OF NATIRAL IIISTOKV. 708 



2. A. MKLLEUS. — Huiiey -yellow : aritrniinc whito. hlaekish at 

 base. 



Inhabits Ttidiana. 



9 l)(ttly honey -yc'lli)\v ; head with a large black sj ot above the 

 antenute; beneath the antennae yellowish ; antenna: white; basal 

 third above black; occiput with a dusky spot ; scutel yellow, the 

 sutures around it black: winirs with a blackish tip; tergum, 

 sutures somewhat dusky ; tibiae and trochanters yellowish. 



Length two-fifths of an inch. 



BASSUS Fabr. 



1. B. S.\NCTUS. — Black ; nietathora.x, abdomen and posterior 

 feet sanguineous. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



5 Body black: palpi tinged with piciMin-i ; thorax, jdeura, pec- 

 tus, and two anterior pairs of feet immaculate; [250J wings black- 

 ish-violaceous, with a hyaline literatiou in the middle ; norvurcs 

 black : separating uervure between the first cubital and first di.s- 

 coidal cellules widely interrupted ; second cellule triangular , 

 cubital cellule rather largi' ; mctathorax and abdomen brii;ht san- 

 guineous ; posterior coxtc and thighs bright sanguineous, the in- 

 tervening trochanter black : posterior tibia) dull sanguineous, 

 their tips dusky, their t;irsi blackish ; oviduct nearly a.s long as 

 the body, ferruginous, with black valves. 

 Length over three-tenths of an inch. 

 At first view resembles Bracon initiator F. 

 2. B. LiMiTAUis. — Black ; feet honey-yellow. 

 Inhabits Missouri and Indiana. 



Body black ; palpi white ; thora.x longitudinally indented be- 

 hind the middle ; wings nearly hyaline, at ba.sc yellowish ; ner- 

 vures fuscous; stigma large; first cubital cellule complete ; second 

 rather large, quadrangular; radial cellule also rather large ; feet 

 lioney -yellow; posterior pair of tibioe whitish, their tips and an- 

 nulus near the base black ; posterior pair of tarsi black. 

 Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 

 Var. o. Maxillary palpi, first joint black. 

 9 Oviduct hairy, decurved, somen^hat robust. 

 1835.] 



