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down the middle, and another on each side over the base of the wings; 

 tegulse with a large blackish spot ; sutures of the pleura, blackish ; 

 metathorax smooth and polished, sides abruptly truncate, extreme base, 

 and the tip at the insertion of the abdomen, blackish. Wings ample, 

 yellowish-hyaline ; uervures and stigma fuscous ; areolet small, subtri- 

 angular. Legs rather stout, yellow, the posterior trochanters and femora 

 rufous, tips of the four anterior tarsi, blackish. Abdomen polished, 

 dorsal surface of the three basal segments uneven, that of the basal 

 segment grooved on each side and elevated in the middle which has also 

 a shallow groove, yellow, the base of all the segments broadly black, 

 those on the apical segments shading into brown; ovipositor stout, black, 

 exserted about 1] line. Length 62 lines; expanse of wings 12 lines. 

 Collection.- — -Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Pinipla obscurata. u. sp. 



Yellowish ; antennae yellowish-brown, 3rd joint longer than the 4th: meso- 

 thorax with three brown stripes; abdomen stained with dusky; wings yellow- 

 ish-hyaline; legs bright yellow. 



Female. — Yellowish, shining; antennae as long as the body, yellow- 

 ish-brown, the basal joint yellow, the 3rd joint one-third longer than 

 the 4th as in cubensis. Thorax: mesothorax with three broad brown 

 longitudinal stripes ; the sutures between the pectus and pleura and 

 between the pleura and metathorax, blackish ; base of metathorax also 

 blackish. Wings yellowish-hyaline, the apical margins dusky; nervures 

 ami stigma pale ferruginous; areolet small, subtriangular. Legs bright 

 yellow, tips of the tarsi slightly dusky. Abdomen shining, obscure 

 yellowish, the base of the segments blackish, the third and three follow- 

 ing segments almost entirely dusky, with a slight purplish iridescence 

 in certain lights, these segments are densely and rather deeply punc- 

 tured; basal segment sculptured as in cubensis; ovipositor stout, black, 

 exserted about 1? line. Length 5.} lines; expanse of wings 10 lines. 

 Collection. — Dr. J. Griindlach. One specimen. 



Closely allied to P. cubensis, but the abdomen is not so regularly 

 colored and the segments are distinctly and deeply punctured, while 

 those of cubensis are smooth and impunctured. 



Pimpla terminalis, n. sp. 



Yellow : antennfe black, 3rd joint as long as the 1st and 2nd together; meso- 

 thorax with a dorsal brown stripe; base of metathorax and of all the abdominal 

 segments, black; wings yellowish-hyaline, with a fuscous spot at tip. 



Female. — Yellow, shining; face pale yellow, tips of mandibles black; 

 antennae as long as the body, black, rufous at base, basal joint beneath 

 yellow, 3rd joint as long as the 1st and 2nd joints together, the 4th 

 joint about two-thirds the length of the 3rd, and equal with the follow- 



