332 BRUES. 



thick and nearly twice as long as those near the middle of the flagellum ; 

 following joints growing shorter and more slender; the penultimate 

 one being twice as long as thick; each antenna inserted on a small 

 tubercle. Surface of head smooth and polished. Thorax high, the 

 mesopleura very large; above, it is quite distinctly wider than the head. 

 Mesonotum trilobed, its crenulate furrows concurrent considerably 

 before the base of the scutellum ; surface of mesonotum shining, almost 

 smooth. Propodeum rugose and partially areola ted by a median 

 carina at base that divides into two which enclose an area defining the 

 posterior slope. Abdomen but little longer than the thorax, subpetio- 

 late; spiracles of first segment placed a short distance before its middle; 

 first segment with a pair of discal carina? convergent behind, and a 

 lateral carina including the spiracle. Second segment as long as the 

 first, but much broader; its surface smooth; following segments each 

 but little more than one-half as long as the second; tip of abdomen 

 bent down. Legs slender, the posterior tibire widened toward the 

 apex; hind tibial spurs equal, less than one-half as long as the meta- 

 tarsus. Stigma lanceolate oval, the radius originating beyond its 

 middle and extending to the tip of the wing, its second section straight; 

 basal vein originating in the costa; submedian cell considerably longer 

 than the median ; recurrent nervure received beyond the middle of the 

 first cubital cell; second cubital as long on its cubital side as the dis- 

 tance between the first transverse cubitus and the recurrent nervure, 

 cell much narrowed above, its upper less than half as long as its lower 

 side; second discoidal cell twice as long as high; discoidal nervure 

 broken far below the middle. 



One specimen No. B 193 19. 



The species is a typical representative of this genus which is at the 

 present time represented in Europe. Two related genera, Diospilus 

 and Dyscoletes have been found in the American tertiaries at Floris- 

 sant. 



Family ICHXEUMOXID.F. 



Astiphromma brischkei sp. now 



cf . Length 9 mm. A large slender species with the antenna? dis- 

 tinctly thickened near the apex. Head two and one-half times as 

 broad as thick, with the eyes prominently projecting above its surface. 

 Ocelli large and prominent, the lateral ones closer together than to the 

 eye-margin. Antenna? 30-jointed, almost reaching to the tip of the 

 abdomen, quite slender basally, but very perceptibly thickened from 



