No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 6ll 



P. pedatus Say, 



Female: polished black; antennae one and one-half times the 

 length of the head, flagellar joints quadrate; mesonotum without 

 furrows ; wings hyaline, venation yellowish. Antennae of male 

 three times the length of the head. Length 2.5 mm. 



New Haven, 10 February, 1904. 



Epyris Westwood. 



Head oblong, about as long as wide, maxilla bilobed, mesono- 

 tum with furrows. Abdomen ovate. Legs stout, femora much 

 swollen. 



Key to Species. 



Scutellum with two fovese at base bifoveolatus 



Scutellum with a transverse line at base rufipes 



E. rufipes Say. 



Body without trace of metallic lustre, black ; metathorax with 

 from six to eight longitudinal carinae, mesopleurae foveated; 

 mandibles 5-dentate ; wings sub-hyaline. Length 4 mm. 



Kent, 31 August, 1904 (W. E. B.). 



°E. bifoveolatus Ashmead. 



Black, shining; coxae and legs brownish yellow; metathorax 

 with seven raised lines, the lateral ones abbreviated; tegulae 

 yellow; wings sub-hyaline, the venation yellow. Length 3.5- 

 6 mm. 



Plastanoxus Kieffer. 



"P. chittendeni Ashmead. 



Black, smooth and shining ; the legs piceous black, with white 

 tarsi; scutellum with an impressed line at base, metathorax 

 punctulate above ; wings hyaline, the venation pale. Parasitic 

 on the beetle Cis fuscipes. Length 1.5 mm. 



Holepyris Kieffer. 



°H. subapterus Melander and Brues. 



Brownish black; antennae and legs brown; wings short, not 

 reaching to base of abdomen; metathorax with three median 

 carinae and a lateral one, transversely wrinkled. Length 3 mm. 



