MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPIDiE. G7 



longitudinal carina. Wings not fully developed, reaching only to the 

 tip of the lirst abdominal segment. Legs rufous, the anterior femora 

 above slightly fuscous. Abdomen pointed ovate, black, shining, s])arsely 

 pilose, the apical margins of the segments tinged with rufous. 



ITabitat.— Carolina. 



Type 9 in Berlin Museum. 



Described from a single specimen, labeled "Carolina, Zimmermann." 



Mesitius texanus, sp. nov. 



9. Length 3.2""". Apterous; black, shining; head oblong, feebly 

 sparsely punctate; thorax coriaceous; antenna', m-andibles, and legs 

 brownish-yellow; metathorax with a single central longitudinal carina, 

 and three or four very short raised lines on either side at base. Abdo- 

 men ovate, as long as the thorax and nuudi wider, polished black, the 

 apical margin of the third and following segments narrowly testaceous. 

 The pedicel aiul the first flagellar joint are about equal, smaller than 

 the following, the following joints being a little longer than thick. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen, distiugushed by the absence of 

 wings. 



ANOXUS Thomsou. 



Ofvers. af K. A et.— Akad., I86I, p. 452. 



(Type J. hoojm Tlioms.) 



Head oblong; the ocelli 3, in a triangle on a slight prominence, in 

 9 subobsolete; eyes in S oblong, in 9 more rounded, slightly hairy. 



Antenme 12-jointed, tiliform, submoniliform in both sexes, in the 

 S i)ilose. 



Maxillary palpi short, 4-jointed; labial palpi 3-jointed. 



Mandibles short, tridentate at apex, the outer tooth acute. 



Thorax smooth, withcjut furrows, the prothorax in 9 much elongated, 

 in <? short, rounded anteriorly; mesonotum very short; scutellum bifov- 

 eated at base; metathorax subquadrate, truncate posteriorly. 



Front wings with two l)asal cells of nearly an ecijial length, and a 

 long radial or stigmal vein; the stigma is minute, quadrate, smaller 

 than the parastigma. 



Abdomen ovate subpetiolate, the third segment the longest. 



Legs as in Beiliylus. 



A genus allied to Epyris and Mesitius, but readily distinguished by 

 the 12 jointed antennw, mesonotal, mandibular and palpal characters. 

 The venation also sufticiently separates it from Beth>/hts and Ciphalo- 

 nomia. 



Two species have been discovered as follows: 



