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labrum short and broad, broadly truncate at apex; labial palpi short; 

 the third segment minute, sometimes indistinct; frontal impressions 

 shallow, immargined; occiput not strongly excavated; temples very 

 narrow, strongly receding; antennae very slender, about as long as 

 *he body, 36-segmented in the type; pronotal pits shallow, not mar- 

 gined; parapsidal furrows sharply impressed, very finely punctate, 

 the lobes well set off, the middle lobe prominent; furrow in front of 

 scutellum pitted; scutellum smooth, slightly convex, not margined 

 at apex; propodeum rugulose, usually not distinctly areolated; pro- 

 podeal spiracle small, short oval; pleura polished; mesopleural furrow 

 narrow, smooth, or finely foveolate; posterior coxae longer than broad, 

 polished; inner spur of hind tibia slightly longer than the outer and 

 nearly half as long as the basitarsus; apical segment of hind tarsi 

 about as long as- the third; radius arising from about the middle of 

 stigma; areolet triangular, subpetiolate, or with a short petiole; 

 nervulus postfurcal; first abscissa of mediella about as long as the 

 second, sometimes faintly shorter; nervellus usually a little angled 

 or curved above the middle; abdomen about as long as the head and 

 thorax combined; first tergite longer than broad at apex, only slightly 

 impressed at extreme base, rather evenly striate, and with two more 

 or less distinct dorsal longitudinal keels on the basal half; second and 

 third tergites each with a transverse impression, the second entirely 

 and the third except at apex closely longitudinally aciculate; tergites 

 beyond the third very short; ovipositor sheaths a little shorter than 

 the body. Head, thorax, and abdomen entirely ferrugino-testaceous; 

 antennae brownish black; legs uniformly yellowish ferruginous, apex 

 of hind tibiae and the hind tarsi more or less blackish; wings weakly 

 infumated. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



r^/pe.— Cat. No. 28681, U.S.N. M. 



Tyfe locality. — Louisiana. 



Described from seven females and six males, labeled ''Loui., Col- 

 lection C. F. Baker." In addition to the type series the National 

 Museum has one specimen from Opelousas, Louisiana, and one from 

 Jacksonville, Florida. 



9. BASSUS RUFOFEMORATUS, new species 



Distinguished particularly by the complete absence of parapsidal 

 furrows, the polished propodeum, the completely polished abdomen, 

 and the large sessile second cubital cell. 



Female.— Ijen^ih, 6.5 mm. Face rather flat, polished, distinctly 

 broader than long to the apex of clypeus; a slight median incision 

 on face below antennae; eyes large, attaining the vertex which is not 

 transversely convex ; malar space much less than half the eye-height ; 

 clypeus at least twice as broad as long; third segment of labial palpi 



