MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AIVIERICAN PR0(;T0TRYPID^. 45 



the length of the head, clavate, a little bent; the pedieel small; the 

 flagellar joints a little longer than thick. Prothorax a little longer 

 than its width at base, rounded before. Mesouotniu short, transverse; 

 scutelluui subconvex, with a transverse impressed line at base. Meta- 

 thorax a little longer than wide, tlnely rugulose. Wings dark fuscous. 

 Legs brownish yellow. Abdomen black, shining, as long as the head 

 and thorax together, with sparse long hairs, thicker at the pointed 

 apex. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type S in Coll. Ashmead. 



Ateleopterus virginiensis sp. iiov. 

 (PI. in, Figs. 1, <? ; 2, 9 .) 



S . Length 1.75"'™. Black, smooth, shining, varied with rufous or 

 piceous. Antennre 13-jointed, pale brown or yellowish; the scaj)e one- 

 third the length of the head. 



Prothorax long, narrowed in front twice the length of the width at 

 base. Metathorax a little more than twice as long as wide. 



Wings hyaline, the veins of the single basal cell pale brownish-yel- 

 low. Legs rufous, the femora sometimes dusky above. Abdomen 

 black, the sutures tinged with rufous; sometimes the rufous color ex- 

 tending on to the segments ; the posterior margin of the second and third 

 segments emarginate at the middle. 



9 . Length 2.2""". Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen piceous-black, 

 the pointed tip rufous, the sutures pale, the posterior margin of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments emarginate. 



Habitat. — Arlington, Ya. 



Types $ and 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from several specimens in both sexes, reared from a clus- 

 ter of cocoons taken under the bark of an old stump and which have 

 enabled me to complete the generic diagnosis. 



Ateleopterus tarsalis, sp. nov. 



9. Length, 1.8™™. Black, polished, impunctate; antennre dark 

 brown; legs piceous to black, articulations somewhat reddish; tarsi 

 honey-yellow. The head is oblong, a little longer than wide, squarely 

 truncate at base and apex, the sides convex; eyes rather large, oblong 

 oval; antennje 13-jointed, the scape clavate not quite one-half the 

 length of the head; pedicel li times as long as thick, and much 

 larger than any of the following joints, the flagellar joints closely united, 

 wider tlian long. Pronotum a little longer tlian wide, narrower than 

 the head and longer than tlie mesonotum and scutellum united; mes- 

 onotum about lialf as long as the scutellum, smooth without furrows; 

 scutelhim witli 2 fovese at base; metanotum long, quadrate, with tlie 

 sides margined and a central carina. Wings hyaline, the venation 

 brownish. Abdomen conic-ovate, much wider than the thorax, but 



