a. c. DAVIS. 253 



slender, rapidly widened behind the spiracles; dorsal carinje prominent, post- 

 petiole and second segment longitudinally aciculate ; legs strong, posterior coxse 

 short. 



Two specimens from Connecticut (type, coll. Am. Ent. Soc). 



Syniplierta? niiieolor Cress. {3Iesoleptvs). Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 271. 



9 . — 7 mm. Uniform brownish yellow ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma 

 brown ; stigma very large, rounded on the inner side and with marginal nervure 

 uniting toward the base: areolet large, oblique, slightly petiolate : third discoidal 

 cell strongly narrowed at base, the nervure above being strongly bent near the 

 base ; humeral cross nervure of hind wing broken much above the middle ; head 

 small, inflated ; eyes well set in the head ; antennae long, slender: clypeus oval, 

 rounded at apex and with only slight groove at base ; parapsidal grooves present ; 

 metathorax completely areolated, the carinse small, median areas small, elongate ; 

 abdomen subclavate, smooth above; ovipositor short, straight : petiole gradually 

 widening toward apex, without carinje or groove. 



Three specimens, Pennsylvania, Canada and Delaware (type, coll. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc). 



tX'ZETESIS Foerster. 

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

 Eczetesis |>aiiiwcoide$« Ashm.. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiii, 197. 



J. — 8-10 mm. Honey-yellow, with abdomen darker toward apex : face, pro- 

 thorax and tarsi paler; antennse long, slender ; wings large, hyaline, iridescent, 

 nervures and stigma color of body ; areolet triangular, slightly petiolate, cubito- 

 discoidal nervure strongly arched, but not broken, humeral cross nervure of hind 

 wiug l)roken slightly above the middle ; no parapsidal grooves, metathorax smooth 

 and without carinse ; abdomen slender, subcompressed toward apex, petiole 

 straight, ovipositor exserted. 



The % de.scribed by Mr. Ashmead is Patiiscus albotarsatus Prov. 

 The two species can be easily separated by the marginal nervure, 

 which is broken above the areolet in Paniscus and not Eczetesis. 



Three females Central Park, N. Y. (Ashm.), Algonquin, 111. (Dr. 

 Na.son), and Montgomery County, Pa. (Johnson j. Type, coll. 

 Ashmead. 



PRIOIVOFODA Holmgren. 

 (Monographia Tryphonidum Suecise, 120, 18o6.) 

 Frionopoda (?) begiiiii Ashm., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxiii. 198. 



%. — 7 mm. Black, with apical portion abdominal segments 1 and 2, apical 

 half of 3 and basal half of 4, with most of tlje legs, rufous: four anterior coxae 

 and trochantei's, apical half of posterior trochanters, tegulae, mandibles, pali)i and 

 base of tibiae, yellowish white; ape.x of posterior tibiae and tarsal segments dusky, 

 hind coxae black ; head large, broad, clypeus wanting ; face coarsely pun(ttured and 

 pilose; thorax punctured, abdomen shagreened ; metathorax areolated, basal 

 transverse carina wanting, spiracles oval ; petiole of abdomen much as in Cdnipo- 

 legini, to which it should probably be referred. It is a % instead of a 9 • 



Described from type specimen, Sherbrook, Canada (coll. Ashm.). 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. SEPTEMBKR. 1897. 



