No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 313 



Length 7 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor a little longer 

 than body; abdomen narrowly banded with yellow at 

 apex of some of dorsal segments; fore and mid coxae 

 mostly yellow; hind coxae black, striped with yellow; tro- 

 chanters mostly yellow; femora and tibiae mostly brown- 

 ish stramineous; hind femora with an especially dark 

 brown annulus at apex, fore tarsi stramineous; middle tarsi 

 brownish stramineous; hind tarsi mostly brown mirabilis 



*M. pulcherrimus Cresson. 



Type locality: Connecticut (E. N.). 



M. superbus Provancher, PI. ix, Fig. 3. 



Torrington, 7 July, 1905 (W. E, B.), at flowers of manna 

 grass (Glyceria) ; Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.), on flow- 

 ers of water hemlock (Cicuta maculata). 



M. elegans Cresson. 



West Thompson, 12 July, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



°M. (Bathycetes) scutellaris Cresson. 

 °M. (Asphragis) mirabilis Cresson. 



Lissonota Gravenhorst. 



Lampronota Curtis. 



Key to Species. 



1. Abdomen entirely or almost entirely black above 2 



Abdomen above more or less pale colored 7 



2. Hind coxae reddish 3 



Hind coxae practically entirely black; hind legs with a broad 



white annulus at bases of their tibiae; face and tegulae 

 white. Length 11-12 mm tegularis 



3. Pleurae unicolorous 4 



Pleurae variegated with a yellow or reddish mark before mid 



coxae; scutel more or less whitish 6 



4. Pleurae and scutel black; abdomen punctate 5 



Pleurae and scutel whitish. Length 10 mm pulchella 



5. Mesonotum with its lateral margin before tegulae more or less 



yellow; hind femora not black at tips; dorsal abdominal 

 segments entirely black; length 9 mm.; exserted portion 



of ovipositor as long as or longer than abdomen insita 



Mesonotum black, immaculate; length 6-8 mm.; exserted por- 

 tion of ovipositor as long as or longer than abdomen punctulata 



6. Length 12-13 mm.; areolet petiolated; abdomen coarsely 



punctate; length of exserted portion of ovipositor about 



as in insita cressoni 



