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Var. clypeatuM Pro v., Faune Eat. Can. ii, 412. 



% . — Differs in iiaving the abdomen black or piceous. 

 Six specimens from C/anada, IMaine, Massachusetts, New Jersey 

 and Montana (type, coll. Q.uebec Museum). 



ZACAL.IiES Foerster. 

 (Synopsis der Fam. und Gatt. der lohneumonen. 1868.) 

 Zacalles niagiiii!« n. sp. 



9. — 18 mm. Dull rufous with abdominal segments beyond the middle of tlie 

 third, piceous; legs paler, mesonotum and vertex brownish; wings yellowish. 

 fusco-hyaline, nervures brown; stigma yellow, lanceolate; areolet oblique, tsub- 

 sessile; second discoidal curved and uniting with outer transverse cubital; third 

 discoidal cell at base only half as wide as the transverse median nervure; the 

 latter unites somewhat back of basal ; humeral cross-nervure of hind wing broken 

 above middle; head flat disc-shaped, shagreened, pilose; eyes and ocelli reddish ; 

 front with oval median ridge, punctured; clypeus slightly elevated, transverse 

 impression on apical portion and emarginate at apex; antennae strong: thorax 

 shagreened, punctured and pilose; mesonotum subtrilobed ; scutellum elevated, 

 oval, gradually sloping down at apex ; metathorax with prominent carinse. the 

 basal transverse carina wanting ; apical median area with median carina; abdo- 

 men smooth, broadly oval and curved; ovipositor slightly exserted ; basal seg- 

 ment broad, but little narrowed at base, carinte prominent, reaching nearly to 

 base, spiracles median, tuberculate. 



One specimen from New Hampshire (type, coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



AFIMEI.es Foerster. 

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

 Apinieles liisorious n. sp. 



9 . — 4 mm. Piceous brown, witli abdomen brownish honey-yellow, basal seg- 

 ment darker; legs yellowish white with posterior tibiae white, brown at extreme 

 apex; antennae reddish brown, paler at base; mouth-parts rufo-jnceous; tegulae 

 yellow; wings large, hyaline, nervures and stigma brown; areolet small, ob- 

 liquely quadrangular, as broad above as below; stigma very broad and short, 

 sublanceolate ; second recurrent nervure straight; cubito-discoidal nervure 

 broken, but without stump of vein ; third discoidal cell much narrowed at base . 

 humeral cross-nervure indistinctly broken below the middle; body, even to 

 metanotum, highly polished, sparsely punctured and finely pilose; head disc- 

 shaped, oval on front; clypeus large, elevated, broadly rounded at apex ; antennae 

 shorter than body, rather strong and with two basal members somewhat elongate ; 

 thorax gibbous, parapsidal grooves present anteriorly ; metathorax completely 

 and distinctly areolated ; abdomen strong, smooth, ])olished ; second segment 

 broadening fastest; basal segment subsessile, gradually widening toward apex; 

 dorsal carinae faint; ovipositor ventral, large, broadly cultiform and curved 

 upward as a hook at apex ; apical ventral segment large. 



One specimen from eastern Canada (type, coll. Amer. Ent. 8oc. ). 



EPAC'HTES Foerster. 

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

 Epaclifes basilicuM n. sp. 



9 %. — 5 mm. Black, with abdomen beyond petiole jiale rufous, rarely with 



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



