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linear, the 2nd somewhat flattened, the other segments gradually broader 

 and much compressed towards the apex which is truncate; narrow 

 dorsal surface of the second and following segments, black ; ovipositor 

 exserted about 3 lines, rufous, valves black. Length 7 lines; expanse 

 of wings 8 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. 2 9,1 S, specimens. 



Readily distinguishable from the preceding species by the metathorax 

 having only a central black line, and by the different color of the hind 

 legs. 



Eiphosoma annulata. n. sp. 



Yellow; vertex, occiput, antennae, three stripes on mesothorax, sutures of and 

 an oblique line on pleura, three lines on metathorax, spot on posterior coxae, 

 their trochanters, base of their femora, and their tibiae and tarsi, black or black- 

 ish ; abdomen tinged with ferruginous, apical half of the 1st and most of the 

 2nd segments dusky in 9 • all the segments annulated with blackish in £ ; 

 wings hyaline; areolet minute, petiolated. 



Female. — Head yellow ; a large spot on the vertex enclosing ocelli 

 and most of the occiput, black ; antennae rather more than half the 

 length of the body, blackish, the two basal joints yellowish. Thorax 

 yellow, sometimes tinged with ferruginous, shining; mesothorax densely 

 and finely punctured, with three broad, longitudinal, black stripes, the 

 central one entire, the lateral ones abbreviated in front; pleura with 

 an oblique, rather broad, black, depressed stripe on each side, confluent 

 with a rather large black spot beneath the wings, which is again con- 

 fluent with a black stripe extending down on the suture between the 

 pleura and pectus; the suture between the pleura and metathorax also 

 blackish; scutellum convex, polished, yellow, the space around it black- 

 ish; metathorax yellow, black at base, rather broadly and deeply exca- 

 vated on the disk, the excavated space black, as well as a stripe on 

 each side, broad at base, and abbreviated posteriorly ; on each side at 

 base there is a semicircular carina, not well defined. Wings purely 

 hyaline, iridescent; nervures and stigma fuscous; areolet minute, petio- 

 lated, slightly oblique. Legs yellow ; posterior coxas yellow, with a 

 large exterior black spot, their trochanters black, yellowish at tip, 

 their femora fulvous, blackish at base and near the tip, their tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish, the former with a pale annul us about the middle. Ab- 

 domen very long and slender, honey -yellow; apical half of 1st segment, 

 except extreme tip, the 2nd segment except tip and lateral middle, and 

 disk of the 3rd segment obscurely, dusky ; ovipositor about half the 

 length of the abdomen, rufous, valves blackish. Length 5 lines; ex- 

 panse of wings 5 s lines. 



