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Described from one 9 specimen from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor), and 

 named after Mr. W. H. Ashmead, as a slight recognition of the invaluable 

 assistance which I have received from him in my studies of the Canadian 

 hymenoptera. He kindly examined this species, and states that it 

 "comes nearest to Cryptiis velox, Cr, judging from description. I have 

 another specimen in my collection from Colorado, but with the ovipositor 

 a little shorter than in your specimen." It differs, however, from C. velox 

 (to which I refer a species taken at Ottawa) in the entirely red legs, the 

 darker wings with narrower areolet, the finer sculpture of metathorax, the 

 shorter ovipositor with non-pubescent valves, etc., although the general 

 appearance of the two species is much the same. 



Hemiteles occidentalis, n. sp. 



Female — Length, 5 mm. Black, with rufous abdomen and legs. Face 

 subtuberculate ; edge of clypeus and mandibles rufous, palpi pale ; 

 antennce piceous, the scape and basal joints of flagellum partly rufous. 

 Metathorax areolated ; legs, including coxie, rufous, also the tegulje. 

 Abdomen polished ; the petiole black, and terminal segments dusky ; 

 ovipositor as long as abdomen, sheaths piceous. 



Described from one 9 specimen from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor.) 



Hemiteles piceiventris, n. sp. 



Female— Length, 3.5 mm. Black, with piceous abdomen and pale 

 legs. Head finely punctulate above ; palpi pale, antennre piceous, 23- 

 jointed. Thorax shining, the mesonotum finely punctulate, metathorax not 

 spined, carinje feeble ; legs yellowish, the coxce and posterior tarsi almost 

 piceous ; tegul^ pale, nervures and stigma brownish. Abdomen piceous, 

  shining, the first and second segments finely punctulate, ovipositor 

 scarcely as long as abdomen. 



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



Cremnodes canadensis, n. sp. 



Female — Length, 4.5 mm. Rufo-testaceous. Head viewed from 

 above sub-quadrate, the face swollen as in Exochus, punctulate beneath 

 antennfe ; eyes small ; antennae i8-jointed, almost as long as body and 

 moderately robust. Thorax more strongly constricted than in Pezomachus; 

 metathorax sharply truncate and ihe angles strongly spined. Abdomen 

 with the first segment slender, not expanded posteriorly, remaining seg- 

 ments compressed laterally, truncate at apex and strongly polished, the 

 second more than twice as long as all the others ; ovipositor very short. 



