252 BULLETIN 4a, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Metaclisis belouocnemee Ashm. 



(PI. XI, Fig. 3, 9.1 



Can. Ent., xix. p. 12."; 9 .—Cress. Syii. Hym., p. 248. 



9. Length, 1.5"'". Black, opaque, closely, fluely punctate. Legs 

 and antennre, except the cUil>, pale brownish yellow ; club biown-black. 

 Antenna? 10-Jointed, the scape thick, clavate; pedicel longer and thicker 

 than the first funiclar joint; first and second funiclar joints cylindric, 

 equal or nearly so, the first very slightly the longer; third and fourth 

 very minute transverse; club 4-jointed, the joints, except the last, 

 transverse, the last conical, longer than the preceding. Parapsidal fur- 

 rows distinct. Scutellum convex with a carina around the posterior 

 margin. TeguljTB dark brown. Wings, hyaline, the submarginal vein 

 yellowish. 



Abdomen oval, as long as the thorax, smooth, shining, except the 

 first segment, which is a little roughened from some striaj. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



This species was reared by myself from a Cynipid gall, Bclonocnema 

 treatw jMayr, and it is undoubtedly parasitic on a Cecidomyiid inhabit- 

 ing the gall. 



Metaclisis erythropus, Ashm. 



Can. Ent., xx, p. 51. 



$. Length, 2.5""". Black; head opaque, coarsely rugose on the 

 vertex and cheeks; face transversely aciculated, with a central de- 

 pressed line extending forward from the middle ocellus. Antenna; 

 10-jointed, black ; pedicel as long as the second funiclar joint; first 

 funiclar joint small, second swollen ; club G-jointed, the joints longer 

 than wide, .subpedicellate, hairy, the last joint conical, longer than the 

 preceding. Thorax finely reticulated, or scaly; parapsidal grooves dis- 

 tinct, converging and meeting at the base of the scutellum. Meta- 

 tliorax covered with a sericeous pubescence. Legs rufous, the coxjtb 

 black. Abdomen black, polished. Wings subhyaline (probably tinged 

 from the cyanide bottle), faintly pubescent, the tegulse rufo-piceous. 



Habitat. — Ottawa, Canada. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen received from Mr. W. Hague Har- 

 rington. 



MONOCRITA Furster. 



Hyni. Stud., ii, p. KM) (1856) 



(Typt- M. alinas Walk.) 



Head transverse, wider than the thorax; ocelli 3, in a triangle, the 

 lateral as far from the front ocellus as to the eye margin, 



Antenme inserted just above the clypeus, 10-joiuted in both sexes, 



