THe HyMeENoptrera OF MINNESOTA 169 
tus Cress., Ascogaster rufipes Prov., Schioprymnus texanus Cress., 
Urosigalphus robustus Ashm., Earimus limitaris Say, Aleiodes ab- 
dominalis Cress. and the genera Microtypus, Meteorus, (St. Louis 
Co., Aug. 13), Orgilus, Brachistes and Heterospilus. An unidentified 
Aleiodes was captured in Roseau Co., Aug. 19, and Macrocentrus, sp. 
taken near Duluth, Aug. 14, and Blacus, sp. Sept. 1, at Itasca Park. 
Triaspis was found in Rock Co. in Sept. 
CAPERONIED Ags 
Abdomen inserted high up on _ pro- 
podeum, in middle or above middle of 
latter; upper edge of hind coxal sockets 
or coxal line remote from lower edge 
of abdominal sockets or abdominal line. 
Mesothorax with its sternum and its 
pleurae, or at least the latter, more or 
less divided into an anterior and pos- 
terior portion by the presence of a 
carina or suture, in other words with a 
prepectus as indicated by Snodgrass. 
Second and third tergites as in Alysii- 
dae. 
Only one genus, Capitonius, 
found in the United States. See 
Rohwer’s key to the species, 
Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 
DEEN ioe o kG: 
Fig. 47. Capitonius ashineadi D. T. 
C. ashmeadii D. T. found in Min- 
nesota has been bred from Sterni- 
dius alpha, living in the pith of 
Rhus glabra. 
EVANIIDAE 
Abdomen inserted high up on propo- 
deum in middle or above middle of latter, 
upper edge of hind coxal sockets or coxal 
line remote from lower edge of abdominal 
socket or abdominal line. Abdomen al- 
ways with more than two dorsal segments. _ 
Fig. 48. Hyptia harpyoides Bradley 
The Evaniids are called by 
Comstock, “ensign flies” because they carry the abdomen aloft like a 
flag. 
