298 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



striate; wings transparent, nearly colorless, tinted with brown, stigma pale 

 brown, nervures dark brown; areolet with nearly the same proportions as in the 

 preceding species, the radial side, however, distinctly shorter than the second 

 cubital side, which is about one and a half times as long as the radial side of 

 the areolet. Abdomen with the first segment smooth and polished and apparently 

 without sculpture, the succeeding segments dull, with adjoining or nearly ad- 

 joining punctures, the apical segments with indistinct and more separated 

 punctures. Pubescence whitish and distributed as usual, very inconspicuous. 

 Ferruginous; greater part of front with a production connecting the ocelli, 

 greater part of propleura, anterior face of mesopleura, a transverse band beneath 

 the wings beneath the superior border of yellow on the mesopleura, furrow 

 in the middle of the posterior half of the mesopleura, a spot on the lower pos- 

 terior corner of the mesopleura, large portion of the lower half of metapleura 

 and the sutures around the wing, scutellum and postscutellum black; face 

 below antennae, greater part of mandibles, an orbital line interrupted above 

 and broad on the lower half of the cheeks, tegulce somewhat, transverse line 

 beneath wing insertion, anterior and middle coxaj and trochanters, scutellum 

 and postscutellum yellow; anterior and middle legs yellowish at the knees; 

 scape and pedicellum beneath yellowish brown, first joint of the flagellum be- 

 neath yellowish, scape above brown, pedicellum and first joint of the flagellum 

 brown. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality : Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., Au- 

 gust, 1902. F. H. Snow. 



Sub-family Ophionin^. 



Pristomerus appalachianus, n. sp. 



Related to P. pacificus which has a more distinctly areolated metanotum and 

 a shorter ovipositor. 



Female. — Length, 6.5 mm. Head largely shining; occiput and cheeks mi- 

 nutely granular, subtle, dullish; vertex, front and face almost uniformly closely 

 punctured and shining, the punctures sparse in the middle of the face, clypeus 

 highly polished with sparse minute punctures, mandibles shining and punctured 

 nearly as closely as the face; scape nearly three times as long as the pedicellum, 

 flagellum missing. Dorsulum shining, more distinctly but nearly as closely 

 punctured as the face, parapsidal grooves indicated only on the anterior third of 

 the dorsulum, obsolete beyond; scutellum shining, less distinctly punctured 

 than the dorsulum; metanotum more closely punctured than the dorsulum, the 

 areola large, hexagonal, nearly twice as long as broad, the basal ridge shorter 

 than the apical ridge, the lateral ridge forming an obtuse angle, the side nearest 

 the base of the segment being shorter than the remaining side, basal area quad- 

 rate, petiolarea hexagonal, transversely rugosopunctate, the ridges bounding the 

 petiolarea of nearly equal length, lateral areas irregular but bounded by distinct 

 ridges; propleura partly, closely punctured, partly impunctate, polished; meso- 

 pleura shining, closely punctured, obliquely, shallowly impressed; metapleura 

 somewhat dullish compared to the mesopleura, closely punctured; wings clear, 

 iridescent, nervures and stigma brown, first abcissa of the radius a little longer than 

 twice the length of the abcissa between the transverse cubitus and the recurrent 

 nervure, the lateral abcissa a little longer than the transverse cubitus, the dista] 

 portion of the cubitus beyond the recurrent nervure nearly as long as the 

 transverse cubitus, the second abcissa of the discoidal nervure distinctly shorter 

 than the transverse cubitus, the third abcissa of the discoidal nervure nearly 

 as long as the transverse cubitus, discocubital cell sessile, tranverse median ner- 



