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anterior tarsi, except tips and middle knees, pale yellowish; abdomen 

 oval, the ovipositor prominent. 



Hab. Illinois, Missouri. 



Type in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



This species has been reared by Miss Mary Murtfeldt, at Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., from Gelechia prunifoliella. 



(3) Toxoneura floridana, sp. n. 



$. Length, 7 mm. Black, polished; tips of mandibles and anterior 

 legs, except coxae and trrchanters, alone yellowish-red; trophi and middle 

 and hind legs, except a piceous tinge on the knees of middle legs, entirely 

 black; tibial spurs on middle and hind legs black. 



Head impunctate; eyes pubescent; clypeus with a median furrow; 

 thorax trilobed, the middle lobe triangular; metathorax coarsely rugose, 

 with a large central area ; wings blackish fuliginous, the stigma and nerv- 

 ures black, the second abscissa of radius scarcely more than twice as long as 

 the first. Abdomen oblong-ovate, depressed, the first segment about as 

 large as the second and third united, the second shorter than the third, 

 with the sutures between deeply impressed, the following segments shorter 

 but about equal in length. 



Hab. Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



(4) Toxoneura californica, sp. n. 



9. Length, 6 mm. Polished black, sparsely punctate; metathorax 

 and mesosternum rugose, the former not areolated ; mandibles and palpi 

 black; abdomen subcompressed, the ventral valves large, prominent, 

 plow-share shaped. Antennae 27-jointed, shorter than the body. Wings 

 subfuliginous, the first abscissa of radius "less than one-third the length of 

 the second, the second transverse cubital and the second abcissa of radius 

 at their junction hyaline. Legs, except coxse, trochanters and base of the 

 femora, reddish-yellow: hind tarsi fuscous. 



Hab. Los Angeles, California. 



Types in National Museum. 



Allied to T. explorator Say, but much larger ; the ovipositor 

 shorter, scarcely projecting beyond the apex ot abdomen, the face 

 and clypeus more strongly punctate, while the wings are paler 

 at base. 



(5) Toxoneura explorator Say. 



Bracon explorator Say. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., i, p. 259. 

 Toxoneuron explorator Lee. Ed. Say, ii, p. 710; Cress. Can.Ent., 



v., p. 67. 



Toxoneura explorator Cr. Syn. Hym., p. 230. 



9. Length, 3.75 mm. Black, polished ; mandibles, at the middle, rufo- 

 piceous; palpi piceous ; face shining, sparsely microscopically punctate ; 

 antennas 29-jointed ; thorax with smooth impressed parapsidal furrows; 

 metathorax rugose. Wings subfuliginous, the stigma large, the second 

 abscissa of radius a little more than twice as long as the first. Legs, ex- 



