76 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Prothoiax very long, rounded before; mesonotum very short, not 

 longer than the scutelluni; metathorax subquadrate, longer than wide, 

 truncate behind, the angles a little rounded, smooth; niesopleura i)ol- 

 ished with a small round fovea at the middle. 



Wings fusco-hyalinc, the venation brown, the parastigma and stigma 

 black, the latter quadrate, but slightly longer than wide, the stigmal 

 vein long, scarcely curved; the second basal cell is much shorter than 

 the tirst, the basal vein broken only by a short stump of a vein. 



Legs short, stout, black, the tips of tibi:e and the tarsi yellowish. 



Abdomen very long, cylindrical, conic, longer than the head and 

 thorax together, highly polished, black. 



Habitat. — Virginia Beach, Md. 



Type 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Taken by Mr. E. A. Schwarz July 17, 1890. 



Goniozus columbianus, sp. nov. 



S 9 . Length, 1.5 to 2""". Black, shining, the head very feebly mi- 

 croscoi^ically punctate, in 9 IJ times as long as wide, in S not longer 

 than wide across the eyes. 



Antenna', 13-jointed, a little longer than the head, the scape dusky 

 or piceous towards base, the flagellum yellow ; the pedicel is very small, 

 very little longer than thick, the two following joints subtriangular, 

 those beyond moiiiliform. 



Wings liyaliue, the parastigma and stigma brown, the other veins 

 pale or tinged with yellow; the stigma is oblong, 2A times as long as 

 wide; the stigmal vein long, bent upwards at tip; the branch of the 

 bagal nervure short. 



Legs piceous brown, in S brown, with the trocluinter, all tibiii3 and 

 tarsi j^ellow, in the 9 the middle and posterior tibi:i3 yellow except at 

 the middle above. 



Abdomen not longer than the thorax, black polislied. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. 0. 



Types S and 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Comes nearest to G. Huhlxirdl How., but quite distinct by the color 

 of the legs. 



Goniozus Hubbardi Howard. 



Hubbard's Oraiigo Ins. app., p. 217 9 ; Asbm. Ent. Am., in, p. 119; Cress. Syn. 



Hyui., ].. 217.. 



$ 9 . Length, 1.0 to 2""". Black, shining, alutaceous; head feebly, 

 sparsely punctate, with a distinct carina anteiiorly l)etween the an- 

 tenna?. 



Antenna', 13-jointed, the scape and ix'dicel yellow, the flagellum 

 brownish-yellow, the joints after the second submoniliform, the lirst 

 minute. 



