ABT. 15. KEVISION OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES — MUESEBECK. 65 



late longitudinal depression, smooth and highly polished above it; 

 propodeum short, rather flat, rugulose, with a distinct median longi- 

 tudinal carina; stigma and metacarpus of about equal length; radius 

 perpendicular to anterior margin of stigma and much longer than 

 first intercubitus ; posterior femora rather large ; inner spur of poste- 

 rior tibiae a little longer than the outer and very nearly half as 

 long as the metatarsus; abdomen shorter than the thorax; first dor- 

 sal abdominal plate broadest at base, narrowing strongly toward 

 apex, where it is hardly half as broad as at base, about twice as long 

 as broad at base, and finely rugulose and opaque; second dorsal plate 

 triangular, as broad at base as first plate is broad at apex, twice as 

 long down the middle and four times as broad at apex as broad at 

 base, opaque, minutely granular on basal half, finely striate on the 

 apical half; third tergite opaque and indistinctly alutaceous; re- 

 mainder of dorsum of abdomen smooth and shining. Eeddish-black ; 

 head, including antennae, reddish; thorax black, more or less dark 

 reddish on the sides and on propodeum; tegulae testaceous; wings 

 hyaline, veins and stigma yellowish to pale yellowish-brown; fove 

 and middle legs pale testaceous, except extreme base of coxae, which 

 is blackish; posterior coxae largely reddish-black; posterior femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi deep reddish-testaceous, more or less infuscated; ab- 

 domen black, more or less tinged with dark red, especially the first 

 and second tergites; the broad membranous margins along the two 

 basal plates pale yellow ; venter pale at extreme base, black beyond. 



Tyi^e locality. — Texas. 



Type.—Ciit. No. 24008, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Unknown . 



Described from one specimen labeled, " Texas, Belfrage." I have 

 also seen one specimen in Doctor Brues's collection at Harvard 

 University, from Austin, Texas. 



26. MICROPLITIS VARICOLOR Viereck. 



3IicroiJlitis I'aricoJor Viereck, Bull. 22, Conn. State Geo!, an^l Nat. Hist. 

 Survey, 1917 (1016), pp. 20.3, 204. 



Type. — In the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 New Haven. 



Connecticut: Tennessee; Texas; Pennsylvania; Louisiana; Dis- 

 trict of Columbia; Michigan; Illinois; Alabama; New York; South 

 Carolina; Canada. 



Hosts. — CirpJils unipuncta Ha worth; Plathypena scahra Fab- 

 ricius. 



The following notes, based upon the unique type, are given because 

 the original description of the species consisted merely of the char- 

 a- terization in the key : Length, 2.3 mm. Face and vertex closely 

 pun' tate and dull; mesoscutum and scutellum uniformly closely 



