462 PR0CEEDIN08 OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 57. 



PHYTODIETUS CLYPEARIUS Ashmead. 



Phytodietus clypearius Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1902, p. 195. 

 Phylodietics flavi/rons AanuBAD, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1902, p. 196. 



Type of clypearius. — Cat. No. 5612, U.S;N.M., one female in good 

 condition and one female with abdomen wanting, labeled as allotype 

 male. Type of Jlavifrons.— Cat. No. 5613, U.S.N.M., one male in 

 good condition. 



There can be but little reason to doubt that flavifrons is the male 

 of clypearius and that the specimen with the abdomen wanting, con- 

 sidered by Ashmead as the male of clypearius is a female. The color 

 and general appearance of this specimen is that of a female and not 

 a male. 



The black hind coxae readily distinguish this species from all the 

 other North American forms. Known only from tne type material 

 which was collected by T. Kincaid at Yakutat and Orca, Alaska. 



PHYTODIETUS PULCHERRIMUS (Cresson). 



Mesoleptus pulcherrimus Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 1868, p. 101. 

 Phytod'iMus pulcherrimus Provancher, Natural. Canad., vol. 12, 1880, p. 81. 

 Ctenopelma pulchra Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 22, 1896, p. 198. 

 Phytodietus pulchra Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, 1897, p. 340. 



Type of pulcherrimus. — Cat. No. 1509, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila- 

 delphia. Type of pulchra.— Cat. No. 22161, U.S.N.M. 



This distinct species is known only in the male, but it does not 

 seem likely that it can be the male of any of the species treated in 

 this paper. Cresson's type came from Connecticut, Ashmead's from 

 Massachusetts, and there are in the National collection two specimens 

 from Vienna, Virginia, collected June 4, 1913, by R. A. Cushruan. 



PHYTODIETUS FACIALIS, new species. 



The abundant markings distinguish this species from rJl other North 

 American forms, but suggest that it is more closely allied to distinctus 

 Cresson, from which it may be readily separated by the black band on 

 the hind femur. 



Female. — ^Length, 7 mm.; length of ovipositor, 2.5 mm. Inner 

 margins of the eyes parallel; clypeus polished, postocellar line dis- 

 tinctly longer than the ocellocular line; ocelli not especially promi- 

 nent; anterior basitarsi fully two- thirds as long as their tibiae; 

 longer calcarium of hind tibia more than half as long as hind basi- 

 tarsus; areolet petiolate; first tergite rather short; third tergite dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the second. Black, with luteous and red mark- 

 ings; head black, mandibles (except apices), two spots on clypeus, face, 

 except just above clypeus and a W-shaped mark dorsally, inner 

 orbits to vertex and cheeks luteous; antennae black, the three basal 

 joints beneath luteous, flagellum apically beneath brownish; thorax 



