no. 2374. NEW WASPS OF SUBFAMILY NYSSONINAE—RORWER. 407 



paratype (c) from St. Louis, Missouri, collected by Phil Rau and under 

 his number 2391; and from a female paratype (d) from Utica, 

 Mississippi. 



NYSSON (FOXIA) SECUNDA. new species. 



Closely allied to pacifica, but differs in being smaller, in having the 

 abdomen entirely rufous and in the slightly separate punctures of the 

 first two tergites. 



Male. — Length, 5.5 mm. Head coarsely, closely punctured; ocelli 

 in a low triangle and without tubercles between the lateral pair; 

 postocellar line distinctly longer than the ocellocular line; third 

 antenna! joint slightly longer than the fourth, the apical joint rounded 

 apically and but little longer than the preceding; pronotum coarsely 

 punctured, the lateral anterior dorsal angles rounded; mesoscutum 

 very coarsely punctured, with the punctures confluent in some places; 

 scutellum not margined laterally, sculptured similarly to scutum; 

 dorsal median part of propodeum coarsely reticulate; lateral angles 

 with short, acute teeth; posterior face of propodeum coarsely cori- 

 aceous, with two median carinae which converge but do not meet 

 ventrally; abdomen coarsely punctured on a granular surface, anteri- 

 orly the punctures are separated by a distance about equal to their 

 width, but on the apical segments they become contiguous; lateral 

 spines on tergites curved, broad at base; spines on apical tergite 

 small. Black; body, especially the head and thorax with dense 

 silvery pile; abdomen rufous with a very obscure yellowish spot on 

 lateral apical margin of first tergite, narrow apical margin of all the 

 tergites with a silvery hair band; legs black, except the posterior pair 

 which beyond coxae are rufous; wings hyaline, slightly dusky api- 

 cally; venation black. 



Type locality. — Claremont, California. 



Type.— -Cat. No. 23456, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one male collected by C. F. Baker. 



NYSSON (NYSSON) AURINOTUS Say. 



A female from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, agrees well with the original 

 description and also with the description given by Handlirsch. There 

 seems to be but little doubt that this represents Say's species, and 

 while it is allied to aequalis Patton, it may be separated from that 

 species by the abundant golden pile at the base of the first tergite; 

 and the black scutellum and pronotum. The pronotum is black but 

 densely covered with golden pile, which Say described as follows: 

 "* * * collar with an obscure golden margin, terminating in a 

 spot." 



NYSSON (NYSSON) 1NTERMEDIUS (Viereck). 



The National Collection contains three males and one female of this 

 species. Two males and the female come from San Bernardino County, 

 California (collected by Coquillett), and the other male from Mesilla 



