234 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



hind coxae, trochanters, and femora black or blackish, their 

 tibiae pale brown beneath, dark brown above, their tarsi 

 dark brown or dusky; exserted portion of ovipositor nearly 

 as long as abdomen; rest of body mostly black or entirely 



black. Length 2.5 mm. (female) mohawkorum 



Apex of abdomen without processes; head and thorax mostly 

 black; coxae and trochanters brown; fore and mid legs 

 mostly brownish stramineous, hind legs with rather red- 

 dish femora and rather dusky tibiae and tarsi; abdomen 

 .a kind of maroon color throughout; exserted portion of 

 ovipositor nearly two-thirds length of abdomen. Length 

 3.5 mm. (female) ". wampanoagorum 



*U. mohawkorum Viereck (new species). 

 Related to U. femoratus Crawford. 

 Type locality: New Haven, 6 July, 1904 (H. L. V.). 



*U, wampanoagorum Viereck (new species). 

 Related to U. robiistus Ashmead. 

 Type locality: New Haven, 19 July, 1904 (P. L. B.). 



Triaspis Haliday. 

 Sigalphus Authors, not Latreille. 



°T. curculionis (Fitch). 



Length 3.7-4 mm. ; black ; labrum and mandibles brown, palpi 

 pale yellowish ; antennae with scape and pedicel reddish, re- 

 mainder of antennae black or dark brown; joints three to ten of 

 antennae sometimes with a reddish tinge; legs pale reddish, with 

 the upper part of hind tibiae and tarsi and sometimes the hind 

 femora dusky; wings subhyaline, veins pale reddish, stigma 

 black ; ovipositor longer than the abdomen. 



Larva white with translucent yellowish mottlings. Pupa 

 whitish, length 4.2 mm. ; cocoons composed of one layer of closely 

 woven yellow silk. 



Parasitic on the plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar) and 

 on the potato-stalk weevil. (For an illustration see Chittenden, 

 "Insects Injurious to Vegetables," p. 223, Fig. 143.) 

 °T. curculionis, var. rufa Riley. 



Head, thorax, and most of first abdominal segment entirely 

 reddish ; mid and hind tibiae dusky ; ovipositor three times as 

 long as the abdomen. 



