120 
frontal crest moderately developed, obtuse; fovea shallow, clypeus 
truncate; antennwe moderately stout, scarcely tapering until near tip, 
third joint not, or scarcely, longer than fourth; venation normal, except 
that the first cubital is hyaline; sheath with dense fringe of hairs; claws, 
with rather large inner tooth, approaching bifid. Color black, shining; 
apex of clypeus, labrum, pronotum, tegulie, abdomen, and legs for 
the most part reddish yellow; basal segment of abdomen, narrow line 
down center of dorsum of following segments, more or less interrupted 
at sutures, black; posterior tarsi and extreme tips of posterior tibie 
black; bases of all cox black; band on mesonotum, just above 
seutellum, rufous; wings hyaline, or nearly so; veins and stigma dark 
brown; spot in second cubital cell large and prominent. 
Four females. Washington. (Colls. U.S. Nat. Mus. and Am. Ent. 
Soc.) 
14. Pristiphora bivittata Norton. 
1861. Nematus bivittatus Norton. Proc. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., virt., p. 158. 
1867. Nematus bivittatus Norton. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe.,1, p. 219. (Cat., etc., p. 81.) 
1878. Nematus bivittatus Provancher. Nat. Can., X, p.56. 
1885. Nematus bivittatus Provancher. Faun. Ent. Can. Hym., p. 188. 
Female.—Length 6.5 mm.; robust, shining; head densely and finely 
tuberculate-granulate, opaque, clothed with sericeous hairs; clypeus 
nearly squarely truncate; ocellar and frontal ridges almost wanting; 
antennal fovea shallow, tapering anteriorly, indistinct; antennie very 
robust, last four joints tapering somewhat suddenly, third to fifth joints 
subequal, more robust; sheath not very broad, obtusely pointed, scopa 
not very long but dense; cerci short, tapering; claws with rather long 
jnner tooth; intercostal anterior to basal and almost at right angles 
with costa; wings otherwise normal; first transverse cubital wanting; 
stigma ovate at base, tapering regularly to apex. Color in general 
reddish orange; clypeus, labrum, bases of mandibles, inclined to pallid; 
head above elypeus and antenne, stripe on lateral lobes of mesonotum 
and sometimes on anterior lobe, scutellum, metanotum, lateral dorsal 
angle of first segment, narrow stripe along center of dorsum, termi- 
nating on next to last segment, lower third of mesepimera, and sheath 
black or dark brown; tips of hind tibiz and the hind tarsi strongly 
infuseated; veins, including stigma and costa nearly to base, dark 
brown; first transverse cubital hyaline, indistinct. 
Four females. Canada, Massachusetts, and Hlinois. (Coll. Am. Ent. 
Soc.) 
15. Pristiphora carolinensis new species. 
Male.—Length 5 mm.; rather slender; vertex without prominent 
ridges about anterior ocellus, somewhat roughened, with minute tuber- 
cles; frontal crest obsolete, fovea very shallow or nearly wanting; 
clypeus nearly truneate or very broadly and shallowly emarginate; 
