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Piiiipla conqiiisitor. 



Pimpin ronquisitor, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 232. 



Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Piinpla inquisitor. 



Pimp/a inquisitor, Say, Contrib. Macl. Lye. i., p. 71. 

 Oue 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Piinpla notauda. 



Pimpla notanda, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 148. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Piinpla sanguinipes, n. sp. 



9- — Black, head aud thorax closely and finely punctured; metathorax 

 finely pubescent, opaque and finely rugose, transversely striated medially; 

 antennae slender, setaceous, piceous; tegulse black; wings subhyaline, nervures 

 and stigma black, the latter pale at base, areolet subrhomboidal : legs robust 

 and, including coxte, sanguineous, four posterior tarsi more or less obfuscated: 

 abdomen robust, densely and coarsely punctured, except narrow apical mar- 

 gins and two or three apical segments which are smooth and shining; oviposi- 

 tor about half the length of abdomen. Length .45 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Easily distinguished from 

 all the other known N. A. species by the legs being entirely bright red. 



Piinpla petiilca. n. sp. 



9. — Long, slender, black, shining, feebly punctured ; mandibles brown 

 with a white spot on each; palpi white; antennae short, brown-black above, 

 brown beneath, whitish towards base; sides of mesothorax, scutellum and 

 pleura, except anterior margin, sanguineous; tegulae and short line before, 

 white; wings hyaline, nervules and stigma fuscus, the latter pale at base, areolet 

 subrhomboidal; legs slender, two anterior pairs, including coxse, white; their fe- 

 mora above fulvous, their tibiae at tips and apex of tarsal joints blackish ; posterior 

 coxse and femora bright fulvous, their trochanters and knees white, their tibise 

 pale, except a stain before middle, and their tips as well as the tarsi black : 

 abdomen long, slender, closely and finely punctured, sides of segments .3 — 5 

 swollen; ovipositor longer than body, rufous, sheaths black with long pubes- 

 cence. Length .35 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to notanda. 

 Cress., from which it differs by the four anterior legs being mostly 

 white. 



Piinpla aniniosa. n. sp. 



9. — Black, polished; palpi white; antennce pale testaceous, paler at base 

 beneath and darker above ; tegulre white ; pleura with an iridescent reHection, 

 flanks and apical margin of metathorax, and small ill-defined patch on eacli 

 side of pleura before middle coxse, sanguineous; wings hyaline, iridescent, 

 nervures aud stigma black, areolet incomplete, having outer nervure obsolete: 

 legs slender, fulvo-ferruginous, anterior pair pale yellow, with white tro- 

 chanters, middle tibise fuscous with median white aunulus, {)Osterior tibise 

 black, with narrow annulus at base and broad one at middle, wliile, their tarsi 



