OF WASHIXGTOX, VOLUMI. XIX, 1917 171 



interrupts! in the middle above); tegulae black with a reddish center 

 and a deep testaceous margin; wings dusky, more sonapically; veins light 

 brown, stigma darker; veins beyond .second transverse cubital obsolescent 

 second recurrent before apex of second cubital cell; third cubital cell one- 

 third longer than second, narrowed one-half to marginal ; legs black, pubes- 

 scence ochraceous, that on outer side of tibiae, especially hind, black; 

 inner hind spur with three long teeth; abdomen closely, finely punctured, 

 including depressed apical margins of segments; bases segments 2-5 with 

 light ochraceous hair bands; base of first segment covered with similar 

 pubescence. 



Male. Length about 6.5 mm. Black, without any yellow markings; 

 very similar to female, but tagulae, veins and stigma darker; base of sev- 

 enth abdominal segment forming a semicircular polished and impunctate 

 pseudopygidium with carinate edge which conceals true apex of segment. 



Type locality. Baguio, Luzon, P. I. 



Described from 15 9 9 and Icf received from Col. Wirt Robin- 

 son, U. S. A. 



Tiipc. Cat. No. 21360 U. S. N. M. 



Very similar in general appearance to H. banahaonis Ckll. 

 from which it differs in the carinate anterior margin of the meso- 

 scutum, the strongly projecting lateral angles of the pronotum, 

 the coarser punctures of the mesoscutum the absence of the 

 carinae on the propodeum, running forward from the lateral 

 angles of the carina surrounding posterior face. 



CYNIPOIDEA. 

 Amblynotus slossonae new species 



Female. Length 4 mm., antennae about 2.25 mm. Black, head and 

 mesonotum finely shagreened, pronotum at sides above rugulose, the 

 sculpture becoming finer beneath; third joint of antennae longer than scape 

 and pedicel combined; following joints successively decreasing in length; 

 last joint over one and one-half times as long as 12th; parapsidal furrows 

 complete, deeply cut throughout; posteriorly twice as broad anteriorly; 

 parapsidal areas each with a longitudinal smooth line; middle lobe ante- 

 riorly with two lines and at apex with a median elongate triangular im- 

 pression; scutellum coarsely rugose, basally with two large foveae separated 

 by a carinate ridge; mesopleurae below co:irsely striate, above finely granu- 

 lar with a few indistinct fine striae; wings basally strongly yellowish, the 

 apical half very slightly so; coxae black, legs brown, becoming lighter dis- 

 tad; apical half of fore femora and the fore tibiae yellowish; abdomen 

 strongly compressed, shiny, apical segments sparsely finely punctured. 



Described from one specimen taken on Mt. Washington, Xc\\ 

 Hampshire by Mrs. Annie Trumbell Slosson, in honor of whom 

 it is named. 



