G38 NEW SPECIES OF BRACONID^. 



being distinctly margined, the face having two keels; abdomen oval, 

 rugose with coarse, reticulated punctures, the raised lines of which are 

 Longitudinally directed, the apex rounded; ovipositor exserted, very 

 loug, the whole base projecting below the abdomen, possibly abnormally 

 SO from an injury ; legs, including coxa', rufous, the posterior tibia' and 

 tarsi black, their femora swollen. Wings dusky hyaline, the costreand 

 Stigma black; other veins dark brown; the submediau cell is much 

 longer than the median; the 1st discoidal cell is distinctly separated 

 from the 1st submarginal ; the recurrent nervure joins the 1st submar- 

 ginal cell a little beyond the middle, the 1st branch of the radius be- 

 ing slightly shorter than the 1st transverse cubital nervure. 



The male is ouly G""" long, colored and sculptured as the female, but 

 is at once distinguished from it by the two porrect spines at apex of 

 abdomen, the absence of the ovipositor, and the projecting genital 

 tubercles or claspers. 



Hahitat. — Tennessee. 



Described from two specimens, one male and one female. 



Urosigalphus robustus n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm . Black, very coarsely punctate; the abdomen 

 sculptured as in C. sericeus Say; palpi blown; antenna? black (broken); 

 the scntellnm and disk of mesonotum are roughened with coarse, di- 

 lated, reticulated punctures; the metathorax as in previous species ; 

 legs honey-yellow; coxa' black; the posterior femora stout, swollen ; 

 the abdomen is not as long as the head and thorax together, oval, full, 

 with a slight sulcus at apex beneath ; the sculpture is coarse, the raised 

 lines longitudinally directed ; no keels at base, the ovipositor slightly 

 exserted ; wings blackish ; costte and stigma black ; venation as iu U. 

 annul us. 



Habitat. — Virginia. 



Described from one specimen. 



Subfamily AGATHIDINiE. 

 PARAGATTIIS u. g. 



This genus is founded upon Microdus thoracicus Cress., and is inter- 

 mediate between Microtias and Agathis. 



The form is robust, the head not rostriform, although the tongue is 

 very much elongated, bee-like, the length of the head, the apex bilobed, 

 the maxillary and labial palpi both being 5-jointed; the basal joint of 

 the posterior tarsi are stout, slightly flattened ; antenna' o<>- jointed, the 

 flagellar joints after the 8th not longer than wide; venation as in Aga- 

 this. 



Paragathis thoracicus Cress. 



Micro, Ins thQracicui Cr., Trans, Am. Eut. Soc, iv, p. 181, 



