608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. ^ol. 57. 



Female. — ^Length, 15 mm.; antennae (entire flagellum of both 

 missing); ovipositor, 11 mm. 



Head polished, impunctate, temples weakly convex, strongly slop- 

 ing; face three-fourths as long as wide; clypeus so sharply inflexed 

 that it appears truncate, the median tooth very small; malar space 

 slightly shorter than basal width of mandible; diameter of lateral 

 ocellus less than postoceUar line, which is about three-fourths as 

 long as oceU-ocular line. Thorax polished, more or less obscurely 

 sculptured laterally and ventrally, especially on pronotum; propo- 

 deum nearly as long as depth of propodeum and metapleura, cori- 

 aceously roughened, with the petiolar area sharply separated and 

 highly polished, longitudinal carinae weak, spiracles broad oval; 

 areoletlackmg. Abdomen a haK longer than head and thorax, sculp- 

 ture granular, more or less striate basally and subpolished a})ically; 

 first tergite three-fifths as wide at apex as long and about a third 

 longer than second; hypopygidium fully half as long as abdomen. 



Piceous black; head immaculate, but with faint paler piceous re- 

 flections above clypeus; palpi and underside of scape and pedicel 

 fusco-piceous; legs pale testaceous, hind femur at apex, tibia, tarsus, 

 and apical joints of middle tarsus fuscous; tegulae white, piceous at 

 apex; wings hyaline, veins and stigma fuscous, latter white at base; 

 abdomen somewhat paler than thorax except at tip. 



Type locality. — Pisgah Ridge, North Carolina. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20773, U.S.N.M. 



One female under Hopkins U. S. No. 3558, which number refers to 

 a note by W. F. Fiske recording it as havmg been reared, May 26, 

 1905, as a parasite of a cerambycid (Leptura ?) in a dead branch of 

 Viburnum. 



COLEOCEINTRUS NIGER Cushman, new species. 



AUied in its lack of an areolet to minor Cushman, but in general 

 habitus, length of propodeum, and cl3rpeus more closely allied to 

 harringtoni Cushman. 



Female. — Length, 18 mm.; antennae (flagella missing); ovipositor, 

 13 mm. 



Head very delicately shagreened, subpolished; face two-thirds as 

 long as wide, shallowly impressed each side of middle; clypeus mode- 

 rately inflexed, tooth broad and obtuse; malar space slightly shorter 

 than basal width of mandible; frons arcuately striate; temples 

 flat, sharply sloping; diameter of lateral ocellus nearly as long as 

 postocellar line, which is about two-thirds as long as ocellocular 

 line. Thorax coriaceous, subpolished, mesoscutum nearly smooth; 

 propodeum much shorter than depth of combined propodeum and 

 metapleura, petiolar area very short, more or less longitudinally 

 rugose, sharply separated, longitudinal carinae subobsolete, spiral 

 broadly oval. Abdomen two-thirds longer than head and thorax. 



