454 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 57, 



APLOMERUS FOUTSI, new species. 



This species is closely allied to tibialis Provancher but may be sep- 

 arated from it by the characters used in the foregoing table. 



Female. — Length of body 10 mm.; length of ovipositor 10 mm. 

 Face coarsely punctured, in the middle the punctures are sometimes 

 confluent; front, vertex, and posterior orbits highly polished with a 

 few scattered, poorly defined punctures; top and sides of pronotum 

 striato-punctate; scutum, prescutum, scutellum, and mesepisternum 

 polished with only a few scattered punctures; notauli completely 

 foveolate; propodeum irregularly wiinkled, the usual carinae distinct 

 but not prominent, basal area and the areola confluent; first and 

 second tergites finely longitudinally striate, in the middle of the 

 second tergite the striae curve so at the extreme apical middle they 

 are transverse; the third and fourth tergites transversely aciculate. 

 Black; palpi pale yellowish; legs except yellowish spot at the base to 

 the four anterior tibiae rufous ; first, second, and base of the third ab- 

 dominal segments rufous ; wings hyaline, faintly dusky, venation dark 

 brown; nervulus antef ureal by one-fifth its length. 



Type locality. — Cabin John, Maryland. One female collected by 

 R. M. Fonts, for whom the species is named. One female paratype 

 from Onaga, Kansas, Crevecoeur. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20910, U.S.N.M. 



APLOMERUS TIBIALIS (Provancher). 



Platysoma tibialis Provancher, Can. Ent., vol. 17, 1885, p. 115. 

 Aplomerus tibialis Provancher, Addit. faun. Can. Hym., 1886, p. 120. — Davi8, 

 Proc. Acad. Soi. Phila. 1894, p. 190. 



Type. — Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 

 Canada. A single female in good condition except the left antenna 

 is wanting beyond the fifth joint. The notes on this species were 

 taken from the unique type. 



Notauli foveolated, body 10 mm. long; ovipositor 13 mm. long. 



Vancouver Island. 



(APLOMERUS) XORIDES NASONH Davis. 



Aplomerus nasonix Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 22, 1895, p. 32. 



Type. — In the collection of Academy of Natural Science, Philadel- 

 phia. 



This is the male of Xorides calidus (Provancher), see page 438. 



Genus ODONTOMERUS Gravenhorst. 



Odontomerus Gravenhorst, Ichneumon. Eur., vol. 3, 1829, p. 851. Genotype.— 

 Ichneumon dentipes Gmelin. 



The genus Odontomerus has been correctly recognized in America 

 for many years. In 1870 Cresson tabulated the North American 



