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prothorax, which is posteriorly limited by the anterior coxae. Beak medi- 

 anly and laterally carinate to a cross between the bases of the antennal 

 scapes. Scrobes deep and narrow from apex near tip of beak almost to 

 eyes, then sharply deflected and broader in front of eyes. Scape stout, 

 clavate. Funicle 7-jointed, the last joint apparently a part of the club. 

 Club 4-jointed. Head at base of beak sinuately impressed, with swellings 

 above the eyes. Prothorax very irregularly sculptured but with a deep 

 median furrow widened angularly at middle and also behind. Strial punc- 

 tation deep but irregular. Intervals tumid behind. Legs stout. Tarsi 

 with third joint not widely bilobed; tarsal claws simple. First and second 

 abdominal segments long; third and fourth shorter than fifth. 



A NEW BRACONID FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



BY S. A. ROHWEE, Bureau of Entomology. 

 Monogonogastra wolcottii, new species. 



In Szepligetti's arrangement this species falls next to meridensis. 

 The following description will show how different it is. In Cam- 

 eron's list of species it falls next to Iphiaulax hector Cameron, 

 but is at once separated from that species by the suture-formed 

 articulations being striate. It resembles Cameron's species, how- 

 ever, in general habitus and color. 



Female. Length 14 mm., length of the ovipositor 12 mm. Antennae 

 extending back beyond the apex of the third tergite; head shining, front 

 depressed between the ocelli and the antennae; a strong carina from the 

 anterior ocellus to the bases of the antennae; ocelli surrounded by a deep 

 furrow, posteriorly bottom of the furrow is granular; postocellar line dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the ocellocular line; thorax shining, the scutellum 

 raised slightly above the level of the scutum; first tergite with the embossed 

 area broadening apically into a rounded spade-like area the apex of which 

 is obtusely rounded; embossed area of the second tergite tiangular, not 

 reaching apex, defined laterally by shallow, broad, foveolate furrows; 

 suture-formed articulations foveolate; tergites shining, polished; apical 

 sternite extending more than the width of the femora beyond the apex 

 of the abdomen. Rufo-ferruginous; head except the palpi, antennae and 

 sheath of the ovipositor black; posterior tarsi dusky; wings yellowish 

 hyaline basad of the basal vein, beyond dark brown, a transverse yellow 

 band beneath the stigma; venation dark brown; stigma bright yellow. 



Golden Fleece, Demerara, South America. Described from 

 one female collected March 13, 1913, by G. E. Bodkin and G. N. 

 Wolcott. 



Named for G. N. Wolcott. 



Type: Cat. No. 16020 U. S. N. M. 



Actual date of issue October 2, 1913. 



