Fossorial IJymcnoptcra of North America. 425 



pair brown. Abdomen short conical, witb sutures deeply impressed, 

 coarsely punctured, with broad yellow bands; on the second ring 

 spreading on sides of posterior edge; on 5th ring a short mesial ridge; 

 tip slightly ridged, coarsely punctured. 



Length, .38 inch. 



Massachusetts, (Sanborn). New Jersey, (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.). 



Easily recognized by the spotted wings, not being continuously cloud- 

 ed as usual, its very broad front, unusually wide, black, clypcus with its 

 edge greatly thickened, its filiform antennas and short abdomen, with 

 its tip coarsely punctured, and by its coarsely, but very regularly grooved 

 enclosure. 



Gorytes veimstus, Cresscm. 



G. venustus, Cress., Proc. iv, p. 472. (1865). 

 Colorado Territory, (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.). 



Gorytes abdominalis. Cress. 



G. abdominalis, Cress., Proc. iv, p. 4 74. (1865). 



Col. Terr., (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.). 

 Gorytes rufo-luteus, Pack. 



% and 9 . Body rufous, polished ; head dark brown, with a few 

 very minute punctures, with a short fine rather dense pubescence; orbits 

 and clypeal region yellow, with a long silvery hirsuties, which is want- 

 ing on the front part of the clypeus, the front edge of which is emar- 

 giuate, reddish, labrum yellow, convex, edge setose ; mandibles black 

 on the outer half, inner tooth remote, small ; palpi slender, cylindrical, 

 pale testaceous, antennae with the scape yellowish beneath ; pale red- 

 dish, brownish above towards the tip. Thorax black-brown, prothorax 

 yellow above; a large squarish spot behind the tubercle, and a smaller 

 additional one beneath scutum, reddish, with a yellow stripe next the 

 teguhe which are reddish; a yellow tubercle just beneath the insertion 

 of the wing; posterior half of scutelluin yellow; meta-scutellum and 

 enclosure of the propodeum black-brown, enclosure smooth and po- 

 lished throughout, with a fine hirsuties; on the outside is a large oval 

 lanceolate yellow spot, bordered within and without with red, which ex- 

 pands within, meeting on the mesial furrow which here forms a rather 

 deep short fossa ; flanks black-brown. Wings much clouded, with a 

 purplish tinge, not extending to the outer border; nervures dark, but- 

 costal nervures and pterostigma very pale testaceous; fore coxae yel- 

 lowish above, trochanters almost entirely yellowish ; middle pair black- 

 ish brown above, yellowish beneath; hind pair reddish, blackish above 

 on the basal two-thirds ; tibiae and tarsi throughout yellowish ; hind 

 tibiae a little fuscous above; ungues black. Abdomen polished, red- 



PROCEEDIXGS EXT. SOC. PHILAD. • FEBRUARY, 1867. 



