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AXI9IA Walker. 

 1862.— Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud* (3) i, p. 373. 

 (Type A. spinifrons Walk.) 

 Axiina spiiiifrouM Walk., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. (3), i, 1862, p. 373. 

 Hab.—St. Paul, lirazil. 



Axiiiia zabriskiei How., Ins. Life ii, 1890, p. 366, figs. 68, 69, 9 . 70 %. 



Hub. — Nyack, N. Y., New Jersey and Agricultural College P. O., 

 Michigan. 



IS0.S09IA Walker. 



1832.— Ent. Mag. vol. 1, i>. 14. 



(Type Ichneumon verticlUatns Fabr.) 



Isoisiuina alboniaciilattini sp. u. 



9 . — Length 2.2 mm. Black, shining, feebly punctate; anterior lateral angles 

 of prouotum with a large, oblong, white spot; palpi whitish ; knees and all tarsi, 

 except the last joint, yellowish white; antennse bearded, the fuuicle 5-jointed, 

 the first joint the longest, nearly three times as long as thick, the others gradu- 

 ally shortening, fluted ; club stouter than funicle, 3-jointed ; icandibles reddish 

 yellow; eyes whitish. Pronotum a little wider than long, quadrate; mesonotuni 

 witii the lateral lobes convex, much shorter than the middle lobe; scutellum 

 rounded behind, convex; metauotum rugose. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the 

 tegnlfB piceous, the venation light brown or yellowish, the marginal nervure 

 about one and a half times as long as the stignial, the latter about as long as the 

 postmarginal. Abdomen subsessile, ovate, much broader than the thorax, and 

 as long as the head and thorax united, highly polished, the segments nearly' 

 equal in length. 



% . — Length 1.5-2 mm. Agrees with 9 iu color, but the abdomen is smaller, 

 not wider than the thorax and shorter, with a distinct, but short, finely rugose 

 petiole, the anteiinfe being long, with whorls of long hairs, the flagellar joints 

 nearly as long as the scape, each joint constricted or narrowed at apex. 



Hub. — Morgantuwn, W. Yn. Types in coll. West Virginia Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Described from two 9 'Ui^l eleven % specimens. 



I$«OMOiiia inonlaiiiini sp. n. 



9. — Length 5 mm. Black; scape, pedicel atid legs, except coxso, brownisli 

 yellow ; flagellum brown-black; coxse black, the posterior pair closely punctate, 

 clothed with a glittering white pubescence at sides. Antennae with the fiist 

 flagellar joint one-third longer than the second, the following joints a little 

 longer than wide. Wings hyaline, the nervures pale yellowish, the marginal 

 nervure thick, about twice the length of the stigmal, the latter forked at tip, the 

 postmarginal very little longer than the stigmal. Abdomen pointed-ovate, pol- 

 ished, the segments toward base exhibiting a tine alutaceous sculpture, segment 

 5 a little the longest, with some sparse, white hairs at sides, segments 6 and 7 

 covered with white hairs. 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXI. (42) SEPTEMBER, 1894. 



