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the transverse carina distinct, the longitudinal carina? on the disc rather in- 

 distinct, widely separated and nearly parallel on the apical half; neuration of 

 wings as in succineipennis, yellowish, stigma and nervures pale brown, nearly 

 testaceous. Abdomen very much as in aprilis; ovipositor as long as the abdo- 

 men. Pubescence as usual. Black; antenna? brown; clypeus with a brown 

 mark anteriorly; superior edge of prothorax yellow, teguJiv whitish, base of 

 wings yellow ; lower half of mesopleura, mesosternum and metapleura ferrugi- 

 nous; legs to a great extent testaceous to brownish testaceous, trochanters and 

 anterior coxie whitish, claws brown, tarsal joints of middle legs whitish, brown 

 at tip, tibia? and tarsi of posterior legs brown and whitish, apical fourth of the 

 posterior tibia? brown, and a brown band near the base, basal joint of the posterior 

 tarsi with the apical third brown, the four succeeding joints with the apical half 

 brown, the apical joint entirely brown ; ovipositor and sheaths of the usual color. 

 Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Douglas county, Kansas. F. 

 H. Snow. 



Pimpla annulipes Brullc''. 



Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas, 900 feet; June, E. S. Tucker. 



Ephialtes irritator Fabricius. 



Lawrence* Douglas county, Kansas ; November 20, 1897. 

 Thalessa atrata Fabricius. 



Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas; May 27, 1901, Hugo Kahl. 

 Harrimaniella pseneimitatrix, n. sp. 



Closely related to immitatrix, from which it diflFers in sculpture and color. 



Female. — Length, 9 mm. Head dull, very minutely sculptured, and with ad- 

 joining shallow punctures; face distinctly elevated in the middle: clypeus rather 

 shining, sparsely punctured, separated from the face by a rather distinct, shal- 

 low, broad impression ; malar space a little shorter than half the length of the 

 first joint of the flagellum; antenna? forty-two jointed, scape and pedicellum 

 about as long as the second joint of the flagellum. Thorax almost uniformly 

 dull and punctured like the face; dorsulum with parapsidal grooves not even 

 indicated by faint grooves; the mesopleura have a shining pit a little above the 

 middle near the posterior margin of the sclerite; metanotum without longitu- 

 dinal carinae, more coarsely punctured than the mesopleura, almost rugulosely 

 punctate ; wings tinted with dark brownish, nearly blackish, nervures and stigma 

 dark brown ; areolet quadrangular, petiolate, the petiole shorter than the shortest 

 side of the areolet, but variable in length. Abdomen smooth and impunctate, 

 except the first segment which is roughened and indistinctly punctured in part; 

 ovipositor, 8.5 mm. long. Uniformly sericeous, pubescence short and whitish, 

 nowhere conspicuous. Black; clypeus anteriorly testaceous; wings at base yel- 

 lowish; legs yellowish rufous, except as follows: Trochanters with some fuscous,- 

 posterior tibiae brown, rufous only on the inner side, tarsi and claws brownish, 

 the posterior tarsi very dark brown; a broad apical margin of first abdominal 

 segment, second and third segments, except narrow lateral margin, fourth seg- 

 ment, except narrow lateral margin and broad apical margin, deep reddish fer- 

 ruginous; ovipositor brown, sheaths black. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Douglas county, Kansas, 900 

 feet. F. H. Snow. 



