158 FAMILY EVANIID^. 



Hyptia reticulata Say. 



(Fig. 7.) 

 1835. Bruchygaster reticidata Say, Bost. Joiiru. Nat. Hist., i. p. 224. 

 1887 ? Hyptia reticulata Cresson, List, Hymen. N. A., p. 182. 

 1887 ? Hyptia soror Scliletterer, Ann. k. k. nath. Hofni., Wien, iv, p. 330. 



%, 9- — Black; anterior tibise testaceous. Head and body clothed with com- 

 paratively long white hairs. Head seen from above transverse-qnadrate ; the 

 space behind the eyes medium, not inflated laterally; the posterior angles 

 slightly rounded ; the anterior edge between the eyes convex, eraarginate me- 

 sally. Profile narrowed in front above the eye, widest at the antennse; eye 

 slightly oblique; forehead slightly convex, almost flat ; temples moderately nar- 

 row above, more than twice as wide at the base of the eyes ; malar space (.48 mm.) 

 one-half as long as the eyes (.96 mm.) ; cheeks incurved so that the base of the 

 mandibles is not visible from the profile. Face from in front almost round ; no 

 antennal basin ; mandibles deeply punctured at base, their mesal portion red ; 

 .77 mm. from base to base; palpi pale; clypeus produced mesally into a round 

 point, the lateral angles rounded ; separated laterally by a short poorly defined 

 suture; the cheeks are separated from the face by a distinct carina extending 

 from the upper angle of the base of the mandibles outward to the base of the 

 eyes, then inward parallel to and but slightly separated from the inner margin 

 of the eye to just above the altitude of the insertion of the autennje; the middle 

 of the face and the clypeus form a gibbous area bounded by the lateral grooves 

 of the clypeus; face, forehead, vertex, temples and cheeks coarsely, closely and 

 umbilicately jiunctuied, the punctures rarely confluent, smaller around the base 

 of the antennre, coarsest on the temples and vertex ; posterior margin of the head 

 sharp, subearinate; no carina between the antennae; posterior ocelli .31 mm, 

 apart, .12 mm. from the compound eyes, slightly below the middle of the latter; 

 antennae thickened mesally ; scape one-quarter as long as the flagellum, one-half 

 longer than joints 3+4 ; pedicel two-fifths as long as the first joint of the flagel- 

 lum. Alitrunk short and stout; length 2.5 mm.; width 1.9 mm.; height 2.2 mm. 

 Pronotum not forming a visible collar; humeral angles sharp ; mesonotum and 

 scutellnm strongly convex, without any sign of anterior, lateral, or parapsidal 

 grooves; an indistinct transverse suture between the mesonotum and scutellum ; 

 these closely, coarsely and umbilicately punctured, the punctures not confluent ; 

 vertical part of the pronotum impunctate, polished, a few transverse wrinkles on 

 its postero-lateral edges, in front of the teguUe; the upjier part of the mesopleurse 

 is a large, highly polished, impuiictured, depressed, rhomboidal area, with a few 

 irregular punctures and grooves in the centre, ending below in an oblique depres- 

 sion, beyond which the niesoi)leurffi are distinctly swollen in nn oblique direction 

 toward the coxse, this swelling and the niesoventer sprinkled with a few smaller 

 round punctures, between which are a considerable number of minute punctula- 

 lions; metaventer coarsely, closely and umbilicately punctate; propodeum shal- 

 lowly reticulate, the reticulations lengthened on the side (Fig. 7) ; above the 

 petiole the propodeum is coarsely punctate. Middle coxae .19 mm. apart, .84 

 mm. from the front and .96 mm. from the hind coxie, the latter .24 nini. apart; 

 furcula short, the prongs consisting of mere rounded knobs. 



The tarsal spur is one-half the length of the metatarsus, the latter is one-third 

 longer than joints 2 4 united ; the claws are of moderate size, slender, incuiveil. 



