MONOGRAPH OF THE NOKTH .\MERICAN PROCTOTKYPIJ).E. 355 



Avitli a smooth cross furrow on the disk; iiieta thorax cariuated. 

 Abdomen longer than the head and thorax together, conic-ovate, the 

 hist segment conical, as long- as the third, fourth, tifth, and sixth seg- 

 ments united, and yellowish, the ovipositor issuing from its tip; petiole 

 scarcely twice as long- as wide, tluted. Wings not fully developed, 

 extending only to the base of the second abdominnl segment, subfus- 

 cous and very pubescent. 



Habitat. — Marquette, Mich. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen, taken at the above place by Mr. 

 E. A. Schwarz. 



BELYTA Jurme. 



Hym., p. 311 (1807); Forster, Hym. Stud., ii,p. 130, 133 (1856). 



(Type B. hicolor Jur.) 



Head su globose, the occiput luirrowed, rounded; ocelli small, in a 

 triangle; eyes rounded, hairy. 



Antenuoe inserted on a very prominent frontal projection ; in 9 15- 

 joiuted, stout, moniliforin or submoniliform, the scape stout, reaching 

 tar above the head, the pedicel rounded, the first flagellar joint obconic, 

 the following joints to last moniliform or transverse-moniliform, usually 

 increasing in size toward apex, the last oblong or ovate; in $ 14-jointed, 

 long, filiform, the scape extending beyond the ocelli, pedicel rounded, 

 the first flagellar joint about two-thirds the length of the scape, pro- 

 foundly excised at base, the following shorter, cylindrical, 3 or 4 times 

 larger than thick. 



Maxillary palpi 5-jointed, long; labial palpi short, 3-jointed. 



Thorax subovoid, depressed, the prothorax distinct from above, 

 rounded before, the angles obtuse; mesonotum with 2 dee]) furrows; 

 scutellum not very prominent, subconvex, with a profound fovea at 

 base, and without lateral grooved lines; metathorax with the middle 

 carina not extending to the apex, interrupted or broken, sometimes 

 wanting, posterior angles prominent, acute. 



Front wings pubescent, with a basal cell, and usually, but not 

 always, with an open or imperfectly formed marginal cell; the mar- 

 ginal vein short; the first branch of radius short, obliqua, Avitli a hook 

 or slight branch at tip; hind wings with one cell. 



Abdomen ovate or oblong oval, depressed, 8-jointed, the petiole stout, 

 seldom twice as long as thick, fluted, the second segment very large, 

 with a longitudinal sulcus at base; the following- segments all short, 

 the last sub triangular. 



Legs rather stout, clavate, pilose, the middle and hind tibia? sub- 

 clavate; tibial spurs 1, 2, 2, the last two short, but stout; tarsi 5-jointed, 

 the basal joint nearly 3 times as long as the second. 



