HO. 2219. A REVISION OF THE CREM AST INI— CU SUM AN. 533 



broadly, subangulately rounded; mandibles nearly twice as wide at 

 base as at apex; face flat, slightly narrower than greatest eyo length, 

 finely opaquely punctate, a minute median tubercle above; eyes j)ar- 

 allol within; ocelli of equal size, "diameter about two-thirds as long 

 as occU-ocular line, which is slightly shorter than postocellar line; 

 occipital carina weakly complete. Thorax short, plump, rather 

 densely clothed with short, white pubescence; pronotum polished, 

 almost without sculpture; notauli and sternauli weakly impressed; 

 mesoscutum opaquely granular with small, well separated punctures; 

 scutellum similarly sculptured, strongly convex and not laterally 

 margined; mosopleura pohshed above, densely punctate below, this 

 sculpture embracing the sternum; metapleura densely punctate; pro- 

 podeum short, rounded, not reaching middle of coxae; carinac strong, 

 areola pentagonal, half as long as petiolar area, from which it is 

 strongly separated; apical areas transversely rugulose, others punc- 

 tate; legs rather stout (both hind tarsi and one hind tibia missing); 

 stigma about three-fifths as wide as long, radius originating well 

 beyond middle, angle of radius about 110°, second abscissa nearly 

 straight, basal vein somewhat incurved, second recurrent well beyond 

 intercubitus; nervellus interstitial, base of second discoidal cell 

 slightly more than half as long as apex, nervellus antefurcal, broken 

 about one-third of the way up, abdomen nearly twice as long as head 

 and thorax, petiole flattened above with dorso-lateral carinae and 

 foveae strong, ventral margins of tergite distant, subparallcl; post- 

 petiole polished, rounded, about as long as petiole; second tergite 

 about two and one-half times as long as basal width, considerably 

 wider at apex, longitudinally aciculate; third tergite aciculate at base; 

 ovipositor somewhat less than twice as long as first tergite. 



Rufous and black; head with occiput and a broad band embracing 

 vertex and middle of frons and face to a point somewhat below anten- 

 nae black to brownish, otherwise, including clypeus and mandibles, 

 yellow, slightly darker in middle of face; palpi pale brownish; anten- 

 nae black with scape and pedicel beneath and apices of flagellar joints 

 pale; pro thorax, mesopleura, and apex of propodeum rufous; meso- 

 scutum with prescutum black, lateral lobes fusco rufous, notauli, tegu- 

 lae, a spot below, and wmgbases yellow; mesostemum black; scutel- 

 lum testaceous, the impression in front, axillae, postscutellum, basal 

 portion of propodeum, and metapleura blackish; abdomen generally 

 blackish with tergites more or less reddish apically and laterally; legs 

 testaceous, the hind one somewhat darker and the hind tibiae lightly 

 infuscated at apex. 



Type-locality. — New York, New York. 



Type.— C?ii. No. 20252, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single female collected by E. B. Southwick, 

 August 20, 1895. 



