ART. 16 WASPS OF THE SUBFAMILY BRACONINAE — MUESEBECK 69 



Illinois; Iowa; Anglesea, New Jersey; Nashville, Tennessee; and Can- 

 ada; and two specimens in the collection of the University of Illinois — 

 one from New Orleans, Louisiana, and one from Algonquin, Illinois. 



SPECIES OF BASSUS NOT INCLUDED IN THE KEY 



BASSUkS RUGAREOLATUS Viereck 



Bat<sus rugareolatus Viereck, Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1917 

 1 1916), pp. 228 and 229, 



Type. — In the agricultural experiment station at New Haven, 

 Connecticut. It is in poor condition, the abdomen being missing 

 and the antennae broken. The label indicates that the specimen is 

 a male. 



Because of the condition of the type and the unsatisfactory origi- 

 nal description, I have considered it unwise to place this species in 

 the key. It appears to be most similar to erijthrogaster; but the 

 malar space is longer than in that species and the face about as long 

 as broad; also the hind trochanters are black and the propodeum is 

 more strongly rugose. The ocell-ocular line is less than twice the 

 diameter of an ocellus; the vertex rather flat; third segment of labial 

 palpi longer than broad; parapsidal furrows shallow, smooth, most 

 sharply impressed anteriorly; mesopleural furrow polished: hind 

 femora and tibiae rather short and stout. Head and thorax black, 

 the metapleura slightly reddish; anterior and middle legs mostly 

 black; hind coxae and femora red, their trochanters, tibiae, and tarsi 

 black; wings infu seated. 



These brief notes are based on the type wliichis from New Haven, 

 Connecticut. 



BASSUS QUEBECENSIS (Provancher) 



Mkrodus quebecensis Puovancher, Natural Canad., vol. 12, 1880, p. 178. 



Type. — In the Museum of Public Instruction at Quebec, Canada. 



On the basis of the original description and notes made on the type 

 by S. A. Rohwer, this species appears to be laticinctus Cresson, and 

 I have httle doubt that is that species. However, because of certain 

 shght differences indicated by Mr. Rohwer, such as the presence of 

 converging furrows from the lateral ocelli to the base of the antennae, 

 an unusually long scape which is ''as long as the second and tliird 

 antennal segments," and the presence of a "poorly defined petiolate 

 areola" on the propodeum, I have thought it better not to synony- 

 mize the species with laticinctus at present. 



7BASSUS VERTICALIS (Cresson) 



Mirrodus veriicalis Cuesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 1872, p. 182. 



I have been unable to locate the type of this species, and since the 

 original description is not sufficiently distinctive, verticalis has not 



