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recurrent nervure. All the coxse are black and rugtilose, the hind pair being 

 elongated and produced beneath into a triangular process that extends far beyond 

 the insertion of the trochanters. The abdomen is highly polished, inipunctate, 

 except at its extreme base, and shaped as in Aulacus or Prisinulacus, only that it 

 is not so distin<;tly petiolate, the first segment occupying fully half its whole 

 surface." 



Habitat. — Saranac Inn, New York. 



Hod. — Hym., Xiphydria provancheri Cresson, living in birch 

 twigs (Dr. E. P. Felt). 



Type.— Cat. No. 5782, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 The author has not seen this species. 



Paininegischia pallipes Cresson. 

 1879. Aulacus pallipes Cres., % , Proc. Ent. Sec. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1879, p. xvii. 

 1901. Pammegischia weedi Ashmead, % , Can. Ent., xxxiii, p. 301. 



% . — "Small, black ; head subglohose, broad behind the the eyes, face beneath 

 antennae, spot beneath eyes, mandibles, except tips, antennae and legs, except 

 coxae, yellow ; antennae nearly as long as the body, dusky at base above; meso- 

 thorax very feebly rugose, rounded in front, not emarginate ; sides of pleura 

 stained with dull yellowish; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma ochraceous; 

 abdomen robust, about as long as head and thorax, slender at base, first and sec- 

 ond segments, except base and the venter, ferruginous." Length 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Massachusetts. 



Type in the collection of the American Entomological Society, a 

 single male, is in such a bad state of preservation, that the author 

 has been obliged to quote Mr. Cresson's description instead of re- 

 describing it. 



Fainme$;iscliia lovei Ashmead. 

 1901. Pammegischia lovei Ashmead, 5) C'an. Ent., xxxiii, p. 301. 



9 .— "Length 4 mm. Ferruginous; eyes, mesonotum, base of metathorax, hind 

 coxae toward apex, the fiagellum and the ovipositor, which is a little longer than 

 the abdomen, brown or brown-black; all femora and the hind tibiae, except at 

 base, dusky, rest of legs honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, the subcostal vein brown, 

 the stigma and the rest of the veins pale ferruginous." 



Habitat. —Palisades, New Jersey, collected in May by E. E. Love. 

 Type.— Cut. 5857, .U. S. Nat. Museum. 



The author has not seen this species, but he suspects that it mav 

 be the 9 of Pa.mmegischia (Aulacus) pallipes Cresson. 



Pammegischia ouellefii nov. spec. 

 %. — Yellow, glabrous; head globular, smooth, mandibles tipped with black; 

 antennae yellow, 6 mm. long; medial mesothoracic lobe not gibbous nor emargi- 

 nate, slightly rugose ; wings hyaline, with violaceous reflection ; marginal nerv- 

 ure receiving the first transverse cubitus within or close to the stigma, third dis- 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVII. (42) DEC, 1901. 



