242 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



ADEL.OGXATHUS Holmgren. 

 (Monographia Tryphonidum Sueciae, 196, 1858.) 



Head subbuccate ; clypeu.s large, arched, truncated, separated ; 

 labrura exserted, broad, convex ; antennae shorter than the body ; 

 metanotum not distinctly areolated ; abdomen polished, basal seg- 

 ment large and with a broad shallow basin on disc; ovipositor ex- 

 serted, short, straight ; areolet of the wings subpentangular ; poste- 

 rior tibise robust with short apical spurs. 



Adelognathus flavopictiis n. sp. 



% 9 • — 2 mm. Black, with entire face above and below antennje, scape, mouth- 

 parts, prothorax, tegulte, line beneath, sternum and lower mesopleurje in % , 

 legs, venter and abdomen above in 9 < on apex of second segment and base of 

 third is a median, transverse, oblong elliptical spot and apex of following seg- 

 ments are smaller spots decreasing in size toward apex, in %, the spots are less> 

 elongate and are on base of second segment, apex of second and base of third, 

 apex of third and base of fourth and ou apex of the following, yellowish white ; 

 antennfe blackish, enlarging toward apex ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures 

 and stigma brown ; areolet small. 



Three specimens; the females are from Michigan Agricultural 

 College and Illinois (Dr. Nason) ; the male has no locality label 

 but 8494, and is in the coll. U. S. Nat. Museum. The female types 

 are in the Agricultural College and coll. Davis. 



Adelognathus [Mesoleptm) rotuiidiceps Cress., Tr. A. E. S. iv. 167. 



% . — 3 mm. Pale ferruginous, with sutures of metathorax and apex of abdo- 

 men, subfuscous; wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma pale brown; areolet 

 pentangular, incomplete; body finely shagreened; clypeus not strongly pro- 

 truded ; basal segment of abdomen broadly petiolate and with spiracles in the 

 middle. 



One specimen from Texas and in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. * 



IfOTOlflERIS Foerster. 

 (Synopsis der Fara. und Gatt. der Ichueumonen, 1868.) 



Notomeris glabrosus n. sp. 



9 .—4.5 mm. ; ovipositor 1 mm. Black, with legs, mouth-parts, spot on front, 

 scape beneath, tegulse and an elliptical spot covering abdominal segments 2 4, 

 amber-yellow ; posterior tibije dusky on apical portion ; antennae dusky, yellowish 

 on apical half; flagellum slender at base, gradually thickening until near the 

 apex, segments not nodose at apex ; 12-jointed, .'second segment of scape long; 

 wings large, hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown, stigma black, large, triangular; 

 areolet incomplete, as in Hemiteles ; culiito-discoidal nervure broken and with a 

 long vein reaching into cell of the same : head large, wider than thorax, finely 

 shagreened. polished behind ; clypeus large ; labrum large, bristly, deeply exca- 

 vated in the middle ; thorax glabrous, without puncture ; parapsidal grooves 

 present anteriorly ; scutellum elevated, oval ; metathorax with supro- and postero- 

 median areas, the latter large and flat; abdomen shaped as in Sfilpnus, glabrous 

 spiracles of petiole at middle of segment ; venter white ; ovipositor large, straight. 



