MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PKOCTOTRYPID^. 409 



MALES. 



Coxoe pale. 



Anteuiin^ uot longer than the body, brown ; legs honey-yellow G. POLlTUS Say. 



Coxa^ black. 



Antenna- longer than the body, pireons; legs piccous G. floridanus Ashm. 



Autenna> shorter than the body; scape l)lack, the flagellum lirown. 



Flagellar joints twice as long as thick, except the lirst, which is thrice as long 

 as thick; last two apical abdominal segments rugoso-punctate. 



G. TEXANUS, sp. nov. 



Flagellar joints not longer than thick, except the first, which is one and a half 



times as long as thick; last two apical abdominal segments smooth. 



G. PILOSUS, sp. nov. 



GalesuB quebecensis Prov. 



Pet. Fann. Can., ii, p. 559 ; Ashm. Can. Ent., xix, p. 195 ; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 251. 



9 . Lengtli, 3.2"^"'. Black, polislied, shining; head twice as long as 

 wide, pilose, the cheeks with a tuft of griseous wool; anteriorly pro- 

 foundly sulcate and exhibiting 4 acute teeth; frontal prominence with 

 a large, broad, diamond-shaped fovea, its apex not distinctly emargi- 

 nated between the antennte. Antenn<i? 12-jointed, extending to the 

 apex of metathorax, brown; the first flagellar joint thrice as long as 

 thick, the second twice as long as thick; the joints from here gradually 

 incrassated, shorter but broader, submoniliform ; the last very large; 

 cone shaped, as long as the first. Thorax with two deep furrows, the 

 scapula? with a deep sulcus near the tegular ; tegula? large, black ; meta- 

 thorax rugose, oi)aque, pubescent. Wings subfuscous, hyaline basally, 

 pubescent; folded, but not fissured. Legs, including coxae, rufous. 

 Abdomen a little longer than the head and thorax together, polished 

 black; the petiole stout, with deep longitudinal sulci, sparsely pilose. 



S . Length, 4""". Black, polished, shining, with the legs red. An- 

 tennae hairy, the joints separated at the sutures; front excavated be- 

 fore for the insertion of the antennte, with a small point at the middle 

 beneath and another on each side. Thorax elongated, depressed; the 

 metathorax strongly punctured with two carintie united at the base and 

 diverging toward the summit; the mesothorax tuberculous. Teguhm 

 large, red, black at base. Legs of a beautiful red, the thighs swollen, 

 and more or less black. Abdomen pedunculate; the petiole grooved 

 above and hairy at the sides, the rest forming a rather short oval; the 

 second segment with small foveje at base. 



Habitat. — Canada and District of Columbia. 



Type S in Coll. Provancher; 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



The S of this species is unknown to me, and the above description is 

 taken from Abbe Provancher; the 2 is described from a specimen 

 captured at Washington, D. C, which could only be correlated with 

 this species. 



Galesus atricornis, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 2.6""". Black, polished. Autennffi 12-jointed, clavate, 

 black, reaching only to the tegulse ; first flagellar joint only a little more 

 than twice as long as thick, joints beyond to sixth shorter, subequal; 



