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Described from four specimens, reared by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, 

 in April, 1887, from Pityophthorus consimilis Lee. 



C. scolytivora, sp. n. 



<3* 9- Length, 1.5 to 2 mm. Reddish-yellow or honey-yellow, highly 

 polished, impunctured ; in the $ with a brownish submetallic blotch 

 across the mesonotum and the scutellum, and a brownish transverse band 

 on the abdomen ; the coxae, trochanters, tarsi, and petiole, white ; antennae 

 10- or n-jointed gradually incrassated toward tips, submoniliform ; wings 

 hyaline, except a slight brownish blotch below the stigmal vein; in the 

 9 the apical half or more than the apical half of the abdomen is metallic- 

 brown, sometimes with purplish reflections, the ovipositor projects with 

 stout valves, its basal half yellow, its apical half black; the antennae are 

 stout, moniliform, Q-jointed, the club usually not jointed; wings hyaline 

 with a brown blotch on its disk below the stigmal vein and a much nar 

 rower brown streak below the juncture of the submarginal with the mar 

 ginal ; the marginal vein is longer than the submarginal, the stigmal and 

 postmarginal short, the former oblique and thickened at tip. The eyes, 

 in both sexes, are brown, bare, ocelli in a triangle. The head anteriorly 

 is tricornuted, the keel between the antennae sharp, triangularly pointed. 



Hab. South Florida. 



Types in National Museum. 



Described from 16 specimens, reared April 14, 1884, by Mr. 

 E. A. Schwarz, from Loganius ficus Schwarz, MS., found 

 on Ficus aurea. 



C. canadensis Prov. 



Theocolax canadensis Prov., Faun. Hym. Can. ii, p. 809. 



9- Length, 2 mm. Metallic brownish-red with coppery reflections. 

 Antennae kneed after the scape, which is long and lodged in a groove of 

 the face, brown, the scape testaceous, the last joints thickened, clavate. 

 Prothorax in the form of an elongate collar; mesothorax broad, longi 

 tudinally aciculated before. Rudiments of wings short. Legs testaceous ; 

 the extremity of the femora and the anterior tibiae brownish. Abdomen 

 thickened at the extremity; the ovipositor one-quarter the length of the 

 abdomen, testaceous, the extremity black. 



Hab. Cap Rouge, Canada. 



Type in Coll. Provancher. 



Unknown to me. The Abbe says: "Nous ne somme pas 

 certain que cet insect soit reellement un Theocolax, ce sont bien 

 les antennes de ce genre tel que decrit par Westwood, mais le 

 prothorax n'est pas triangular." 



