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punctures which are separated by about twice the width of a 

 puncture; the clypeus, the sides, the front and occiput shining, 

 impunctate or with very sparse, separated punctures: third an- 

 tennal joint but little longer than the fourth; mesonotum shining, 

 practically impunctate; notauli strongly foveolate; the suture 

 between the scutum and scutellum with three strong rugae; 

 propodeum strongly reticulate, the dorsal surface with two narrow, 

 transverse impressions; first tergite without sculpture. Black; 

 head and thorax densely clothed with long white hair; legs rufous, 

 the bases of the four anterior femora and the posterior tibiae 

 piceous; abdomen rufous; wings dusky hyaline, venation black. 



Morgantown, West Virginia. Described from two females 

 (one type) collected by A. D. Hopkins, and recorded under W. Va. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station Number Hopk. W. Va. 77906, 

 and from one female (paratype) from Tryon, North Carolina, 

 collected by W. F. Fiske, and recorded under Bureau of Entomo- 

 logy Number Hopk. U. S. 1645c. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18277, U. S. N. M. 



Capitonius caryae, new species. 



Female. — Length 5.5 mm. Closely allied to erythrogastra, but 

 may be distinguished from that species by the characters in the 

 foregoing table, in having the propodeum rufous, the legs black 

 except the rufous hind femora. 



Tryon, North Carolira. Described from two females recorded 

 under Bureau of Entomology Number Hopk. U. S. 3654j, which 

 refers to a note stating that this species is probably parasitic on 

 Synoxylon in hickory, material collected and reared by W. F. Fiske. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18278, U. S. N. M. 



Capitonius sanguiniventris (Ashmead). 



Promachus sanguiniventris Ashmead — Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 



Vol. II, p. 653. 



Capitonius saperdae (Ashmead). 



Promachus s iperdce Ashmead — Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus., 1888, Vol. 



1 1 , p. 652. (A brief reference with a 

 negative description.) 



