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The face is umisually short and broad; eves short oval, broad; 

 makir space short; third segment of labial palpi very small, trans- 

 verse, sometimes indistinct; temples with a conspicuous bulge, or 

 broad rounded tubercle opposite the middle of the eyes; ocell-ocular 

 line less than twice the diameter of an ocellus and not greater than 

 the postoccllar line; antennae long and slender, from 32 to 40 seg- 

 mented; thorax rather long and narrow; parapsidal furrows sharply 

 impressed and foveolate; the middle mesonotal lobe narrow and some- 

 what elevated; scutcllum small, more or less distinctly carinately 

 margined at the apex ; propodeum rugoso-reticulate, with two usually 

 prominent, slightly curved median carinae down the middle that con- 

 verge toward the base and also toward the apex, inclosing a long 

 median area that extends the length of the propodeum; mesopleural 

 furrow narrow, usually finely loveolate; areolet of fore wing triangular, 

 oblique, petiolate ; radial cell very narrow ; posterior basitarsus long and 

 slender, usually longer than the remaining segments of liind tarsi com- 

 bined; abdomen slender; first tergite distinctly longer than broad at 

 apex, usually weakly longitudinally sculptured, but sometimes almost 

 polished; second tergite with a more or less distinct curved trans- 

 verse furrow near its middle, usually completely polished like the 

 third and following tergites; ovipositor sheaths about as long as the 

 body or nearly. Head, thorax, and abdomen varying from entirely 

 black to practically entirely testaceous ; usually, however, the head 

 is black with more or less of the face and cheeks ferruginous, the thorax 

 mostly black and the abdomen black at base and apex; wings hya- 

 line; legs, including all coxae, pale testaceous, except the hind tibiae 

 which are whitish, with the apex and a narrow incomplete annulus 

 at base black, and the hind tarsi which are black, with the base of 

 the basal segment white. 



These notes are based on a considerable number of specimens, as 

 follows: The types of all the species listed in the above synonymy; 

 28 specimens, all from Illinois, in the collection of the University of 

 Illinois; 2 in the collection of the Boston vSociety of Natural History, 

 from Ashland Junction, Maine, and Weston, Massachusetts; and 44 

 specimens in the United States National Museum, including 6 which 

 were reared from Pithinolophus indentaia Dyar at East River, Con- 

 necticut, by C. R. Ely; 1 recorded as a parasite of Ancylis comptana 

 Frolich, in Virginia, under Bureau of Entomology No. 3552X; 1 

 labeled "Parasite on f Coelostathma disco punctana, Washington, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Chittenden No. 6815"; and collected specimens 

 from Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Alabama, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, low^a, New Hampshire, and 

 Canada. 



