[haeeingtonI CANADIAN PROCTOTRYPID^ 193 



Subfamily YIII.— PEOCTOTEYPlNiB. 



DiSOGMUS CANADENSIS, SJ). UOV. 



Ç. — Length 3 -5 mm. Black, polished; legs rufous. Head transverse, wider 

 than thorax, shaped much as in P. rufogasfer, but the face somewhat more convex ; 

 clypeus and mandibles rufous, palpi yellowish ; antennje stout, rufous at base and 

 dusky towards apex ; scape short, subtriangular, pedicel annular, first joirft of 

 flagellum as long as scape and pedicel, remaining joints gradually slaorter, not 

 much longer than thick, or lialf as long as first, joints bej^ond ninth wanting 

 (having been broken in transmission by mail). Thorax with deep mesonotal fur- 

 rows, abbreviated posteriorly, scutellum polished, convex, with transverse fovea at 

 base, between each end of fovea and base of wing a few short striœ. Metathorax 

 rugosely foveolate, not distinctly areolated. Petiole punctured at base, striate at 

 tip ; abdomen oval, acuminate, black above, rufo-piceous at sides and beneath, 

 Cauda slender, yellow, half as long as abdomen. Wings hyaline, subpubescent ; 

 nervures brownish, the stigma elongate, more than twice as long as wide, marginal 

 cell large, triangular, as long as stigma. Legs, including coxa?, honey-yellow, tibial 

 spurs stout. 



Described from one 9 taken at Ottawa several years ago. The 

 specimen was sent with other material to Mr. Ashmead, when he was 

 writing his Monograph, .and was returned labelled P. ceUaris, n. sp. 



Procttotrypes caudatus. 



Proctotrypes caudatus, Say, Long's Sec. Exp., ii, p. 329 ; Sec. Ed. Say, i, p. 221. 

 Prodotrypes crennJatus, Patton, Can. Ent., xi, p. 64. 



Proctotrypes caudatus (Say), Ashmead, Monog. N. A. Proc, p. 335, pi. xiii, 

 fig. '7, 9. 



One 9 from Osoyoos, Okanagan "Valley, B. C. (Greene), is referred 

 to this species. ■ 



Proctotrypes rufigaster. 



Proctotrypes rufigaster, Provancher, Nat. Can., xii, p. 263 ; Faune Ent. Can., ii, 



p. 561. 

 Proctotrypes rujigasier (Prov.), Ashmead, Ent. Am., iii, p. 99; Monog. N. A. 



Proc, p. 336. 



One 9 and three $ $ recorded by Provancher {loc. cit.) ; locality 

 not mentioned. One 9 and five S $ taken in August, Hull and Ottawa ; 

 one 9 from Mr. J. D. Evans, Sudbury, Ont. ; one $ taken at Winnipeg, 

 July, 1895, by Dr. Fletcher. 



Proctotrypes californicus. 



Proctotrypes caUfornicus, Holmgren, Kongl. Sv. Freg. Eug. Resalns., p. 434. 

 Proctotrypes caUfornicus (Holm.), Ashmead, Monog. N. A. Proc, p. 338. 



One S- in Coll. Ashmead, from Ottawa. One ê- from Hull, 14th 



Auffust. 



