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palpi pale ; antennae slender, shorter than the abdomen. Thorax 

 polished, with faint, sparse punctures on mesonotum and pectus ; meta- 

 thorax more coarsely punctate, feebly sulcate, the carinae obsolete; 

 tegulfe, with a brief line before, white; legs, including coxae, rufous; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi brownish ; wings hyaline, iridescent, areolet 

 sub-triangular. Abdomen slender, coarsely punctured; first segment 

 carinate and sulcate only at base ; segments 2-4 nearly twice as long as 

 the first, which is shorter than fifth ; apical third of segments 2-6 polished 

 and transversely wrinkled; ovipositor rufous, twice as long as the 

 abdomen ; sheaths black, coarsely pubescent. 



Male— Length, 8 mm. Differs from ? in being so much smaller and 

 in having the legs somewhat paler. The anterior cox^e and trochanters, 

 a spot on intermediate, and a small annulus at base of posterior tibis, 

 white. Abdomen slender, segments of almost equal length. 



Described from three ? and one $ specimens from Victoria, V. I. 

 (Taylor.) The diminutive $ may belong to a different species, 

 but it resembles this much more closely than it does any other species 

 from British Columbia. 



Ephialtes vancouverensis, n. sp. 



Female— Length, 16 mm., with ovipositor 30 mm. Black, with rufous 

 legs. Head finely punctulate ; face sericeous, edge of clypeus and tips of 

 mandibles rufous, palpi white; antennas slender, 10 mm. long. Thorax 

 finely sculptured ; mesonotum finely, transversely rugulose, pleurae densely 

 punctate ; lateral margin of prothorax yellow, with a highly polished 

 groove above; metathorax closely punctured, feebly sulcate, carinae 

 obsolete ; four anterior legs, including coxae, yellowish ; the intermediate 

 with the femora and tibiae externally rufous, and the tarsi brownish ; 

 posterior coxae, trochanters and femora rufous, the tibiae and tarsi black ; 

 wings hyahne, stigma and nervures black, areolet sub-triangular and sub- 

 petiolate. Abdomen finely sculptured and not tuberculate, except 

 obsoletely on the basal segments ; first slightly longer than second, not 

 carinate or sulcate ; three following segments of equal length, remaining 

 segments gradually shorter and more finely punctulate ; ovipositor as long 

 as body, red, with black, finely pubescent, sheaths. 



Described from one ? specimen from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor.) 



