'ers in being much darker colored, the head, thorax and femora being brown, 

 and the metathorax and base of first abdominal joint black. 



One bred specimen. [Fifth Rept., p. 100. 



BRACOX CHARUS, N. sp. 9 Length of body 0.35 inch [ = 8.7 mu] ]; of ovipositor 

 0.40 inch [= 10 mm ]; expanse of wing 0.65 inch [ =16'- um ]. Colors black and deep rufous. 

 Head, thorax, legs and antenuce polished black, the legs and sides of head and thorax 

 with a fine grayish pubescence ; trophi also black. Abdomen uniformly deep rufous. 

 Terebra of ovipositor pale yellow, the sheaths black and very faintly pubescent. Wings 

 deep fuliginous with a faint zig-zag, clear line across the middle from the stigma. 



Described from 7 9 's? all bred from Chrysobothris femorata. [Seventh Rept., p. 75. 

 Fig. 13. 



BRACOX SCOLYTIVORUS, Cress. 9 Black, shining, metathorax and base of abdo- 

 men pubescent ; face, anterior orbits, lower half of cheeks, clypeus, mandibles, except 

 tips, palpi, teguhe, legs, including cox;, and abdomen, honey-yellow, the latter darker ; 

 posterior coxie sometimes dusky ; antenna} at base beneath, dull testaceous ; wings 

 fuliginous, apical half paler, iridescent ; abdomen shining, first segment whitish later- 

 ally, the base and disc sometimes dusky ; base of second segment with a large subtri- 

 angular flattened space inclosed by a deep groove, the posterior side of which is generally 

 blackish; ovipositor longer than abdomen ; sheaths black; length, .15 .17 inch [ = 

 34 4i mm ]. 



$ More pubescent; posterior cox;e blackish, also the femora above, especially the 

 posterior pair ; posterior tibitu dusky ; abtlomeu black, polished ; apex of first, basal 

 half of second, and sides of apical segments more or less honey-yellow ; sides of basal 

 segment whitish ; wings paler ; abdomen narrower and rather more convex ; length, 

 .16 inch [=4 mm ]. 



Three $ , three 9 specimens. [Mr. E. T. Cresson, in Fifth Rept., p. 106. 



SIGALPHUS CURCULIOXIS, Fitch Imago. Head black, sub-polished, and sparsely 

 covered on the face with short whitish hairs; ocelli touching each other; labrum and 

 jaws brown ; palpi pale yellow ; antennie (Fig. 7, c) 27 -jointed, filiform, reaching, when 

 turned back, to middle joint of abdomen and beyond, the bulbus and small second joint 

 rufous and glabrous, the rest black or dark brown, though 3-10 in many specimens are 

 more or less tinged with rufous ; 3-14 very gradually diminishing in size ; 14-27 sub- 

 equal. Thorax black, polished, the metathorax distinctly and broadly punctate, and 

 the rest more or less distinctly punctate or rugose, with the sides sparsely pubescent. 

 Abdomen pitchy-black, flattened, the dorsum convex, the venter concave, and the sides 

 narrow-edged and slightly carinated ; the three joints distinctly separated and of 

 about equal length ; the first joint having two dorsal longitudinal carime down the 



