HYMENOPTERA 2OI 



Type. Cat. No. 561 1, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Yakutat, June 

 24. One male specimen. 



Named in honor of Dr. O. Schmiedeknecht, the distinguished 

 hymenopterologist of Blankenburg, Germany, who has so ably mono- 

 graphed the Pimplina of the European fauna. 



Genus Lampronota Haliday. 



LAMPRONOTA LUGUBRIS Cresson. 



Lampronotus ? lugubris CRESSON, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 379, 9, 



1878. CRESSON, Syn. Hym. North America, p. 219, 1887. 

 Cylloceria fuscolina DAVIS, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiv, p. 371, tf, 1897. 



Type in Collection of the American Entomological Society. From 

 Popof Island, July 10; Unalaska, August 24. Three male specimens. 



Originally described by Cresson from a single female collected at 

 Lake Quesnel, British Columbia. The male was described as Cyllo- 

 ceria fziscolina by Davis in 1897. It resembles the male of Lampro- 

 nota occidcntalis Cresson, but is at once separated by having all the 

 coxae black, the first joint of the trochanters being dusky above, while 

 the hind tibiae and tarsi are entirely black. 



Genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst. 



Two species belonging to this genus have been found in Alaska 

 and may be tabulated as follows : 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



Black ; extreme apices of dorsal segments 2 to 6 more or less white. 



Cljpeus yellow, the face above black; all coxae, except the apices of 

 front and middle pairs which are whitish, black P. clypearius. 



Cljpeus and the face lemon-yellow ; front and middle coxae and tro- 

 chanters white, the hind legs, except the second joint of the trochan- 

 ters, black P.Jlavifrons, 



PHYTODIETUS CLYPEARIUS sp. nov. 



Male and Female. Length 5.5 mm. Polished black, the face 

 coriaceous; clypeus, mandibles, palpi, tegulae, the extreme tips of 

 dorsal abdominal segments 3 to 6, or the sutures, the tips of front 

 tibiae and more or less of the apices of the front and middle coxae, 

 yellow or yellowish-white ; rest of legs, except coxae, basal joint of 

 hind trochanters, extreme apex of their femora and their tibiae and tarsi 

 which are black, fulvous, the middle tibiae above and their tarsi usually 



