G PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL. MUSEUM. vol. 61. 



ATRACTODES ASHMEADI, new species. 



" Asyncrita coinpressa Ashni.," Slosson, Ent. News, vol. 8, 1S97, p. 237. 



Differs from AsyncHta Foerster in not having the second tergite 

 compressed nor the postpetiole polished and in having the postpetiole 

 much wider than the petiole. 



Female. — Length. 5.75 mm. ; antennae, 3 mm. 



Head half as thick antero-posteriorly as broad, broad behind eyes, 

 temples strongly convex, polished; face opaque rugulose-punctate, 

 medially elevated, scarcely half as long as wide; eyes parallel; 

 clypeus less than half as long as broad, deeply separated at sides, 

 hardly separated in middle, coarsely and sparsely punctate, medially 

 slightly, roundly protuberant ; malar space scarcely as long as basal 

 width of mandible; antennae slender, basal joint of flagellum three 

 times as long as thick, others gradually shorter to subapical ones, 

 which are barely longer than thick ; mesoscutum subpolished, finely 

 coriaceous mediall}^, sparsely punctate laterally, notauli distinct an- 

 teriorly; scutellum polished, sparsely punctate; pronotum laterally 

 and mesopleurum obliquely striato-coriaceous ; metapleurum and 

 propodeum finely coriaceous, latter more or less rugulosely so, median 

 apical area reaching very nearly to base, wider at base than at apex 

 and slightly concave; areolet small, second intercubitus largely 

 bullated but distinct, recurrent before middle; abdomen about a 

 third longer than head and thorax ; first tergite subopaque coriaceous, 

 postpetiole twice as wide as petiole, medially concave; abdomen 

 otherwise polished ; second tergite with epipleural fold extending to 

 apex; compression of abdomen beginning behind base of second 

 tergite. 



Black; scape and clypeus dark rufous, mandibles paler; tegulae 

 testaceous ; legs beyond coxae dull ruf o-testaceous, hind tibia slightly 

 and all tarsi fuscous; wings hyaline, venation dark brownish; ab- 

 domen bej'Ond first tergite piceous. 



Type locality. — Alpine region of Mount Washington, New Hamp- 

 shire. 



Type.— Cut. No. 25010, U.S.N.M. 



One specimen taken by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. 



Ashmead's name for this species is not employed because it was 

 previously used by Cresson for Sfilpnus compressus., which is also an 

 Atractodes. 



•ATRACTODES COMPRESSUS (Cresson). 



Stilpnns compressus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliila., vol. 10, 1865. p. 260. 



Not known from Mount Washington, but included here to indicate 

 its proper generic position. 



