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apex. Abdomen long, slender, compressed tliroufjhout, at least twice as long as 

 the head and thorax together, ferruginous; the petiole and first segment are 

 about e<|ua! in length and very slender ; the second segment dorsally, the third 

 less distinctly, a blotcb at apex of fifth, all of sixth, and tlie base of seventh, 

 dusky or black; in the % the second and third wholly, a blotch on the fourth, 

 apex of the fifth and the following segments, including claspers. excej)t ex- 

 treme edge of last segment, are black. Wings short, hyaline ; the stigma and 

 veins pale brown ; the disciil areolet is wanting, and the third discoidal cell is 

 rather narrow, the cubital nervure slightly curved and intei'stitial with the dis- 

 coidal nervure, the first recurrent nervure is, therefore, absent, a peculiarity not 

 befiire noticed in the group. . 



Hah. — St. L()ui.«<, INTo., and Fortress Monroe, Va. 



Described from several specimens labeled •3422'^'', reared July 10th, 

 and Anyust 7th and 10th, 1884, from a Tortricid, Pnedb^ca species, 

 found at Fortress Monroe, and a single specimen, labeled No. 750^", 

 l)red by Dr. C. V. Riley, from an unknown Tortricid in Missouri, 

 April 23, 1877. 



Tribe III. Porlzonini. 

 Tribe TV. Pristomerini. 



KIIMI0S09IA Cresson. 

 Eipho!«oiiia pyraliiliK n. sp. 



^.—Length 12 mm. Black, shining ; the thorax with some coarse scattered 

 punctures; face, pleura and metathorax sparsely covered with long white pubes- 

 cence ; the face, mouth parts, anterior orbits to summit and an abbreviated post- 

 orbital line, yellow ferruginous : ridge of collar, pro.sternum, except ajjcx, two 

 oval spots anteriorly on middle lobe of mesothorax ; scutellum, tegulje, tubercles 

 and a triangular spot in front of them, an oblong spot beneath the insertion of 

 posterior wings and the apex of metathorax connected with lateral lines not ex- 

 tending to the meta-scutelhim, yellow. The anterior and middle legs are pale 

 yellow ferruginous; the posterior pair red, their coxse, except at apex, first joint 

 of trochanters and second joint above, the base and apex of femora, the tibiai, 

 except a blotch on the middle, and tarsi, l)lack ; the tootli on fen)ora beneath near 

 the apex, charactoi'istic of the genus, is small. Abdomen very long, slender, 

 compressed, ferruginous, the petiole very slender, about as long as the second 

 segment, luteous; the slightly swollen apex black; the second segment, except 

 at apex, is dorsally black ; the third and following segments are of nearly an 

 equal letigth, hardly half the length of the second, base of third and a narrow 

 line at base of fourth, fifth and sixth segments, and the terminal segments wholly, 

 except a blotch at sides, black. Wings hyaline : stigma, except a pale streak at 

 base, and the veins brown ; the discal areolet is subtriangular, petiolate. 



Hah. — Kirkwood, Mo. 



Described from a single specimen received from Miss Mary Murt- 



feldt, labeled " Para.site on Pyntlid {.") or So/idiu/o, June 12, 1.S85." 



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