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cept the coxae, trochanters, and posterior tarsi, which are black, reddish- 

 yellow; the middle femora is sometimes black at base. Abdomen com 

 pressed, black, shining ; the ovipositor very prominent, nearly half the 

 length of abdomen. 



Hab. Indiana, Missouri, and Colorado. 



A single 9 is in the National Museum, bred August 12, 1881, 

 from an unknown Tortrix. 



(6) Toxoneura apicalis Cr. 



Toxoneuron apicale Cr. Can. Ent, v, p. 68. 

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



<3\ Length, 5mm. Black, shining, clothed with a very short dull 

 pubescence ; sutures of mesothorax not crenulated ; metathorax with 

 strongly developed elevated lines ; wings hyaline, the apex fuliginous, leav- 

 ingbase of marginal and of second cubital cells hyaline ; nervures and stigma 

 black; legs black; anterior femora, except base and their tibiae entirely, 

 bright orange-yellow; intermediate knees slightly tinged with testaceous. 

 (Cresson.) 



Hab. Illinois. 



Unknown to me. 



(7) Toxoneura tibiator Say. 



Bracon tibiator Say. Long's Second Exped., ii, p. 322. 

 Toxoneuron tibiator Lee. Ed. Say., ii, p. 710; Bost. Jour., i, p. 



259; Cr. Can. Ent., v, p. 68. 



9 Length, 5mm. Black ; wings hyaline, fuscous at apex ; the nervures 

 stout, dark brown ; legs black ; the anterior tibiae and tarsi, base of middle 

 tibiae, their tarsi and an annulus at base of hind tibiae, white or pale 

 yellowish. Abdomen oval, depressed. 



Hab. Atlantic coast from Florida to Canada, and west to Kansas. 

 Not rare in the Eastern States. In my collection is a single 

 specimen reared some years ago by Mr. C. L. Marlatt, at Man 

 hattan, Kansas, from a Lepidopterous Leaf-roller on Black Locust 



(8) Toxoneura thoracica Cr. 



Toxoneuron thoracicum Cr. Can. Ent., v, p. 68. 



cf 9- Length, 5 mm. Black, shining; head, prothorax, mesothorax, 

 spot beneath tegulse, and anterior legs, except coxae, trochanters, and base 

 of femora, pale ferruginous; spot on cheeks beneath, mouth, more or less 

 of clypeus, and a spot between ocelli and eyes in $ black; wings uni 

 formly blackish-fuliginous, nervures and stigma black; metathorax with 

 strongly developed elevated lines, forming an ovate central area. 



Hab. Codova, Mexico, and Arizona. 



Type in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



The specimen from Arizona is in my collection, obtained 

 through a collector. 



(9) Toxoneura abdominalis Cr. 



Toxoneuron abdominale Cr. Can. Ent., v, p. 68. 

 Toxoneuron abdominalis Cr. Syn. Hym., p. 230. 



