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rowed, carinated black process for the reception of the tip of the oviduct; 

 feet dull honey-yellow. Length <f> seven-twentieths of an inch." (Say.) 



Hab. Virginia. 



Mr. Say further says : 



44 1 found this species on the sea beach of Sempuxent Island." 



S. senea, Prov. Add. a la Faun. Hym., p. 200. 



$. Length, 2 mm. Black, more or less bronzed, with the mouth and 

 antennse reddish. Antennae very long, filiform, pubescent, the joints 

 distinct. Thorax rugoso-punctate, the prothorax very short. Wings gen 

 erally obscured with brownish nervures. Legs brown, more or less red 

 dish. Abdomen with a short and stout petiole, the rest oval, depressed; 

 the third segment the largest, polished, shining, rounded at the extremity. 

 (Provancher.) 



Hab. Ottawa (Harrington). 



Unknown to me and probably not a Spalangia. 



S. rugosicollis sp. n. 



9- Length, 2.5 mm. Blue-black, the mesonotum and scutellum, 

 aeneous ; the head and prothorax with large, close, umbilicate punctures ; 

 the mesonotum with a large, polished, impunctate space anteriorly, but 

 rugoso-punctate posteriorly; the parapsides and scutellum with some 

 sparse round punctures ; mesopleura smooth with a fovea at the middle. 



Legs blue-black, the tarsi, except the last joint and the claws, reddish- 

 yellow; the second joint of posterior trochanters is dilated above. 

 Scutellum with a transverse row of punctures before the tip. Metathorax 

 carinated, the space on each side of the central carina, rugoso-punctate. 



Abdomen oval, the petiole very long, longitudinally striated, the second 

 and fourth segments the longest, the latter longer than the second, the 

 third about half the length of the second. Wings hyaline, the venation 

 brown; the marginal vein is a little more than half the length of the 

 submarginal, the postmarginal and the stigmal veins very short, about 

 equal, thrice as long as thick. 



Hab. Missouri. 



Type in National Museum. 



Described from a single specimen. The species seems to come 

 nearest to the European S. hirta Hal., but it is decidedly smaller 

 and not so distinctly metallic. 



S. drosophilae, Ashm. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xiv, p. 199. 



9- Length, 2 mm. Blue-black, shining. The oblong, flattened head 

 has a longitudinal medial groove, with coarse, distant punctures and a 

 sparse pubescence. Antennae lo-jointed. Prothorax elongate, narrowed 

 before; the scutellum is divided by a transverse row of punctures before 

 the tip; the metathorax has two lateral longitudinal grooves and its disk 

 with a double row of coarse punctures confluent behind. The abdominal 



