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parts, cheeks, scutellurn, te.gulse, spot iu front and beneath, broad line on lateral 

 margins of mesonotum, pectus and four anterior coxiB and trochanters yellowish 

 white ; remainder of four anterior legs and trochanters, base of tihite and the 

 tarsi of hind legs, honey-yellow ; abdomen rufous beyond the black petiole ; an- 

 tennte yellow on apical half; posterior coxse, femora and apical half of tibise. 

 black ; head very broad and considerably inflated behind ; eyes small, well set 

 out; face broad, oval; antennse widely separated at the base; clypeus abruptly 

 depressed at apex ; base of mandibles fully their width from the eyes ; thorax 

 depressed, parapsidal grooves present; metathorax without carinfe, except the 

 one beneath the spiracles: abdomen slender at base, broad and subclavateatapex ; 

 segments smooth, apical segments polished ; petiole oval, smooth, slender, post- 

 petiole broad; head and thorax closely and finely punctured, shagreened, pilose; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, areolet small, oblique, petiolate ; legs long, slender; 

 ovipositor slightly exserted. 



One specimen from Canada (coll. Amer. Eut. Soc). 



L,A.PHYROS€OPlIS Foerster. 



(Synopsis der Fam. and Gatt. der Icbneumonen, 1868.) 



Liapliyroscopus capitatus Cress. {Tryphon), Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 281. 



9 % . — 4 mm. Honey-yellow, with spot enclosing ocelli, meso- and metanotum, 

 scutellum and abdomen except segment 3 and the venter, black ; antennae brown, 

 with scape and base of flagellum honey-yellow; wings hyaline, with nervures 

 p»le brown, white at base, stigma broad, dark brown, areolet wanting; humeral 

 cross-vein of hind wing broken below the middle; thorax smooth, shagreened ; 

 metathorax without carinse ; parapsidal grooves indicated ; abdomen smooth, and, 

 beyond petiole, polished, subcompressed and truncate in 9 ! petiole coarsely 

 shagreened, spiracles tuberculate in % . 



Three females and two males from Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, 

 Texas and Georgia (types, coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



POIiYCINETUS Foerster. 

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



Abdomen black ; legs rufous I i mat lis Cress. 



Abdomen rufous ; hind legs mostly black solitai'iu!^ n. sp. 



Polyciiietiis liiuatus Cress. (Tri/phon), Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. 274. 



% 9- — 9 mm. Black and highly polished, with legs ferruginous, except hind 

 tarsi, apex of their femora and tibise which are dusky, more or less white on basnl 

 half of latter, most so in 9 '. mouth-parts, tegulte, point in front, line beneath, 

 and in %, face and scape beneath, yellow; antennte reddish brown; wings hya- 

 line, areolet petiolate, oblique. 



One female and two males from Delaware, New York and Mon- 

 tana (type, coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



Polyciiietiis solitarius n. sp. 



9 . — 10 mm. Black ; abdomen rufous except petiole, which is black : clypeus, 

 with two vertical stripes above and the mouth-parts except teeth, orange-yellow ; 

 tegulfe, spot in front, line beneath, anterior legs, middle legs except coxse and 

 basal two-thirds of posterior tibite, dirty-white; antennie dark brown, large, long 



TRANS. .VM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. NOVEMBER, 1897. 



