3l6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



°A. nigrita Walsh. 

 °A. ventralis Cresson. 



Glypta Gravenhorst. 

 Key to Species. 



1. Black, or black and reddish stramineous and reddish with 



pale markings 2 



Black, variegated with white; length 7 mm.; face, including 

 mandibles, more or less white; palpi, ventrum and sides of 

 thorax, tegulae, clypeus, scutel, and postscutel, white; rest 

 of thorax above, abdomen beneath, and its dorsal seg- 

 ments at base and apex, all more or less white; coxae and 

 trochanters of fore and mid legs, and most of hind tarsi, 

 white; rest of legs mostly yellowish red; wings hyaline, 

 veins and stigma dark; exserted portion of ovipositor as 

 long as abdomen phoxopteridis 



2. Body above almost entirely black 3 



Body above extensively maculated with luteous or whitish; 



thorax above mostly reddish stramineous; head mostly 

 luteous; abdomen banded; fore and mid legs stramineous; 

 hind legs varicolored, their tibiae each with two luteous 

 annuli; first tarsal joint of hind legs with a basal luteous 

 annulus; length 5-10 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor 

 about three-fourths the length of abdomen scitula 



3. Thorax beneath more or less reddish 4 



Thorax black, except tubercles and tegulae, which are yellow- 

 ish; antennae dark brown; legs mostly reddish stramineous; 

 hind femora and tibiae brown at apex; the latter brown 

 above and with a brown annulus separated from the base 



by a yellowish annulus, greater part of their middle half 

 yellowish; tarsi of hind legs brown, with first, second, and 

 third joints yellowish at base; propodeum not areolated; 

 length 7-8 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor a little 

 longer than abdomen erratica 



4. Legs in color about as in erratica, but otherwise differing 



from that species and vulgaris S 



Legs nearly the same color as in erratica; exserted portion of 

 ovipositor longer than abdomen; tegulae and tubercles 

 yellow; scutel pale. Length 6.5 mm vulgaris 



5. Length less than 10 mm 6 



Length 10 mm.; hind legs reddish stramineous or reddish, 



with apex of femora brownish, tibiae mostly dark brown, 

 partly dark reddish, tarsi all dark brown; exserted portion 

 of ovipositor about as long as abdomen .simplicipes 



6. Thorax with pronotum yellowish; length 7.5 mm.; exserted 



portion of ovipositor about 7.5 mm. long animosa 



