628 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.42. 



blackish, annulus at base of tibiae almost colorless, rather smoky 

 whitish; flagel 24-jointed, first and second joints pale and almost 

 concolorous with the testaceous scape and pedicel; face and mandi- 

 bles mostly brownish; ovipositor somewhat longer than the abdomen; 

 otherwise agreeing essentially with the original description of Spathius 

 unifasciatus Ashmead. 



Type-locality. — ^Columbia Falls, Montana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14730, U.S.N.M. 



Labeled, "No. 8574 Hopk. U. S., from Pissodes species, Josef 

 Brimner, collector." 



Named for Lir. Josef Brunner. 



Genus TRIASPIS, Haliday. 

 Triaspis Haliday, Eiit. Mag., vol. 3, 1835, pp. 123-124. 



Many species originally included. 



Type. — Sigalphus caudatus Nees, by present designation. 

 This is the same as Sigalphus of authors not of Latreille which latter 

 is isogenotypic with Spliaeropyx Illiger. 



TRIASPIS PISSODIS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. ; black and shining or polished ; clypeus 

 rather coarsely indefinitely punctured; mandibles reddish, blackish 

 at base and apex; palpi blackish; antennae blackish; flagel 18- 

 jointed, its joints all longer than thick; tegulse blacldsh; notauli 

 foveolate; wings almost colorless, with a dark tinge; stigma and costa 

 blacldsh, veins blackish stramineous; second abscissa of the cubitus 

 nearly twice as long as the fu"st abscissa of the radius; all coxae black, 

 fore and mid trochanters blackish; fore femora atramineous, mth 

 blackish stains, fore tibiae stramineous; mid femora reddish, blackish 

 above, mid tibiae reddish; hind femora and tibiae reddish, the latter 

 blackish above; all tarsi mostly blackish; propodeum vaguely 

 areolated; abdomen with two distinct, curved, transverse furrows 

 dividing the dorsum into three almost equally long segments, all of 

 which are longitudinally striated, the striae of the third segment con- 

 verging toward a median longitudinal smooth or punctured or rough- 

 ened area, the third segment with its apical edge reflexed so as to form 

 an apical bounding channel to the segment; exerted portion of 

 ovipositor approximately two-thirds as long as the abdomen. 



Type-locality. — Columbia Falls, Montana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14731, U.S.N.M. 



Allotype. — Essentially as in the type even to the number of joints 

 in the flagel. 



The specimens are labeled, '' No. 8573, Hopk. IT. S., ex Pissodes 

 species, bred specimens, June 1-7, 1911, Josef Brunner, collector." 



