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middle cnxfe, scutellums. most of metatliorax, more or less of dorsal portions of 

 al)dominal segments, four anterior legs, hind troehanters and base of tihia?: an- 

 tennae pale, more or less dusky in the middle; wings hyaline, slightly dusky at 

 tip; costal margin and stigma pale. 



Six speciineus, Canada, New York, Massachusetts and Moscow, 

 Idaho (J. M. Aldrich), Philadelphia (Chas. W. Johnson), Mt. 

 Washington, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson), Illinois (Dr. Nasonj. Type, 

 coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. 



Euceros HaveNCeiis Cress.. Can. Ent. i, 105. 



9.— Diflers iu being fulvo-ferruginous with no distinct yellow markings; the 

 face varies from blackish red to black ; antennae also vary the same ; the % has 

 essentially the same pale markings that medialis 9 has, but the antennse are 

 characteristic in color of Jlavescens J : the two species will probably be found to 

 be synonymous, but the material is too limited to deal definitely with them at 

 present ; the markings are somewhat variable. 



Two females, Connecticut and Virginia ; two males Virginia and 

 Illinois (Dr. Nason). Type, coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. 



SCOPIORUS Foerster. 

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

 Head transvei-se, flat, somewhat inflated beneath antennte; face 

 strongly pilose, clypeus with long bristles ; clypeus narrow^ elliptical, 

 arched, and with small transverse ridge near the middle ; antennae 

 long, thickened in the middle, tapering toward apex. Thorax 

 broad, gibbous, pilo.se, coarsely punctured ; i)arapsidal grooves want- 

 ing ; scutellum triangular, elevated; metathorax areolated, basal 

 transverse carina wanting ; abdomen broad, depressed, subconipi-essed 

 at apex in 9 ; coarsely and often rugosely punctured on basal seg- 

 ments ; segments 1 and 2 and sometimes 3 with distinct transverse 

 impression before the apex ; basal segment broadly sessile and with 

 carina at base ; ovipositor exserted, and when protrtided is pushed 

 beneath and curved anteriorly, shields broad ; wings with the areolet 

 usually wanting, sometimes incomplete or variable ; stigma broad, 

 thick, triangular, more abrupt on apical side than on basal ; humeral 

 cross nervure of hind wing broken much below the middle. 



Thorax and body rufous gillettei n. sp. 



Thorax black, lower pleurae sometimes yellow. 

 Posterior coxae black ; abdomen mostly black. 



Hind legs mostly black or dusky, trochanters pale ex|>»ii!«si n. sp. 



Hind legs entirely pale, except coxae and trochanters Iiiiitiiw n. sp. 



Posterior coxae rufous. 



Abdomen black, with apical margins of segments yellow: lower pleurae 

 yellow in 9 qiiebe<*tMisis Prov. 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. (3.3) SEPTEMBER, l.-ii)7. 



