G. o. DAVIS. 279 



siflerahly broadened beyond the spiracles, carinate. longitudinally aciculate ou 

 post-petiole and basal half of segment 2 ; claws with a few long teeth near the base. 

 Two specimens from New York and Georgia (Canada, Prov.). 

 Tliis species may belong to tlie Ctenopelminii. More material is 

 needed to determine its exact location (type, coil. Quebec Museum j. 



SY^^OECETES Foerster. 

 (Synopsis der Faui. und Gatt. der Ichnenmonen, 1868.) 

 Head transverse ; face oval, densely covered with silvery pile, 

 clypeus elevated, slightly compressed laterally, rounded at apex; 

 antennae long, slender, segments not apically enlarged. Thorax 

 polished, finely punctured; parapsidal grooves slightly indicated; 

 scutellum oval ; metathorax with faint longitudinal carina?, the 

 median ones lying close together. iVbdomen elongate, pyriform in 

 9 , smooth, subpolished ; ovipositor not distinctly exserted ; petiole 

 straight, rather slender; gradually broadening, longitudinal carin^e 

 near together and reaching nearly to apex. 



Face black, clypeus yellow. 



Posterior coxiE rufous sednlliS Cress. 



Posterior coxse black or dusky festi Viis Cress. 



Face yellow; posterior coxse rufous propinquiis Cress. 



Syiioecetes sedtiluN Cress, (ilesoleptns). Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, 97. 



9 % . — 6-7 mm. Head and thorax black, abdomen and legs rufous; four an- 

 terior legs paler, and in % the trochanters and coxse are whitish ; clypeus, mouth- 

 parts and tegulse pale yellow ; antennte rufous ; petiole of abdomen is often dusky i 

 wings hyaline, nervures and stigma brown. 



Seven specimens from New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Con- 

 necticut and New Jersey (type, coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



Syiioecetes festiviis Cre.ss. (Triiphon), Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 279. 



9 % .--Same as above ex(;ept the posterior coxte are black or reddish black, and 

 the abdomen of the % is nearer black. 



Two specimens from Colorado and Illinois (type, coll. Am. E. S.). 



Syiieecetes propinquui« Cress. [Mesoleptus), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, 97. 



% . — 7 mm. Black ; with antennse, legs and more or less of median abdominal 

 segments, rufous; face, mouth-parts, scape beneath, tegulse, trochantei's and four 

 ar>terior coxse whitish yellow; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma yellow; the 

 abdomen is longer and the petiole more slender in this species than the other two. 



Two specimens from Massachusetts and Delaware (type, coll. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc). 



WESTWOODIA Provancher. 

 (Le Naturaliste Canadien, vii, .329, 1875.) 

 Body short, thickset and glabrous. Wings fuliginous, large ; 

 areolet present. Antennae short, thickened in the middle and taper- 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. SEPTEMBEli, 1897. 



