.",6 NEW SPECIES OF BRACONIP/E. 



black; the other veins dark brown; the 1st branch of the radius is 

 about one and a half times longer than the 2d branch. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Described from one specimen. 



ASCOGASTER Wesmael. 



Ascogaster flaviceps nl «i>. 



Female — Length, 4-p" u . Head, palpi, two basal joints of antennae, 

 and legs, honey -yellow ; flagellum, thorax, and abdomen, black. The 

 head is finely continently punctate ; antenna? 27-jointed, involuted at 

 tips, the scape long, a little longer than the 1st joiut of the flagellum ; 

 the latter is about five times as long as wide; thorax continently punc- 

 tate, the posterior surface of middle lobe, rugose; the parapsides are 

 not distinct, only indicated by some punctures; metathorax rugose, 

 sloping posteriorly with two short, acute carinas on the disk, and acute 

 lateral angles posteriorly; the abdomen is as long as the head and 

 thorai together, gradually narrowed posteriorly, the tips roundedly 

 truncate, the whole surface being uniformly rugose, with two moder- 

 ately long keels basally. Wings hyaline, iridescent; stigma and veins 

 brown; the parastigma and the base of the median and anal nervures 

 yellowish; the 1st discoidal cell is distinctly separated from the 1st 

 Bubmarginal, and the recurrent nervure is interstitial with the 1st 

 transverse cubital nervure, the 2d transverse cubital being very pale 

 or hyaline. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



Described from one specimen in Belfrage collection. 



Subfamily SIGALPHINiE. 



SCHIZOPRYMNUS Forster. 



Schizoprymnus texanus Cress. 

 Sigalphus texanus Cress. 



Three specimens of this species, labeled No. 210 01 , were reared May 

 22, 1880, from a gall, Trypeta solidaginis, from which also issued beetles, 

 (Mordellistena unicolor Leconte) ;* other speciui ns that can not be sep- 

 arated are numbered 249;5 n ', and were reared December 13, 1881, from 

 a Trypeta gall sent to the Department by Mr. H. K. Morrison, col- 

 lected in Utah. 



Schizoprymnus americanus n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 6 mm . Black; continently punctate, sparsely pubes- 

 cent. The abdomen is one solid carapace (although two, more or less 

 distinct, oblique sutures can be detected laterally), one-third longer 

 than the head and thorax together, brown, pubescent. Head trans- 

 verse; a sharp keel extends from first ocellus to between the antenna'; 

 clypens sunken, with deep fovese on each side; mandibles black; palpi 

 pale; antenna 1 , reach to apex of metathorax; parapsidal grooves are 



