G. C. DAVIS. 291 



Boelliiis alaiiigeii!!« ii. sji. 



5>.— 5 mm. Pale lufuiis, with aiiteuiiffi, spot enclosing ocelli, posterior tarsi 

 and apex of their tibite black, cubito-ciiscoidal uervure bent and with a stump 

 of a vein extending into the cubito-discoidal cell. 



One specimen from San Bernardino County, California (type, 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Boetliiis glabrauotus u. sp. 



9.-5 mm. Dusky rufous, with head, except cheeks, mouth-parts and supra- 

 orbital spot, pectus, sternum, pleural, entire metathorax and the coxie. black. 

 posterior tibise and tarsi piceous; mandibles except teeth and the clypeus whitish 

 yellow; antennae brownish black; abdomen slightly narrowed and more com- 

 pressed at apex than in the two preceding species. 



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



ATITHASUS Foerster. 

 (Synopsis der Fam. uud Gatt. der Ichueumoneu. 1868.) 

 Atitliasus stellariiis n. sp. 



9 % ■ — 6 Qiui- Black, with clypeus, mouth-parts, tegulte and spot in front, and 

 in %, scape beneath and two triangular spots reaching from scape to clypeus, 

 white; scutellums in 9 rufous, in % black; legs golden yellow with tarsi, apex 

 of tibise and femora in hind legs black ; posterior tibise and basal segment of hind 

 tarsi behind, whitish ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma brownish 

 black ; stigma large, lanceolate ; areolet, small, oblique, incomplete generally, 

 sometimes wanting in one wing; body shagreeued, pleurse and apical portion of 

 abdomen polished ; head disc-shaped, face oval, clypeus transverse, strongly 

 curved under on apical portion, parapsidal grooves present, pleurae sparsely 

 punctured, metathorax with median areolets distinct; abdomen elongate, but 

 little broadened beyond basal segment, even above, ovipositor slightly exserted. 

 basal segment broad, oval above, not contracted until close to base, spiracles 

 without carinse from them to apex, no carinte but a depression at base ; legs 

 slender, coxfe and femora short, posterior tibiae extremely long and slender, 

 curved with short black bristles and with short heavy tibial spurs, tarsi moder- 

 ately long, apical segment fully as long as the third and slightly curved. 



Four specimens from Texas (types, coll. Am. Ent. Soc. and Davis). 



SPITD^A Foerster. 

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



Spiidiea ovale n. sp. 



9. — 7 mm. Black, with clypeus, mouth-parts, tegulae. and dot before, yellow; 

 sometimes scutellura is tipped with rufous; legs dark honey-yellow, with poste- 

 rior tarsi and apical third of tibia?, piceous: antennae reddish brown; wings 

 subhyaline, nervures and stigma dark brown; stigma thick, broad, lanceolate; 

 areolet wanting, second discoidal uniting considerably back of transverse cubital, 

 transverse median nervure interstitial with basal; head slightly inflated, i)ilose, 

 shagreened ; face oval, full ; clypeus rather narrow, three sided at ape'x, median 

 emargination ; thorax depressed above, parapsidal gi-ooves present; -scutellum 

 somewhat elevated ; metathorax oval, truncate behind, scabrous, carinas distinct, 

 transverse basal wanting, basal median area small, apical large ; abdomen scab- 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. OCTOBER, 1397. 



