182 WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



I'seudoniethoca cressonii Fox. 



%. — Length 4 mm. Black, shiniug, clothed with sparse whitish hairs; man- 

 dibles, palpi, antenual tubercles, sutures of trochanters, knees of anterior and 

 middle legs and their tarsi, the abdominal sutures 2 and 3 and the last segment 

 with two spines, honey-yellow; anterior and middle femoi-a beneath, more or less 

 piceous. Head distinctly punctate ; thorax with coarser reticulated punctures ; 

 metanotum reticulated. Wings subfuscous, the stigma and veins brown. Ab- 

 domen sparsely punctate, the punctures closer together toward apex of the seg- 

 ments, the segments 3 and 5 perfectly smooth, impunctured towards the base. 



Hub. — Jacksonville, Fla. ; New Jersey (Fox). 

 Described from a single specimen captured by myself. 



Family CYNIFID.E. 

 Subfamily I. Figitin^e. 

 SARATHRUS Hartig. 

 Sarathrus nasoui sp. n. 



f . — Length 2 mm. Polished black ; eyes bare ; legs dark honey-yellow, the 

 coxae and femora, except tips, black ; the posterior tibise more or less obfuscated 

 behind ; antennse 13-jointed, entirely black, the scape and last joint of an equal 

 length, and longer than any of the other joints, the scape clavate, the last joint 

 oblong ovate; the first and second joints of the flagellum are about equal, but 

 slenderer than the following joints, the flagellar joints 3-10 subeqnal, about 

 twice as long as thick, the terminal joint is not quite twice as long as the penul- 

 timate. Wings hyaline, the veins reddish brown, the areolet incomplete, with 

 only the second transverse cubital vein present ; scutellum rugose, with two large 

 polished fovese at base, separated by a delicate carina; mctathorax rugulose with 

 two median carinie, the latter bounded outwardly by a rather dense pubescence. 



Hub. — Algonquin, 111. 



Described from one 9 taken by Dr. Wm. A. Nason, Aug. 12, 



1895. 



FIGITOOES Ashmead. 



FigitodeN atricoruis s]>. u. 



5> . — Length 2.5 mm. Polished black ; eyes pubescent : mandibles and palpi 

 black ; knees, tibiai and tarsi dark honey-yellow; The sides of face, along the 

 eyes, are microscopically shagreened ; prothorax at sides, the mesopleura, excej)! 

 superiorly, and the metapleura are coarsely striated ; antennse 13-jointed, black, 

 the last joint much stouter, but very little longer than the scape, twice as long 

 as the penultimate joint; the first joint of the flagellum is a little longer than 

 the second, the third a little shorter than the second, the joints beyond subuio- 

 niliform, only a little longer than thick. Wings hyaline, bare, the marginal cell 

 open along the fore margin and nearly as wide as long: mesouotum smooth, with 

 two furrows; scutellum rugose posteriorly; ventral valve large triangular, the 

 short abdominal segments 4 6 sparsely microsco}>ically i>unctate. visible only with 

 a high power lens, the seventh or terminal dorsal segment closely minutely iiunc- 

 tat«, except at base. 



Hab.—^imUi Fe, New Mex. 



Described from one 9 received from Prof. T. D. \. Cockerell, 

 who captured it on Alfalfa. 



