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face, mouth-parts, orbital lines on vertex, tegulse, line in front, another beneath, 

 scutelliuns and four anterior legs' except femora, yellowish white : coxse black, 

 remainder of legs dusky rufous ; antenute long, slender, black ; wings subhyaline, 

 nervures brown, stigma yellow, areolet small, petiolate, triangular ; thorax pol- 

 ished, robust ; metathorax with a moderately distinct longitudinal areolet; ab- 

 domen polislied, oval, elongate, truncate at extremity. 



(Taken from Provaiicher's description.) 

 One specimen from Ottawa, Canada. 



Cteiiopeliiia sanguiiie» Prov., Fauue Ent. Can. ii. 406. 



2 1) ■ — 8-10 mm. Ferruginous, with scutelknn, tegulfe and line beneath in J , 

 and in %, scutellums. tegulse, spot in front, line beneath, sternum, face, orbital 

 lines and mouth-parts, yellow: four anterior legs and prothorax yellowish ; wings 

 subliyaline, nervures brown: stigma yellow, slender, lanceolate; areolet small, 

 petiolate; transverse median nervure unites back of basal; transverse humeral 

 nervure of hind wing broken slightly below the middle; body polished, strongly 

 pilose; clypeus with transverse median carina; parapsidal grooves present: 

 carinse on metathorax small, rather indistinct; abdomen slender, smooth; ovi- 

 positor slightly exserted, guides broad ; petiole thick, oval above, slender. 



Eiglit specimens froin Canada, Delaware, New Jersey, Montana, 

 Idaho (Prof. Aldrich) and Washington. 



OETOPHORUS Foerster. 

 (Synopsis der Fam. und Gatt. der Ichneumonen, 1868.) 



Body shagreened, finely punctured, pleurse polished. Head in- 

 flated behind eyes, oval in front ; clypeus elevated and with oval, 

 transverse, median ridge. Thorax somewhat depressed, broad ; par- 

 apsidal grooves present ; carinae small, or nearly obsolete on meta- 

 thorax. Abdomen strong, subclavate in 9; ovipositor short, straight; 

 petiole oval above, smooth, slightly arched, considerably widened 

 toward apex. Wings with large, triangular stigma ; areolet present, 

 triangular, subsessile. 



Humeral cross nervure of hind wing broken at or above the middle. 



Abdominal segments with plain white apical margins; mesothorax rufous; 

 face yellow iiasoni n. sp. 



Abdomen and thorax black to piceous slretchii Cress. 



Humeral cross nervure broken far below the middle. 



Body mostly black OsflaviiK n. sp. 



Body ferruginous oculatuiii u. sp. 



Oetopliorus iiasoni n. sp. 



9. — 7mm. Black, with most of mesothorax, including scutellum, rufous- 

 apical and lateral margins of all the abdominal segments distinctly white; face, 

 scape beneath, mouth-parts, lower cheeks, prothorax except collar above, tegulse, 

 cuneiform line on margins of mesouotum, trochanters and four anterior coxse, 

 pale yellow; remainder of legs honey-yellow; antennte rufous, brown above; 

 wings hyaline, nervures and stigma brown, paler at base. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. SEPTEMBER, 1897. 



