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of abdomen narrowly ovate, second segment concealing all the others, 

 the ovipositor barely projecting beyond its tip. Legs rather stout, all 

 the femora and the posterior tibiae clavate, tips of posterior tibias and 

 their tarsi black; posterior tibiae with two short, subequal spurs. 

 Wings hyaline, with dark stigma and pale venation. Stigma large and 

 broadly ovate, as long as the marginal cell. Radial vein bent at a 

 right angle, its second section regularly arcuate. First transverse 

 cubitus as long as the first section of the cubitus, second very short, 

 almost interstitial with the first section of the radius ; submedian cell 

 a little longer than the median, second cubital cell two and one-half 

 times as long as wide. 



Helorimorpha melanderi sp. nov. 



Described from one female, Woods Hole, Mass. (A. L. 

 Melander) July 21, 1902. 



The present species differs from H. egregia Schmied. by its 

 honey-yellow thorax and abdomen, and more strongly clavate 

 abdominal petiole. The abdomen is also less distinctly truncate 

 and the wing venation slightly different. 



The genus Helorimorpha is the representative of a truly re- 

 markable group and reminds one strongly of certain Euphor- 

 inse, except for the well developed wing venation, longer sec- 

 ond abdominal segment, and more distinctly moniliform an- 

 tennae. I cannot but think that it must be an archaic form re- 

 lated to the stock from which the modern Euphorin?e have de- 

 veloped. In fact, I have a typical member of the Euphorinse, 

 probably representing an undescribed genus with an abdomen 

 almost exactly like that of Helorimorpha. 



