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latter smooth, without any transverse carina. Wings yellowish-hyaline, 

 slightly dusky at tips ; nervures fuscous, stigma fulvous; areolet small, 

 subtriangular. Legs yellow; the posterior femora, apical half of their 

 tibiae and their tarsi, rufous. Abdomen robust, somewhat shining, densely 

 and finely punctured, the three first segments yellow, with their base 

 broadly dark brown; terminal segment also yellow; remaining segments 

 rufous, the 4th and 5th somewhat brownish at base ; basal segment 

 grooved on each side and elevated in the middle which is also grooved ; 

 ovipositor stout, black, exserted about 1| line. Length 6 lines; ex- 

 panse of wings 12 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. (xundlaeh. One specimen. 



Pimpla bicincta, n. sp. 



Yellow: antennae brown-black ; mesotborax with three brown stripes ; hind 

 legs and apical half of abdomen reddish-brown; two basal segments of abdomen 

 blackish, banded with yellow; wings yellowish-hyaline. 



Female. — Yellow; on the vertex on each side of the ocelli, a brown 

 spot ; tips of the mandibles black ; antennas as long as the body, rather 

 stout, brown-black above, apical joint and beneath reddish-brown, basal 

 joint beneath yellowish, the joints as in terminalis. Thorax: mesotho- 

 rax with three longitudinal, brown stripes ; the sutures between the 

 pectus, pleura and metathorax. and the extreme base of the latter, black ; 

 metathorax sculptured as in terminalis. Wings ample, yellowish-hya- 

 line, with a fuscous spot at the tip of the marginal cell ; nervures fus- 

 cous, stigma fulvous; areolet subtriangular, or obliquely subquadrate. 

 Legs yellow; the posterior pair, with their coxae, reddish-brown, the 

 two apical joints of the their tarsi black, the claws of the remaining 

 tarsi also black. Abdomen polished, reddish-brown, the two basal seg- 

 ments blackish, each with a broad yellow band at tip; ovipositor slen- 

 der, rufous, as long as the abdomen, valves yellowish, tipped with black- 

 ish. Length 4 lines ; expanse of wings 9 lines. 

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



Genus EPHIALTES, Grav. 

 Ephialtes rufescens, n. s}3. 



Rufous, shining; antennae blackish: wings fuscous; ovipositor blackish, 

 longer than the body. 



Female. — Rufous, shining; head with the vertex and tips of mandi- 

 bles black; antennae nearly as long as the body, entirely black. Thorax 

 with the dorsal lines well impressed, the middle lobe prominent; meta- 

 thorax smooth and polished. Wings dark fusco-hyaline, slightly pale 

 on the apical margin; nervures and stigma black, areolet triangular, 

 subpetiolated. Legs rufous, the tarsi, especially the posterior pair. 



