234 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



posterior median area is nearly square, not broad, and with spines 

 at the sides ; scutellum narrow, oval. 



Scutellum and most of mesothorax rufous ralifornicus Cress. 



Scutellum black, yellowish at tip ; thorax black, with yellow markings. 



albiline}itu<«i Walsh. 

 Anderis californicns Cress. (Ctem>iCHs). Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1878, 374. 

 % . — 6 mm. Black, with mesopleura, sternum, two lateral stripes on notum. 

 lateral spots on metanotum, posterior coxaj and femora rufous ; face, mouth-parts, 

 cheeks, scape beneath, pectus, line above, line on anterior mesopleura, tegrulse, 

 spot in front, line beneath, capillary line extending from hind wings back of 

 scutellum, postscutellum. apical margins of second and following segments of 

 abdomen four anterior coxie and all trochanters, white ; wnigs hyaline, nervures 

 and stigma brown : antennsE black, yellowish beneath ; head and thorax polished, 

 punctured : metathorax scabrous, with broad apex and rough tuberculate angles; 

 abdomen finely punctured, polished ; two basal segments closely punctured, 

 second segment without distinct oblique grooves, basal segment with strong carinse. 



Type only, from California (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. ), 



Anderis albiliiieatiis Walsh (Ctenificus). Trans. St. Louis Acad, iii, 107. 

 Cteniscus apicatns Prov., Faune Ent. Can. ii, 421, % . 

 9 % . — 6-8 mm. Black, with face, cheeks, mouth-parts, scape beneath, tegulse, 

 line beneath, spot in front, pectus, anterior mesosternum with the line extending 

 onto anterior pleura, four anterior coxae and trochanters, apical part of posterior 

 trochanter and apical margins of the second and following ab.lominal segments 

 white; scutellums varies from entirely black to almost entirely white; the four 

 anterior legs pale rufous ; posterior tibife and tarsi black, femora black to piceous. 

 or sometimes subrufous, coxfe rufous in 9 • black, or with white spot above in %, ; 

 basal trochanter black or blackish; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma brown, 

 pale at base; metathorax truncate and with strong carinse, which terminate at 

 the angles in prominent spines; basal segment of abdomen with carinate lateral 

 margins and median carinse ; segment one and basal portion of two and three 

 closely and roughly punctured ; claws sparsely pectinate. 



One female and five males, from Colorado, Illinois, Michigan and 

 Canada. 



AlVECPHYSIS Foerster. 

 (Synopsis d. Familien und Gattungen d. Ichneumonen, 18fi8.) 



Foerster characterizes this genus by lacking the ear-like projections 

 at the base of the petiole as found in Exydon. The representative 

 of this genus before me also differs from Exyston by having the 

 petiole as broad at base as at apex and with the third abdominal 

 seo-ment broad and depressed so that the second segment broadens 

 very rapidly. 



Aneepliysis cnrvinenra n. sp. 



9 '^ . — 7 mm. Black, with face, orbital lines at side of antennje, mouth-parts, 

 tegulie, line beneath, scutellums, four anterior coxae, all trochanters, apex of 

 posterior femora, base and annulus in middle of posterior tibife, spot on central 



