MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 101 

 Aphelopus melaleviciis Dalman. 

 (PI. VI, Fig. 3, 9.) 



Gonatopua melaleucus Dalm., Sv. Ak. HaiulL, 181S, p. 82 $ ; Dalm., An. Ent., p. 14. 



Driiinufi fitraf US Dalm. lov. cif., p. 15. 



Aphelopus melnleucus Nees., Mon.. ii, ]). 388, $ ; Walk., Ent. Mag., iv, p. 427, pi. 



XVI, iig. 3 2 . 

 Aphelopus atratus Nees., Mon., ii, p. 389 ^ . 

 Aphelopus »ie?«7e«c«.v Thorns. , OtV., 18(i0, p. 179, <? 9 ; Marsh., Cat. Brit. Hym.,p. 7. 



9 . Leiip,'tli, 1.8""". Black; anteiior orbits, face below the eyes, cly- 

 peus, except sometimes a central line, mandibles and anterior coxib and 

 legs, white; middle legs, lioney-yellow; posterior legs, except a spot 

 beneath the coxie and the trochanters, usually brown or piceous; an- 

 teunte brown, the flagellum a little thickened towards the tip, the first 

 four Joints nearly equal, tlie three following stouter, but much shorter, 

 the last joint nearly twice as long as the preceding. 



S . Length, 1.5""". In this sex the clypeus and the mandibles are 

 white, the legs brown or fuscous, the apical half of anterior femora, 

 their tibia' and tarsi, honey-yellow or whitish; the other legs are also 

 sometimes varied with yellow. 



Habitat. — Europe, Canada. 



This European sjiecies is recognized in our fauna from a single female, 

 taken at Ottawa, Canada, by Mr. W. H. Harrington. Monsieur Alfred 

 Giard has bred it in France, fi^om Typhlocyha hippocastani and T. 

 doHf/hisi, and has given a most interesting account of its habits, in the 

 Comptes Eeudus des Seances de I'Academie des Sciences for 1889. 



Aphelopus albopictus sp. no v. 



9 . Length, 1.5""". Black, shining, the head alone finely, closely 

 punctulate, subopaque; face below the front ocellus, clypeus, mandi- 

 bles, lower i)art of clieeks, palpi, anterior and middle legs, lu'onotum to 

 the tegula?, and the propectus, white or yelloAvish- white; posterior legs 

 embrowned, the coxai, trochanters and base of femora and tibiie, white; 

 clypeus anteriorly slightly emarginate at the middle. Head large, sub- 

 quadrate, with a slight carina between the antennne. Antenna; 10- 

 jointed, dark brown, slightly thickened toward tips, densely pubescent; 

 the first flagellar joint is a little longer than the short scape, the former 

 the stouter; joints 4, 5, and G slightly longer than the first, the seventh, 

 eighth, and ninth shorter, only a little longer tlian wide, the tenth about 

 twiceas longas the penultimate. Mesouotum with the furrows indicated 

 only anteriorly. Metathorax rugose, obliquely rounded off posteriorly. 

 Abdomen very small, compressed, about half the length of the thorax, 

 polished, black. Wings hyaline, the nervures, except the large brown 

 stigma, very pale and indistinct, or subobsolete; stigmal nervure as 

 long as the stigma, slightly arcuate. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C, and Bladensburg, Md. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



