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Scelio cEdipodae, sp. nov. 



S 9 . Leugtli, 3.5 to 4""". Black, rugose; scape, pedicel, and legs, 

 except the coxa', brownish -yellow; thorax witli i)arapsidal furrows 

 distinct, in female wanting anteriorly; tegnlaj piceous; wings hyaline, 

 the stigma reaching the costa; the stigmal vein wanting, or only 

 slightly developed; metathorax truncate behind, the angles straight, 

 not prominent; abdomen longer than the head and thorax united, 

 striated; lirst segment well separated from the second by a strong con- 

 striction, twice as wide as long. 



The antenna; in the male are brownish, the face vertically striated, 

 the femora brownish, the tibite and tarsi yellowish. 



Habitat. — Arlington, Va. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from 1 S and 2 9 specimens, reared from the eggs of a 

 species of Oedipoda. The black coxae and the distinct parapsidal fur- 

 rows at once separate the species from Scelio ovivorus Riley, and the 

 grooved mesonotum from 8. hyalinipennis Ashm., the rugosities being 

 finer than in either of these species. 



Scelio opaciis Prov. 



Aceroia opaca Prov., Add. et Corr., p. 184; Cress. Syn., p. 249. 

 9 . Length, 3.25""". Black, opaque, with the feet red, more or less 

 dusky. Head and thorax rugoso-i^uuctate, the abdomen with the disks 

 of the segments longitudinally aciculated. Wings hyaline. Abdomen 

 sessile, the first segment being much narrower than the others. {Prov.) 

 Habitat. — Cap Eouge. 

 Type in Coll. Provancher. 



Unknown to me. 



[Since this was written a male Scelio^ labeled '•'■Aceroia 02)(ica, Type, 

 Provancher", has been deposited in the National Museum by D. W. Co- 

 quillett, of Los Angeles, Cal., and I have in consequence merely re- 

 moved Provaucher's brief description from the genus Acerota, in the 

 subfamily PhdygasterincCy to its proper place in Scelio, having had no 

 time to draw up a full description.] 



Scelio rufiventris, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 3.5'""'. Brown-black, rugose, the abdomen mostly rufous, 

 fuscous above, except along the sides; scai^e, pedicel, first funiclar joint, 

 and the legs pale rufous. Thorax with distinct parapsidal furrows. 

 Tegula* black. Wings hyaline, the sti'gma without a stigmal nervure. 

 Funiclar joints after the first very transverse, three times as wide as 

 long, the pedicel being as long as the first, second, and third funiclar 

 joints united. Abdomen pointed-fusiform, longer than the head and 



