MONOGRAPH OP THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 43 

 Dissomphaliis califoiiiicus s[). no\ . 



(5 . — Length 3'"'". Black, shining; the head bnt feebly ijuuctiired, 

 with a frontal depression before the front ocellus; thorax with 2 fur- 

 rows; mandibles rufous ; palpi whitish; legs brownish yellow; the pos- 

 terior coxiie black basally ; the hind femora dusky above. Antennae 13- 

 jointed, fuscous, the scape and pedicel yellow; the first flagellar Joint 

 very small, only half the length of the pedicel; the three or four fol- 

 lowing scarcely longer than thick; those beyond longer, all densely 

 covered with a short pubescence. Metathorax subquadrate, dorsally, 

 except just at tip, rugose, with a median carina. Wings hyaline, the 

 venation pale yellowish; the stigma is thrice as long as thick, truncate 

 at apex. Abdomen oval, scarcely half the length of the thorax, black, 

 shining; the two small tubercles on the second segment are wide apart, 

 placed near the basal angles. 



Habita'I'. — California. 



Type S in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



Described from a single specimen. 



Distinguished from xanthopiis by the sculpture of the head, color 

 and relative lengths of the Joints of the autennie, longer thorax, color 

 of the hind legs, shorter, oval abdomen, and in the position of the two 

 tubercles on the second abdonunal segment. 



Dissomphalus carolinensis sp. iiov. 



9, — Length 2.G""". Polished, imi^unctate; head oblong-quadrate, 

 l)iceous bhick; antenntp 13-Jointed, not longer than the head, brownish 

 yellow, the flagellum slightly dusky toward apex and very slightly 

 iucrassated; the scape is less than half as long as the flagellum and 

 stouter; pedicel larger than the three following Joints united, which 

 are small and not longer than thick; the Joints beyond these to the 

 last are wider than long; the last joint longer than the penultimate. 

 Thorax and legs brownish-yellow; the tarsi pale; metatlu)rax quad- 

 rate, impressed laterally to the middle coxte. Abdomen black, polislied, 

 conic-ovate, as long- as the head and thorax united, the incisions pale, 

 the apical margins of segments 3 to G slightly emarginate. 



Habitat. — North Carolina. 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



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



ATELEOPTERUS Forster. 

 Verb. (1. Natnib. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl., 1851, p. 5, Tab. i, f. 1, ala;. 

 (Type J. Forstcri Kircbuer, <? .) 



Head in apterous 9 oblong-(piadrate, flattened subconvex above, 

 the eyes small, oblong-oval, the ocelli wanting; in winged 9 with ocelli; 

 in $ shorter, the eyes large, prominent, slightly hairy. 



