412 DESCRIPTIONS OF IOHNEUMONIDJE ASHMEAD. 



lei grooves extending from the base of each antenna to clypeus ; the 

 clypeus separated. The thorax is sparsely punctate, shining, the parap- 

 sidal grooves distinct; pleura and inetathorax rugulose; abdomen alu- 

 taceous; legs structurally as in C. violaceipennis. The wing areolet is 

 large, pentagonal, the cubitus with a long stump of a vein. 



Habitat.— Placer .County, Cal. 



Described from a single specimen received from Mr. Albert Kcebele. 



Cryptus ferrugineus sp. uov. 



Female.— Length 5.4 mm ; ovipositor 1.6 mm . Ferrugiuous; eyes and 

 teeth of mandibles alone black. Wings dusky hyaline. The antennae 

 are rather stout and the joints close set, the scape being large oval, the 

 third joint being a little longer than the fourth. The surface of the 

 head and thorax, although smooth and shining, exhibits a few small, 

 scattered punctures; parapsidal grooves indicated only anteriorly; 

 tegula? yellowish-white; pleura smooth; metathorax rugoso-punctate, 

 areolated; abdomen alutaceous. Areolet pentagonal, the cubitus with- 

 out a stump of a vein, the stigma and veins dark brown. 



Habitat. — Placer County, Cal. 



Described from a single specimen received from Mr. Albert Kcebele. 



Cryptus brevicauda sp. uov. 



Female. — Length 7.4 mm ; ovipositor 1.4 mm . Yellow ferruginous, smooth, 

 and shiuing; eyes and antenna? black. Antenna? involuted, subclavate, 

 two basal joints, yellow, joints 8 to 12, white. Thorax slightly stained 

 with brown, without grooves; metathorax areolated, the middle area 

 small, elongated, contracted at base. Abdomen smooth, except the 

 second segment, which is roughened basally. The legs are rather short 

 and stout. Wings hyaline, with a slight yellowish tinge; stigma yel- 

 low, veins pale brown ; the areolet is pentagonal, closed ; the outer 

 nervure, however, is pale. 



Habitat.— St. Louis, (?) Mo. 



Described from one specimen in Riley collection. 



Cryptus nebraskensis sp. uov. 



Female. — Length 7 mm ; ovipositor, 2.4 mm . Black, confluently piructate ; 

 spot on scape beneath, tip of joint 8 and joints 9 to 11 and base of joint 

 12 of antenna? above, orbits, two dots on face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, 

 two lines on collar, two short lines on disk of mesonotum, the scutel- 

 lum, teguhe, and a line beneath, a large spot on mesopleura, spot at 

 base of posterior wings, line on metathorax, including the spine, ante- 

 rior and middle coxa? and trochanters, and posterior tarsi, except basal 

 portion of the first joint, all white. The mesosternum and sides of 

 metathorax are brown; legs red; there is a black dot on anterior and 

 middle coxa? and trochanters; the abdomen is rufous at base aud black 

 beyond the middle of second segment, the apex of the segments all 



