NO. 2195. NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA—ROHWER. 165 



late, dorsal middle with median carina; dorsal lateral areas shining, 

 impunctate; second cubital cell slightl}^ narrower above; first re- 

 current vein shortly antif ureal; nervulus interstitial; first two ter- 

 gites longitudinally striato-reticulate; lateral margins of the second 

 tergite and all of the following tergites shining, impunctate. Black ; 

 palpi and tegulae pale yellowish; legs and first two tergites rufous; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, venation pale brown; stigma darker. 



Type^locality. — Santa Cruz Mountains, California. Described 

 from two females (one, type) from the collection of Ashmead. 



Tppe.—Cnt No. 19004, U.S.N.M. 



b. Tergites black, second sculptured at base only. 



DIOSPILUS NEOCLYTl, new species. 



Male. — Length, 6.5 mm.; length of the antennae, about 4 mm. 

 Anterior margin of the clypeus scarcely depressed, the surface shin- 

 ing, almost impunctate; dorsal margins sharply defined by puncti- 

 form foveae; head below the antennae shining, with separate, uni- 

 form, well-defined punctures ; head above the antennae and posterior 

 orbits shining, practically impunctate; ocelli in a low triangle, with- 

 out well-defined depressions laterally; third antennal joint slightly 

 shorter than the fourth; prescutum reticulate posteriorly; notauli 

 strongly foveolate; suture between the scutum and soutellum with 

 one ruga ; prescutum, scutum, scutellum and mesepisternum shining, 

 practically impunctate ; sides of the pronotum recticulate ; metanotum, 

 propodeum, and venation as in calif ornicus; the first tergite and the 

 base of the second longitudinally striato-reticulate, the reticulations 

 predominating on the second tergite, the striations on the first; the 

 apical margin of the second and all of the following tergites shining, 

 impunctate. Black; palpi yellowish; legs rufous; posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi duslrv; tegulae yellowish; wings hyaline, venation pale 

 brown; bod}' with short gray pile. 



Type-locality. — North Cheyenne Canon, Colorado. Described 

 from one male recorded under Bureau of Entomology, No. Hopk. 

 U.S.11924, which refers to a note stating that this is a parasite of 

 Neoclytus caprae Say breeding in Quercus f/amhelli, material col- 

 lected by A. B. Champlain and reared by H. B. Kirk, adult emerging 

 April G, 1914. 



Type.— Cnt. No. 19005, U.S.N.M. 



This may possibly be the male of calif ornicus^ but as there is dif- 

 ference in the sculpturation and color it seems advisable to con- 

 sider it as a distant species. 



