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tibiae, a narrow aiinuliis near their base, and the tarsi more or less 

 blackish; and the wings are very faintly dusky. Head scarcely 

 hollowed oiit behind; face broader than long; third segment of 

 labial palpi very short, hardly apparent; parapsidal fm-rows sharply 

 impressed, not distinctly foveolate; middle mesonotal lobe promi- 

 nent; first abdominal tergite delicately granular like the propodeum, 

 without carinae; remainder of abdomen polished, the second tergite 

 sometimes with very faint suggestion of fine reticulation; ovipositor 

 sheaths a little shorter than the body. 



Host. — fPhthorimaea striatella Murtfeldt. 



Known only from the four specimens comprising the type series. 

 These are from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 



36. BASSUS RUBRIPES (Cresson) 



Agathis rubripes Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 1872, p. 183. 



Type. — In the Philadelphia Academy of Science. 



This species differs from all related forms in combining a subrostri- 

 form face with closely granulai basal abdominal tergites, liind coxae, 

 and pro and meso pleura. Face as long as broad ; clypeus long, 

 strongly convex; labial palpi slender, the third segment not short- 

 ened, nearly as long as the second; malar space two-thirds to three- 

 fourths as long as the eyes; head strongly excavated behind; the 

 temples above bulging strongly posteriorly; antennae usually 26 to 

 29 segmented; parapsidal fm-rows impressed, minutely foveolate or 

 punctate; scutellum flat, polished, longer than broad at base; pro- 

 podeum rather long, only very slightly declivous posteriorly, mostly 

 closely granular, rugulose laterally, and with two median longitudinal 

 carinae that are very close and diverge only slightly posteriorly; 

 proplem*a, the mesopleura posteriorly, and the metapleura completely, 

 granular and opaque, the granulation being coarsest on the meta- 

 pleura and very fine on the mesopleura; posterior coxae closely gran- 

 ular and opaque; areolet of fore wing triangular, sessile; first abscissa 

 of mediella longer than the second; nervellu^somewhat angled and 

 emitting a distinct discoidella; first abdominal tergite short and 

 broad, conspicuously impressed basally, and with two more or less 

 distinct longitudinal keels bordering the basal impression; the surface 

 of this tergite finely granular and opaque; second tergite much 

 broader than long, evenly granular, but usually more finely so than 

 the first; third and following tergites polished; ovipositor sheaths as 

 long as the abdomen and propodeum combined. Head and thorax 

 entirely black; all coxae black; basal segment of all trochanters 

 more or less blackish; remainder of legs testaceous, except the tarsi 

 which are more or less dusky or blackish; wings somewhat infumated; 

 abdomen black with the second segment, and sometime the sides of 

 the apical segments, more or less rufous. 



