of the Hymenopterous genera Clejjtes, ^^c. 455 



tegulfe strongly punctured, tinged with green and having 

 their outer margin pak^ testaceous; wings pale fulvo*^ 

 hyaline ; the post-scutellum nearly quadrate, a little longer 

 than broad, deeply notched in the middle of the posterior 

 margin. The apical segment with two large deep foveas 

 near its apical margin, which is denticulated. 

 Hab. — North Carolina. 



Genus Anthracias. 



Anthracias, Klug, Berichte iiber die Verhand.der Akad. 

 Berlin, 1839, p. 2. 



Of this genus I have only seen a single imperfect speci- 

 men ; it is destitute of wings and has only one posterior 

 tarsus. Klug, in the " Berichte," has not given detailed 

 generic characters, but he mentions the essential one, that 

 of the abdomen being composed above of only two seg- 

 ments ; beneath, four are distinctly visible, exclusive of its 

 retractile ovipositor ; the claws of the tarsi have a single 

 tooth beneath ; the antennae resemble those of CJirysis, the 

 second joint being only half the length of the third, the 

 fourth joint about equal to the second, as are all the follow- 

 ing joints. The insect has the exact resemblance of 

 Parnopes, to which it is closely allied. In the specimen 

 examined there is not a projecting rostrum as in Parnopes, 

 but, the insect being in a mutilated condition, it may pos- 

 sibly be broken off. 



1. Anthracias Capensis. 

 Female. — Length 5 lines. Head, thorax and apex ot 

 the abdomen black, the rest ferruginous ; strongly punc- 

 tured. Head and thorax very coarsely, closely and deeply 

 punctured ; the eyes large and ovate ; the head iiarroAved 

 and rounded behind the eyes ; mandibles rufo-piceous in 

 the middle. Thorax: the prothorax oblong, flattened 

 above and slightly concave in front ; its anterior margin 

 transverse, the lateral margins parallel anteriorly to nearly 

 half its length, from thence obliquely inclined outwardly 

 to the teguljB of the wings ; the metathorax truncate pos- 

 teriorly, the margin of the truncation raised and acute ; the 

 tibia3 and tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen : the first scginent 



and edentate; the apical third of the abdomen black, tlie 



