a. c. DAVIS. 325 



ceous ; four anterior tibise and tarsi paler; wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma 

 brown : areolet small, petiolate, oval ; transverse median nervure uniting slightly 

 before the basal ; head pilose, punctured and shagreened ; face swollen beneath 

 antennsE. coarsely punctured ; clypens transverse, depressed at apex ; palpi pice- 

 ous, antennte rather large; mandibles broad at apex; thorax finely but closely 

 punctured and pilose: pleurai with central polished spot; mesonotum subtrilobed ; 

 metathorax areolated, carinse prominent, basal transverse carina' absent, posterior 

 median area polished; abdomen slender, subcompressed at apes, coarsely punc- 

 tured at base, polished, scarcely excavated above at apex; sheaths of ovipositor 

 exserted, broad ; petiole irregularly ridged and grooved longitudinally, arched 

 where the tubercuiate spiracles are located, slender at base, gradually widened. 

 One specimen from Labrador (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



ASYMMICTUS Foerster. 

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

 Asyiiiniictus iiigrofroiDs n. sp. 



9 . — 8 mm. Black, with four posterior coxfe and three basal segments of ab- 

 domen clear rufous; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma brown; 

 areolet wanting; the second recurrent uniting close to the transverse cubital; 

 antennse slender, elongate; thorax with short silver pile; abdomen rather broad 

 at base, gradually widening toward apex ; three basal segments shagreened, 

 finely punctured and slightly undulating, remaining segments smooth and pol- 

 ished ; petiole broad, gradually widening; ovipositor 1 mm. 



One specimen from Agricultural College, Michigan, August 17th. 



Asyiiiiiiictiis iridescens n. sp. 



9 ? — 11 mm. Black, with face, mouth-parts, tegulfe. point in front, line be- 

 neath, stripe on lateral margins of mesonotum and four anterior coxfe and tro- 

 chanters beneath, yellowish white; legs bright reddish amber color, posterior 

 tarsi dusky ; wings hyaline, very strongly iridescent; nervures and stigma black ; 

 areolet large, triangular, sessile ; cubito-discoidal nervure broken and with dis- 

 tinct stump of a vein ; antennae long, black ; abdomen distinctly shagreened on 

 segments 2-5, punctured on basal segment; truncate at apex, and if ovipositor is 

 present it is scarcely visible. 



One specimen from Nevada (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc). 



CI.EPSIPORTHUS Foerster. 

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

 Shagreened, |)unctured and finely pilose. Head transverse, slightly 

 inflated. Thorax more or less elevated on anterior mesonotum ; 

 parapsidal grooves usually distinct ; scutellum elevated, conical ; 

 metathorax finely scal)rous, carinre small or wanting. Petiole of 

 abdomen straight, without carina or distinct groove ; transverse 

 median vein unites with externo-median back of basal. 



Thorax and abdomen rufous, areolet wanting riibiginosiis Cress. 



Thorax black. 



Abdomen more or less rufous assi<luus Cress. 



Abdomen black. 



Legs black and yellow fli(villil!i« n. gp. 



Legs rufous truneatii!<t n. sp. 



TKANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIV. DECKMBER. 1897. 



