NO. 2178. THE (TBiVf/fi- BEACON FABRICIU,^— MORRISON. 341 



Cresson's meabilis is included here, as I liave examined the types, and 

 some of the specimens fit very closely BruUe's descriptions of Agatliis 

 haematodes, so I have used this name for the species. 



I do not know the location of the type of AgatMs haematodes Brulle, 

 which was described from a single male from Philadelphia. The 

 types of AgatMs meabilis Cresson are in the collection of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



BRACON VIRGINIENSIS, new species. 



Plate 27, fig. 19. 



AgatMs haematodes Br. (Cremnops) Smith, List of the Insects of New Jersey, 



1909, p. 609. 

 Cremnops haematodes Banks, Ent. News, a'oI. 23, 1912, p. 108. 



Malar space shorter than the height of the eyes; body, includmg 

 mouth parts, wholly pale red, except the antennae and eyes, tarsal 

 claws, hind tarsi, and tips of hind tibiae; abdomen sometimes with 

 blackish diffusion above; hind tibiae with two apical spines; first 

 abdominal segment very long and slender; length, 8 mm. 



Female. — Head. — Triangular, wider than high; length, 55; width, 

 61; height of eyes, 30; malar space, 24; width between eyes, 33; 

 width at bottom of head, 18; Lnterantennal plates distinct, rather 

 widely separated by a rather flat groove with rounded bottom; 

 face hardly flattened below the antennae, broadly and shallowly 

 grooved for about one-third of its length below the antennae; profile 

 nearly straight, very sfightly and irregularly arched, faintly depressed 

 opposite the clypeal foveae; ridges surrounding the antennal fossae 

 prominent, highest opposite the upper margin of the median oceUus, 

 continuous to the lateral oceUi; head, including the mouth parts, 

 wholly red, except for the compound eyes, which are dark, and the 

 antennae, which are blackish; face shining, rather densely punctate 

 and hauy below the antennae, more sparsely and faintly so below on 

 the clypeus and on the cheeks; compound eyes relatively large, dark; 

 ocelh light, approximately equidistant from one another; antennae 

 black or blackish-brown m some fighter specimens, 40-41 segmented, 

 first two segments shining, the rest duU; labrum sfightly wider than 

 long, pale, the apical raised run darker, and nearly straight for a short 

 distance, shining, sparsely and finely punctate and hairy; mandibles 

 pale, tips blackish; beak whoUy pale, the second segment of both the 

 maxillary and labial palpi the largest and longest, the last segment of 

 each elongate, slender, nearly cylindrical. 



TJiorax. — Longer than high, whoUy red; lateral lobes of pronotum 

 smooth, shining, finely, and densely punctate around the margins, 

 the apical pits deep but short; proepisterna more coarsely punctured 

 and hairy, the apical lobes smooth and shining; mesonotum shining, 

 sparsely pmictured and hairy; parapsidal fuiTows distinct, not very 



