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joint and middle tibiae basally, brownish ; tegulae and middle portion 

 of postscutel almost yellowish translucent. 



Type No. 12794, U. S. National Museum. 



Typelocalitv Essington.Pa., July7,1907.(V.A.E. Daecke). 



Paniscus ocellatus, new species. 



Female. 16 mm. ; tegument pale castaneous to castaneous, orbital 

 margin yellowish, tips of mandibles and edge of ocelli more or less 

 blackish: wings faintly cloudy, transparent, stigma and costa pair, irans- 

 liK-rnt, other veins mostly brownish or almost black: anterior ocellus 

 elliptical, transverse, the shortest distance between the anterior ocellus 

 and the lateral ocellus nearly twice the shortest distance between the 

 anterior ocellus and the nearest point on the eye; antennae 59-jointed, 

 cylindrical, the joints well defined, the fifth to penultimate subequal 

 and longer than wide at base, the apical joint rounded, subconical, a 

 little longer than the penultimate ; discocubital vein with a trace of a 

 stump, recurrent vein interstitial with the second transverse cubitus. 

 aerolet quadrangular, metathorax transversely wrinkled above and 

 with a parenthesis-shaped carina on each side ; abdomen shining and 

 with a bloom-like pubescence that is conspicuous only in certain lights, 

 the rest of the body very similarly pubescent, the pubescence pale. 

 M'rmingly tinged with golden. 



Male. Very like the female, but with a yellow face and 56-jointed 

 antennas; male paratopotype with a distinct stump of a vein. 



Type Female and male and paratopotype, No. 12320, U. 

 S. National Museum. 



7Y/v' locality Wellington, Kans., E. G. Kelley, collector, 

 Webster, No. 5431, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



Pimpla (Epiurus) nigrifrons, new species. 



Differs from inqnisitorif/la in the face of the male being 

 black beneath the antenna?, in the ovipositior being a little 

 longer than the abdomen, and in both sexes having the pol- 

 ished border of the dorsal abdominal segments distinctly 

 transversely striate. Female, 6mm; male, 7 mm. 



7>A -Xo. 12274, U. S. National Museum, J females, 6 

 males. 



'/.Y/V /oi'ii/ity 



Female (Gip. Moth Lab. 1410), paratype, 55 mm., with 

 "vipositor as long as abdomen and with the third dorsal ab- 

 dominal segment provided with a longitudinal furrow like 

 t'ovea: two male paratypcs (Gip. Moth Lab. 1410), 5-6 mm. 



