MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID^. 383 



long", setaceous; the first flagellar joint nearly as long as the scape, 

 strongly excised at base; the joints beyond shorter, very gradually 

 shortened ; the penulthnate joint thrice as long as thick, the last slightly 

 longer. Metathorax smooth, shining, cariuated. Wings subhyal'ue, 

 the venation pale brown, the marginal cell 2.^ times as long- as the 

 marginal vein, the first branch of the radius very oblique, a little shorter 

 than the marginal vein. Abdomen black, polished, pilose; the petiole 

 longer than the metathorax or a little more than twice as long' as thick, 

 strongly fluted. 



Habitat. — Georgia. 



Type iu Coll. Ashmead. 



PANTOLYTA Fih.ster. 

 Hyui. StiuL, II, p. 130 (1856). 

 (Tyjie. Behjta heterocera Hal.) 



Head subglobose, the face produced into a ledge for the insertion of 

 antenuit; ocelli minute; eyes rounded. 



Anteniiic inserted on a frontal prominence; in 9 14-jointed sub- 

 moniliforni; the pedicel larger and stouter thau the first flagellar joint; 

 in S , filifcnnn. 



Maxillary palpi, a-jointcd; labial palpi, 3-jointed. 



Mandibles bifid at tii)S, subrostriform. 



Thorax as in Anectata. 



Front wings pubescent, with a, distinct basal cell, but without a mar- 

 ginal cell; the marginal vein variable, punctiform, or as long as the 

 basal nervure. 



The radius always short, but slightly developed. 



Abdomen conic-ovate, the petiole short. 



Legs as in Anectata, the femora and tibi;e clavate, pilose. 



This geiuis very closely resembles Poli/pe.za Forster in the Diaprihiw, 

 but that genus has no basal cell in the hind wings. 

 The following species is the only one as yet detected in our fauna: 



Pantolyta brunnea, sp. iiov. 

 (PI. XVI, Fig-. 1, 2.) 



9. Length, 2™'". Light brown to brownish-yellow; antennje .and 

 legs pale brownish-yellow; eyes dark brown, rounded. Head globose, 

 the face with a prominent frontal ledge for the insertion of anteuuai, 

 the occiput rounded; mandibles subrostriform, conical, bifid at tips. 

 Antenna^- four-fifths the length of the body, clavate, gradually incras- 

 sated towards tips, pubescent, the joints, after the sixth, moniliform; 

 scape long, cylindrical, slightly bent, and nearly half the length of the 

 flagelluin, the apical margin beneath produced into a minute spine; 

 pedicle oblong, stout; first funiclar joint the slenderest and longest 

 joint, obconical, about three times as long as thick at tii^; second 

 funiclar joint about two-thirds the length of the first; the third still 



