340 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



the first, the following joints to the last very gradually shortening, the 

 penultimate being but slightly longer than thick, the last being twice 

 as long as the penultimate, fusiform. Metathorax rugose, with 3 

 carinje, inclosing two large smooth areas at base. Abdomen as 

 long as the thorax, black, shining, the ovipositor about ^ its length. 

 Wings hyaline, without discoidal nervures, the stigma large, the mar- 

 ginal cell ^ its length, not petiolate at base. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. ; Virginia, and Indiana. 



Specimens are in the National Museum, Coll. American Entomo- 

 logical Society, and Coll. Ashmead. 



Proctotrypes obsoletus Say. • 



Bost. Jour., I, p. 277, 9 ; Lee. Ed. Say, ii, p. 725; Ashra. Ent. Am., iii, p.98; Cress. Syn, 



Hym., p. 248. 



9 . Length, 4""'. Polished black ; antenu?e brownish-yellow ; mandibles 

 yellowish; legs reddish-yellow; wings hyaline. Antennae IS-jointed, 

 very slightly thickened towards tips, second flagellar joint two thirds 

 the length of the first, the four following equal, about as long as the 

 second, 2^ times as long as thick, the terminal joint fusiform, almost as 

 long as the two preceding joints together, or fully as long as the first. 

 Metathorax rugose, the middle carina extending to the posterior face. 

 Abdomen longer than the head and thorax united, emarginate at base, 

 the petiole extremely short, the cauda very slightly longer than the 

 basal joint of hind tarsi. 



In the male the antenna3 are filiform, pale brownish, the first flagellar 

 joint as long as the scape, the joints very slightly increasing in length 

 from the second, broken ofl" from the sixth. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia and Iruliana. 



Specimens in National Museum and Coll. Ashmead. 



A single si)ecimeii of what I believe to be this species was feared by 

 Prof. Comstock, December 9, 1879, from Stelidota strigosa. 



Proctotrypes Belfragei, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 5""^. Polished black, with a sparse fuscous down. Head 

 transverse, thrice as wide as thick antero-posteriorly; palpi pale; man- 

 dibles rufo-piceous. Antennae 13-jointed, pale brown, darker towards 

 tips, extending to tegulae, cylindrical, the scape oval, the pedicel an- 

 nular, the first and the last flagellar joints equal, the joints after the 

 first very gradually shortening, the three j)receding the last not more 

 than \h times longer than thick. Metathorax at sides coarsely rugose, 

 the disk smooth, shining, with 3 carinne, the middle of which extends to 

 the apex, the lateral abbreviated. TeguliB and legs reddish yellow, 

 the posterior coxa> behind black; tibial spurs short. Wings hyaline, 

 the venation, except costal nervure, piceous-black ; the marginal cell is 

 very short, one- third the length of the stigma; no traces of nervures in 



