1909] Brucs, Prel. List Proctotrypoid Hymenoptera of Wash. 117 



body; filiform, none of the flagellar joints toothed or dentate; scape 

 much narrowed basally, twice as long as thick at apex ; flagellar joints 

 long cylindrical and gradually decreasing in length to the penultimate, 

 all of the joints between four and five times as long as thick; last 

 joint one-third longer than the penultimate. Mesonotum elongate, very 

 strongly narrowed anteriorly. Scutellum very highly convex, with a 

 deep broad depression at its base. Metathorax one-half longer than 

 high ; finely rugose-reticulate ; above smoother centrally near the base, 

 with a median carina which extends nearly to the insertion of the 

 abdominal petiole. In profile the metathorax is arcuate above, more 

 sharply bent at the upper part of the posterior slope. Pleurae shining 

 black ; tegulee brown. Abdomen nearly as long as the head and thorax ; 

 petiole as broad as long, finely rugose ; base of second segment with a 

 series of extremely short, more or less irregular longitudinal grooves 

 or pits ; remainder of abdomen shining black ; the apical spines promi- 

 nent, black. Legs reddish yellow or dull ferruginous ; the coxse black, 

 except the tips of the four anterior ones ; femora slender ; claws sim- 

 ple ; inner spur of hind tibia not quite half as long as the metatarsus. 

 Wings hyaline, without trace or with scarcely distinguishable discoidal 

 veins; stigma piceous, three times as long as the petiolate marginal 

 cell. 



Six specimens, all from the Puget Sound region ; three col- 

 lected on the slope of Mount Constitution on Orcas Island, San 

 Juan Co., Wash. 



This species approaches most closely the common eastern 

 P. abruptus Say., differing- by its longer antennae, composed of 

 much more elongate joints, and its entirely different metathoracic 

 sculpture. 



Family BELYTID^. 

 Scorpioteleia mirabilis Ashm. 

 Ashmead, Canad. Entom., Vol. 29, p. 53 (1897). 

 Orcas Island, San Juan, Co., Wash. This most extraordinary 

 genus was first described from Ottawa, Canada, and I have col- 

 lected it also at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



Ismarus nevadensis Kieff. 

 Kieffer, Berliner Entom. Zeitschr., Vol. 50, p. 276 (1905). 

 There is a single specimen of this species recently described 

 by Kieffer from Nevada. It was collected on one of the islands 



