MOXOGRAPH OF THE NOKTIi AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 307 



Polygnotus solidaginis Asbni. 

 Cau. Eiit. XIX, p. 131; Cress. 8yu. Hyin., p. 250. 



S 9. Length, 1 to 1.00" '. Black, poli^lied; \wi\d very wide, the 

 vertex posteriorly strongly transversely striated; face smooth, polished. 

 Mandibles rufous. Antennaj 10-jointed, brown, the scape often black; 

 pedicel in S longer than the first two fuuiclar joints; joint 1 of fnnicle 

 very small, yellowish; second much larger than the third, and thicker; 

 club joints, except the tirst and last, hardly longer than thick, the first 

 wider than long, the last cone-shaped and one-half longer than the i)re- 

 ceding; club in 9 4-joiuted, the last fuuiclar joint obcouic. Tliorax 

 ovoid, smooth, usually without a trace of furrows posteriorly, and 

 sparsely pubescent, especially near the scutellum. Scutellum high, 

 convex. Metapleura sericeous. Teguhie piceous or black. Wings 

 liyaline, pubescent. Legs, including coxic, variable, from a pale rufous 

 to rufo-piccous, sometimes only the tarsi are pale; sometimes trochan- 

 ters, bases and tips of tibia", and the tarsi honey-yellow, and sometimes 

 the middle and posterior femora are black. Abdomen longer than the 

 thctrax, the i»etiole striated; the stria from the basal foveohe on the 

 second segmeut extend to the middle of the segment. 



Habitat. — Florida and Missouri. 



Ty])es in Coll. Ashmead and National Museum. 



Many specimens. First bred at Jacksonville, Fla., by myself from 

 CecUJomijia utbuJo.sa Ashm. JMS. Dr. liiley has also reared it at Bush- 

 berg, Mo., from a Cecidomyiid gall on t<oUda(jo^ Sei)tend)er 21, 1S7G, 

 while Miss Murtfeldt bred it from the same gall at Kirkwood, Mo., 

 September 13, 1885. , 



Polygnotus pinicola, sp. nov. 



$ 9. Length, .80 to 1'""'. Black, shining; head wider than the 

 thorax, smooth, highly polished, the vertex posteriorly and the occiput 

 uot aciculated. Anteniue 10-jointed, brown; first three funiclar joints 

 small, slightly increasing in length; club 5-jointed, the joints, exce]3t 

 the last, scarcely longer than wide; in $ the first funiclar joint is very 

 small, tlie second slightly curved, dilated, and truncate at a|)ex; the 

 club 0-jointed; the joints, except the last, moniliform, slightly pedicel- 

 late; the last fusiform, much longer than the i)receding. Thorax short, 

 ovoid, shining, without a trace of the niesonotal furrows. Scutellum 

 high, transversely, convex. Metapleura nearly bare. Teguhc piceous. 

 Wings hyaline. Legs, including cox;e, dark rufous, the tarsi and some- 

 times the tip of anterior tibia', honey-yellow or whitish. Abdomen not 

 longer than the thorax, smooth, the petiole and the second segment at 

 base striated. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. V. 



Types in jSTational Museum. 



Described from several specimens, reared May 14, 1870, from a Ceci- 

 domyiid, Ccculomi/ia ;pini-inoim 0, a">'.; found on pine needles, 



