154 FAMILY kvaniid.t:. 



Body short and stout. Proiiotuni not forniino; a visible rollar; litniifiiil angles 

 rounded off; niesouotuni and scutellum strongly convex, without jiarapsidHl. 

 lateral or anterior grooves; a straight transverse suture between the niesotuni 

 and scutellum; vertical part of the pronotuni smooth, ]iolished and impunctate; 

 the polished area on the niesopleurge is irregular, extending two-thiidsof tlie 

 way to the coxte, broken by a few confluent pits in the centre; the groove not 

 very deep nor prolonged to the coxai ; the anterior swelling full. s]iaringly punc- 

 tured with large shallow round punctures, among which are a few minute punc- 

 tulations; mesoventer similarly punctured ; nietaventei' more coarsely jiunctured, 

 but the punctures obscured by the vestiture; two distinct oblique carinte on the 

 metapleuiie (Fig. 8), the first pi-ominent and sharp, with a depressed broad fossa 

 behind it; the reticulations between the two caiiiise are four times as long as 

 broad, rather regularly arranged, with a few irregular cross-pieces; behind the 

 second carina the reticulations at the sides are square, the mesal ones elongated, 

 forming a loughly triangular area outside of which the reticulations on the pro- 

 podeum are of moderate size and depth and hexagonal in shape ; above the petiole 

 the propodeum is coarsely punctate. Middle coxse far apart, nearer to the hind 

 than to the front pair; furcula with very short rounded lobes. 



The tarsal spur is one-half the length of the metatarsus; tihige minutely 

 spined. Wings hyaline. 



Petiole more or less smooth, polished, with a few punctures, these somewhat 

 dilated and oblique on the sides, a few short oblique ridges at the base of the 

 sides, but not appearing obliquely or longitudinally grooved or striate. Abdo- 

 men orbicular, much less compressed than is usual in the subfamily, smooth, 

 polished. Length 7.5 mm. 



This is the largest species of Hyptia tliat I have seen. It is about 

 equal in size to a small specimen of" JEvania appendigaster. 

 Hah. — New York (Ithaca, J. H Comstock). 

 Type. — One female, in the collection of Cornell University. 



Kyptia thoraeicst Bhmchard. 

 (Fig. 6.) 



1840. Evnnid ihoracica Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Insec, iii, p. 299. 



1841. Hi/ptiam thoracicnm Shuckard. Entom., p. 120. 

 1844. Evania ihoracica Guerin, Rev. Zool. Soc. Cuv., ]). 39. 



1851. Evania doraalis Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (2), i, j). 214 (new name 



for Ihoracica Blanchaid). 

 1887. Hypiia Ihoracica Cresson, List Hymen. N. A., p. 182. 



'J, , 9 . — Dark red; abdomen, petiole, legs, venter and anteunse black; meta- 

 pleurte and forehead dark. Spai'ingly clothed with white hairs. Head seen 

 from above transverse, the eyes rather prominent, very little space behind them, 

 the anterior edge between them very slightly convex, the posterior margin 

 slightly concave, reflexed. Profile irregular, narrow and pointed above, widest 

 below the antennse ; forehead flat ; eyes oblique ; temples narrow above, consider- 

 ably widened below; malar space (.48 mm.) one-third tlie length of the eye (1.44 

 mm.); cheeks incurved. Face from in front equilaterally triangular, with 

 rounded basal corners; n)andibles deeply punctuied at their base, their tijis red, 

 .79 mm. from base to base; palpi dark; clypeus sejiarated laterally by a short 



