AUT. 16 WASPS OF THE SUBFAMILY BRACONINAE MUESEBECK 53 



The above notes are from the following material : Twenty specimens 

 in the United States National Museum from Ottawa, Ontario; St. 

 John, New Brunswick; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Bar Harbor 

 and Mount Desert, Maine; Long Island, New York; Harrisburg, Penn- 

 sylvania; Vienna, Virginia; and Washington, District of Columbia 

 (reared from Eucosma desertana Zeller under Bureau of Etomology No. 

 3212) ; and eight specimens in the collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, which are from Gloucester, Provincetown, Cohasset, 

 and Newton, Massachusetts; Mount Washington, New^ Hampshire; 

 and Mount Desert, Eastport, and Bar Harbor, Maine. 



27. BASSUS LATICEPS, new species 



Very close to terminatus, but separated from that species without 

 difficulty by means of the characters included in the key. 



Female. — Length, 5 mm. Head transverse, broad, broader than the 

 thorax, rather strongly hollowed out behind; face very much broader 

 than long; eyes rather small, not reaching the vertex; temples and 

 cheeks broad and bulging distinctly beyond the eyes; malar space 

 about tliree-fourths the eye height; clypeus more or less elevated 

 anteriorly; labrum largo, rather long, rounded at apex; palpi slender; 

 third segment of labial palpi not shortened, nearly as long as the 

 fourth; frontal impressions immargined; ocelli small; ocell-ocular line 

 more than thi'ee times the diameter of an ocellus; antennae slender, not 

 tapering to the tip, 25-segmented in the type; scape rather long and 

 slender; pedicel longer than broad; abroad, low, backwardly project- 

 ing triangular elevation between antennae; thorax rather stout ; meso- 

 sciitum polished; parapsidal furrows sharply impressed, usually weakly 

 foveolate; scutellum at least as broad as long, polished, indistinctly 

 roughened at apex; propodeum weakly rugulose, with two more or 

 less distinct, median carinae; posterior face of propodeum strongly 

 declivous, the dorsal face rather short; propodeal spiracle very small, 

 nearly round; pleura polished; mesopleural furrow straight, sharply 

 impressed, usually finely foveolate; coxae polished; posterior coxae 

 broad and a little shorter than the first tergite; posterior tibiae with 

 a rather conspicuous backwardly projecting flange at apex bearing 

 three or four short blunt spines; spurs of hind tibiae short, the inner 

 spur only about one-thhd the basitarsus; posterior basitarsus dis- 

 tinctly less than half the hind tibiae; last segment of hind tarsus a 

 little shorter than the second but longer than the third; areolet of 

 fore wing triangular, usually shortly petiolate; first abscissa of 

 mediella a little longer than the second; nervellus usually angled 

 above the middle and emitting a distinct discoidella from this angle; 

 first abdominal tergite about as broad at apex as long, polished, 

 without two dorsal longitudinal keels; remainder of abdomen also 



