11 G BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



but gradually tliickeued, the last joiut twice as long as the penultimate. 

 Wings hyaline, the stigma brown, the stiginal vein one and a half times 

 as long as the stigma. Abdomen very slightly longer than the thorax, 

 smooth and polished, pubescent toward tip, the venter flatter than 

 usually, the i)etiole and second segment at base, striate. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Type 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen received from IVIr. E. A. Schwarz. 



Megaspilus marylaiidicus sp. nov. 



5 . Length, 2.4'""'. Black, subopaque, finely shagreened and si)arsely 

 l>ubescent; the scape, pedicel, and legs reddish-yellow. Antenuic 11- 

 jointed, the flagellum brown, slightly paler basally, not longer than 

 twice the length of the scape j the pedicel yellow, distinctly shorter 

 and thicker than the first flagellar joint, the second shorter than the 

 first, third and fourth about equal, shorter than tlie fifth, the fiftli to the 

 last about equal, very slightly longer than thick, the last twice as long- 

 as thick. Wings fuscous, the stigma brown, the stigmal vein slightly 

 more than twice the length of the stigma. Abdomen a little longer 

 than the head and thorax together, black, polished, boat-shaped below, 

 somewhat flat above. 



Habitat. — Oakland, Md. 



Type 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from specimens received from Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 



Megaspilus Harringtoni Asbm. 

 Can. Ent. aoI. xx, p. 48. 



$ 9, Length, 2 to 2.5""". Black; head and thorax with a fine reticu- 

 late punctuation; abdomen polished black. Antenna^ 11 jointed, the 

 scape and pedicel dull yellow, the flagellum brown black; the pedicel 

 is not quite as long as the first flagellar joint. Legs dull yellow, the 

 posterior cox.e black, the anterior and middle cox.e dusky basally, the 

 posterior femora fuscous or dusky. Wings subhyaline, pubescent, the 

 large stigma and stigmal vein brown. 



Abdomen the length of the thorax, the i)etiole yellowish. 



The S di fleers from ? only in its slightly smaller size and in the long 

 filiform antenna^, the joints of the flagellum being about four times as 

 long as thick, the scape yellowish toward the base. 



Habitat. — Ottawa, Canada. 



Types S 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



The types were taken by Mr. W. H. Harrington. 



Megaspilus hyalinipennis Ashm. 

 Ent. Am., m, p. 98; Cress. Syu. Hyiu., ]>. ;^13. 



9 . Length, 2"'"', Kobust, black, alutaceous, with a very sparse, 

 pale pubescence. Antennie 11-jointed, filiform, dark brown ; the pedicel 



