MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 243 

 Scelio fuscipennis Ashm. 

 Eut. Am., Ill, p. 119; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 314. 



$ 9 . Length, 3.5 to 5.3'"'". Black, coarsely rugose, the i^arapsidal 

 furrows not at all indicated; scape, xiedicel and legs, except the cox?e, 

 brownish-yellow or reddish-yellow; wings fuscous, paler at base, 

 the stigraal vein distinct with a long branch forming a marginal cell. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville and Fort George Island, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Common. I think this species will i)rove to be a parasite in the eggs 

 of Dictyopterus micropterus. 



Scelio hyalinipennis Ashm. 



(PL X, Fig. 9, 9.) 

 Ent. Am., in, p 119; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 314. 



$ 9 . Length, 4 to 4.5'"'". Black, coarsely rugoso-punctate, the 

 mesonotum without trace of furrows; face striate above insertion of 

 antennae and below the eyes. Mandibles, scape, and pedicel beneath in 

 9 , and legs, rufous, or brownish-yellow ; coxaj in $ black, frequently 

 pale in 9 , or only dusky or blackish basally. Antennte 12-jointed, 

 brown-black, except as mentioned above, the flagellum fusiform, de- 

 pressed, the jiedicel about one-third longer than the first joint, the sec- 

 ond, third, and fourth joints very transverse, 3 times as wide as long; 

 in S 10-jointed, flagellar joints 2 to 7, about of an equal length, scarcely 

 twice as wide as long, the third but little wider than the fourth. Wings 

 clear hyaline, with only a trace of the submarginal vein ; stigma present, 

 the submarginalnervure before reaching it obsolete or subobsolete, hya- 

 line ; no trace of a stigmal nervure. Abdomen imbricato-rugose, venter 

 in 9 often rufous. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead and in National Museum. 



Scelio ovivorus Rilej-. 



Caloptcnohia ovivora Riley, First Rep. V. S. Eut. Comiii., j). 306. 

 Scelio famelicus Riley, nee. Say. Second Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., p. 270. 

 Scelio ovivora Ashm., Ent. Am., iii, p. 119. 



9 . Length, 4.20"'"'. Black, very coarsely rugoso-punctate, the meso- 

 notum without furrows; there is a large polished space on face above 

 the antenuiie, and on either side coarse striic converge toward the man- 

 dibles; mandibles pale rufous. Antennne 12-joiuted, brown-black, the 

 scape and pedicel pale rufous or brownish-yellow; pedicel very slightly 

 longer than first funiclar joint. Tlie thorax is very coarsely rugose, the 

 large punctures confluent; scutellum coarsely rugoso-punctate; meta- 

 thorax with a finer sculpture, the angles dilated, prominent acute. 

 Teguhe yellowish. Wings subfuscous, the stigma of the submarginal 

 vein large wnth a stigmal vein and a ray from its tip. Legs, including 

 all coxie, pale yellowish. Abdomen fusiform, the dorsum and venter 



