G. C. DAVIS. 305 



Second abdominal segment polished ; scutellum, lateral margins of mesonotum 

 and apical margins of abdominal segments yellow • . -perennis n. sp. 



Second abdominal segment strongly shagreened ; scutellum and margins of meso- 

 notum not yellow pleuralis Prov. 



Eclytus pereiinis u. sp. 



% 9 • — Head varies from yellow with black spot enclosing ocelli to having the 

 upper half, except orbital lines, black, sometimes partly rufous; thorax vai-ies 

 from having the dorsal half black, with scutellum, stripe on margins of mesono- 

 tum, stigma, spot in front, spot beneath, and all of lower half yellow, to having 

 the lower half and mesonotum rufous with upper yellow markings as liefore ; 

 abdomen black to piceous, with apical margins of segments distinctly yellow ; 

 legs yellow, somewhat tinged with fuscous; antennge dusky yellow, scape yellow 

 beneath ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma yellowish brown; head 

 and mesonotum polished in %, finely punctured in 9 ; abdomen polished, basal 

 segment shagreened in 9 . 



Tlii'ee specimens from New Ham2)shire and New York (types, 

 coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. and Davis). 



Eclytiis pleuralis Prov., Faune Ent. Can. ii. 408. 



% 9 • — ■1^6 mm. Black, with face, mouth-parts, cheeks, orbital lines, usually 

 broken above, prothorax, sternum, meso- and metapleurse, tegulse, legs usually, 

 narrow apical margins of abdominal segments and venter yellow or rufous: an- 

 tennse dark brown, stape yellow beneath; wings hyaline iridescent, nervures and 

 stigma yellowish brown ; head, mesonotum and pleura quite coarsely and closely 

 punctured ; three basal segments of abdomen and sometimes the whole of the 

 abdomen strongly shagreened. 



Five specimens from New Hampshire, Michigan and Washington, 

 Canada (Prov.) 



POCYOIVCIIS Foerster. 

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

 Tlie four species placed under this genus may be easily recognized 

 by having the large subcubical head deeply excavated behind. The 

 stigma is large, rather deep ; areolet present, triangular, subsessile ; 

 the humeral cross- vein of hind wing scarcely broken ; second recur- 

 rent nervure straight and not broken. Metathorax distinctly and 

 usually completely areolated, the carina between the first and second 

 lateral areas being absent or indistinct in some specimens ; petiole 

 of abdomen considerably broadened toward apex. 



Wings smoky, abdominal segments margined with yellow . . . .platyiius n. sp. 

 Wings subhyaline. 



Pleura and abdomen black inentali!>> n. sp. 



Pleura black, abdomen black, with lateral and apical parts rufous. 



iiiiieii»i> n. sp. 



Pleura and band on segments 2 and 3 honey-yellow i^iibiirbe n. sji. 



TRANS. .\M. ENT. SOC. XXIV. (39) NOVEMBKK, 1897. 



