44 WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



scutellum ; mesopleura smooth ; metauotiim aud abdomen, except apes of second 

 aud third segments, longitudinally striated ; ovipositor a little shorter than 

 abdomen. 



Hah. — Manhattan, Kan. 



Type in coll. Ash mead. 



Described from a single specimen received, some years ago, from 

 Mr. C. L. Marlatt. 



Differs from H. aciculatus Cr. in color of body and wings, length 

 of the ovipositor, in having smooth mesopleura, and in the stride of 

 the metanotum and abdomen being finer. 



2. Koriiiiopforus aciculatus Cresson. 



Hormiusf aciculatus Cr., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. iv (1872), p. 190. 

 9. — Length 5 mm. ; ovip. 1.5 mm. "Fuscous, more or less tinged with dull 

 ferruginous; head ferruginous, with white pubescence, not full behind the eyes, 

 vertex [anteriorly] depressed ; antennae [longer than body], pale at base, dusty 

 at tips; thorax fusco-ferruginous; pleura, metathorax and abdomen covered with 

 dense longitudinal strise; mesothoracic lobes smooth, the sutures rugose; tegulie 

 honey-yellow ; wings narrow, subhyaline, apical half varied with pale fuliginous ; 

 a streak at tip of stigma, an oblique streak in first cubital cell, a spot at base of 

 second cubital cell aud a short trausverse line at its apex, hyaline; stigma black, 

 whitish at base and apex; legs ferruginous, with sparse erect hairs; abdomen 

 blackish fuscous, tinged with reddish at base [and usually at tip], clothed with 

 short erect whitish hairs ; sutures deeply incised, the second segment with a deep 

 transverse line a little behind the middle; ovipositor about half the length of 

 abdomen." 



Hub. — Texas (Belfrage) ; Jacksonville, Fla. (Ashmead). 

 Type in National Museum, obtained with the Belfrage collection. 

 Several specimens of this species, agreeing in every particular with 

 the type, I obtained in Florida, under oak bark in March. 



