426 DESCRIPTIONS OF ICHNEUMONID.E ASHMEAD. 



and the spurs white. Metathorax slopiug, prolonged at apex beyond 

 the insertion of the hind coxae. Abdomen long, slender, about twice 

 the length of head and thorax together, the petiole slender, knobbed 

 at apex, as long as the posterior trochanters and femora combined, 

 pale in the middle, black at base and apex, the second segment is not 

 quite as long as the petiole; black above, the third, fourth, and fifth 

 segments ferruginous, dusky above, the following segments black : 

 Wings hyaline, iridescent; stigma and veins piceous. 



Habitat. — Missouri. 



Described from one specimen in the Riley Collection. 



EXOCHILUM Wesmael. 



Exochilum texanum sp. nor. 



Male. — Length 19 min . Head and thorax brown, punctate, covered 

 with a fine black pubescence; face, clypeus, and palpi yellowish; an. 

 tenure orange-yellow, the first three joints black above; parapsidal 

 grooves distinct, converging and meeting before attaining the seutel- 

 lum ; anterior and middle legs reddish-yellow ; posterior legs black, the 

 coxae brown at base, basal two-thirds of tibiae and the tarsi yellowish, 

 the basal joint of the tarsi about thrice as long as the second. Abdo- 

 men black, the petiole and a small spot at base of the second segment 

 brown. 



Wings glossy black ; the discoidal cells equal, rectangular. 



Habitat.— Texas. 



Described from one specimen. 



SCHIZOLOMA Wesmael. 

 Schizoloma confusa sp. uov, 



Female. — Length 27 ram . Black ; the petiole, most of the second ab- 

 dominal segment, and the basal half of the third above red; anterior 

 orbits beyond insertion of antennae, a dot at summit of eyes, posterior 

 orbits, face medially, clypeus, except the anterior margin, the prominent 

 protruding labium, a line on inner side of mandibles and the palpi 

 yellow. 



The head and thorax are punctate, vertex r-ugoso-puuctate, covered 

 with black hairs; parapsidal grooves wanting; scutellum profoundly 

 foveated at base, the posterior portion being very high, cushion- 

 shaped ; metathorax coarsely rugoso-reticulate and somewhat hollowed 

 medially. 



The anterior and middle legs, excepting coxae and the posterior tarsi, 

 are orange-yellow, all coxae, the hind femora toward the apex and tibiae 

 black; the basal joint of hind tarsi is less than four times as long as 

 the second. 



Wings black; tegulae and a slight streak along basal part of costae 

 orange-yellow; the submediau cell is longer than the median; the first 



