MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROf'TOTRYriDyE. 269 



Lyaline with a short fringe. Abdoiiieu ovate or elliptic-oval, the 

 petiole louger than thick, pale, pubescent. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Amblyaspis americanus Asbiii. 



Can. Ent., xix, p. 129; Cruss. Syn. Hym., p. 249. 



?. Length,!'"'". Polished black, impunctured; antenna' and legs 

 honey -yellow or brownish-yellow; the tips of posterior femora and 

 tibite dusky; club brown, the joints, except the last, not longer than 

 Avide. Lateral ocelli only their width from the eye margin. Scutellnm 

 l)roduced into a long, acute, yellowish spine. Metathorax and petiole 

 covered with a white pubescence. Wings hyaline, longly fringed. 

 Abdomen oval, polished black, the petiole a little longer than wide, 

 densely pubescent. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Amblyaspis minutus, sp. nov. 



9, Length, 0.6 to 0.8'""\ Polished black, impunctured; lateral 

 ocelli close to the border of the eye; antenna? (except club) and legs, 

 yellow or reddish yellow, with the tips of posterior femora and tibia? 

 sometimes dusky. Scutellnm acutely spined, the spine yellow. Funi- 

 cle very slender, the first, third, and fourth joints minute, the second 

 very long and slender; club stout, the joints, except the last, not, or 

 scarcel3', louger than wide. Wings hyaline, strongly fringed. Abdo- 

 men oval, the i)etiole yellowish, pubescent. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C; St. Louis, Mo. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead and ISTational Museum. 



The specimens in the National IMuseum were reared l)y Dr. Kiley, at 

 St. Louis, Mo., July 10, 1870, from Cecidoniijia sp. in squash. 



Amblyaspis rugiceps, sp. nov. 



S 9. Length, 0.8""". Polished black, impunctured; frons and face 

 transversely rugulose; auteinue and legs yellow or reddish-yellow, the 

 thickened parts of middle and posterior femora and tibiaj sometimes 

 dusky or brown; club usually obfuscated or brown. Lateral ocelli 

 about twice their width from the eye margin. Club joints a little 

 longer than wide. Scutellnm acutely spined, yellowish at tip, foveated 

 on each side at base, subpubescent. Metathorax covered with a white- 

 pubescence. Wings hyaline, strongly ciliated. Abdomen oval, the 

 petiole not longer than thick, striated and pubescent. 



The face in the S is very rugose, the club joints about 2^ times as 

 long as thick, the second funiclar joint a little swollen, the first very 

 minute and closely joined to the second, while the legs are paler and 

 more uniformly yellow. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



