THE TEIBE CHALCIDI2S7 BITEKS 2oO 



tooth only slightly larger than others; inner tooth absent: apex of 

 metatibia elongate, sharp ; apex of jjfjsterioT tarsus with five to seven 

 long setae; claws long, basal enlargement with one or two minute 

 teeth. 



Propodeum thickly corered by small carinae. spiracular openings 

 vertical ; petiole short, only slightly more than twice as long as wide, 

 surface usually roughly ridged at base, a pair of small lateral s^ib- 

 basal projections present: cerci round, located midway between ante- 

 rior and posterior margins of epipygiimi: apex of ovipositor sheath 

 constricted and provided with several long, sli^tly curved ventral 

 setae: hypopygium strongly exserted, isolated from eighth tergite 

 (as in fig. 13. g). 



Male : 4r-5.o mm. Antennal scape spatulate (fig. 8, d) ; apical spur 

 of mesotibia well developed; foretarsal claw with a series of long 

 basal spines (fig. 11. c) : metafemur without an inner tooth: ninth 

 stemite narrowly emarginate at apex /"fig. 14. d). 



Type locality. — Massachusetts. 



Tyjj^. — Holotype. male, 1778, Academy of Xaniral Scienc-es of 

 Philadelphia. 



Ho!i t. — Unknown. 



DktriTjv.fAoru — Connecticut. Illinois. Maine. ^lassachusetts. AfiTi- 

 nesota, Xew Hampshire. Xew Jersey. Ontario. 



CEALCIS B ARBAR A (CitiBM) 



FrcTBEs a e; 11. i: 13. g: 14. e 



Smicra larlara CsESSos, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, voL 4. -p^ 37, 47, 192. 1572. — 

 HowAED. r. S. Dept. Asr. Btit. Eur. BuIL o, p. 33, ISSo. — CsEssoy. Sync-peis 

 of the families and genera of the Hj-menoptera of America north of Mex- 

 ico, p. 233. 15S7. — Daixa Tosse. Catalo^os hymenopterortnn. voL -5. p. .373. 

 1898. — ScHitxEDEsivECHT. G«iieEa insecbKniQ. fast 97, pt Zi. 1909. — Csesso^. 

 The Cresson types of HvmCTtoptera. p. 74, 1916. 



Smicra rufofemorata Cbxssos. Trans. Amer. Ert. Sec. voL 4. h>. 36, 39. ISCL, 

 1ST2. — HowABD. U. 5. Dept- Agr. Bur. Er:. 'Ezll ^ 7 '- ISS. — CmEsaam, 

 Synopsis of the families and genera of '.Zr H-— t:i :-:: : America norOi 



of Mexico, p. 234. 1SS7. — Dalx^ T ^jz. ! - : r^ — -- 7-- rrn, toL 5, 



p. 3S1. IS&S, — ^ScH^asrerK^TECHT, :----:! :z~cc:oru.n. ii^:. -7. Zk. 36, 1909. — 

 Ckesso:?. The Cresson types of H-z: -ptera, p. 76. 1316. — Yrs3CEC¥i. Cod- 

 necticnt GeoL and Nat. HisT. S-:-r Bill 22. p. 326, 1916. — Bkcttqs, ibid^ 

 vol. 31. p. 326. 1P2I-"). 



The female of this species is most readily recognized by the usually 

 red dorsum of the thorax, the large acute inner tooth of the meta- 

 femur. and the conspicuously exserted hypopygitmi with the apex 

 isolated from the eighth tergite : the male is always black, with the 

 antennal scape uniformly expanded from base to apex, and the 

 metafemur has a distinct inner tooth. 



Description. — ^Dorsum of female more or less red. of male black: 

 lees imiformlv brown : abdomen varvins from brown to black. 



