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raent of abdomen reddish yellow ; anteniii? large, shorter than head and thorax, 

 subclavate, fuscous toward tip. a yellow aiinulus in the middle ; wings fuscous, 

 stigma and nervures dusky rufous ; body thickset, coarsely punctured, cnnfluently 

 so on second and third abdominal segments ; head normal, face slightly inflated ; 

 mesonotum and scutelium flat, depressed ; metathorax deeply excavated behind, 

 margined in front by the arcuate second transverse carina ; superior median area 

 obeordate, glabrous; abdomen broad, oval, depressed, not strongly narrowed at 

 apex ; ovipositor exserted, postpetiole finely aciculate, gastroceli shallow, elongate ; 

 legs short, robust, anterior femora normal. 



One specimen from Mt. Lafayette, N. H. ; collected by the cole- 

 opteri.st, Mr. F. Blaucbard, to whom the species is dedicated. 



HopliwnieiiiiM ti*:iii*«v<'r.«>HS n. sp. 



% . — 9 mm. Black, with abdomen except extreme base, femora and most of 

 mesonotum, rufous ; posteiior coxae and hind tibise beneath piceous : face, moutl\- 

 parts, orbits broken above, scape beneath, tegulte, spot before, line beneath scu- 

 telium, prothoracic collar, four anterior coxae and trochanters beneath and all 

 tarsi, yellow; basal half of bind heel, most of their tibiae and apex of their 

 femora black ; antennae long, taperir.g, brown, yellowish beneath ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, nervures and stigma brown ; second recurrent nervure mostly wanting ; 

 head small, narrowed beneath ; thorax large, gibbous, coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured ; scutelium elevated and with lateral and a large transverse median carina; 

 metathorax rugosely punctate and with large tuberculate spines, carinae distinct ; 

 abdomen punctured, subpolished ; segment 2 very broad and long, postpetiole 

 strongly arched, slightly punctured ; legs slender, more than twice as long as 

 abdomen. 



One specimen from Moscow, Idaho (Prof. Aldrich). 



Ainlilyteles toroiitosiis n. sp. 



9. — 17 mm. Black, with broad annulus on antennae, humeral line before 

 tegulae, line beneath tegulse, scutelium, broad annulus on all tibiae, and spot on 

 three apical segments of abdomen, white ; wings yellowish subhyaline, nervures 

 and stigma reddish brown ; body large, thickset, coarsely punctured, three basal 

 segments of abdomen opaquely so ; pilose, especially venter and apex of abdomen 

 and tarsi ; scutelium broad, oval ; postscutellum aciculate ; metathorax rugose, 

 median areas very large, basal one wanting ; postpetiole rugose, aciculate ; abdo- 

 men broad and large, very obtuse at ajiex, venter of 1-.3 with fold. 



Two specimens from Toronto, Canada (Mr. Priddey). 



AniblyteleM tricol4»r n. sp. 



'S 9.-11-13 mm. Black, with abdominal segments 2 and 3 ferruginous, and 

 in 9 postpetiole also ; 9 with annulus on antennae, scutelium and spots on two 

 apical segments of abdomen white, also more or less distinct supi-aorbital spots, 

 spot on upper collar, line in front and another beneath tegulae, white ; rest of 

 antennae black, blackish fulvous in "J, and black at base; wings yellowish fus- 

 cous, nervures brown, stigma yellow ; body slender, coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured ; metathorax completely areolated, median areas no wider than lateral, 

 basal small; abdomen slender, obtuse at tip, petiole aciculate in 'J, , jjolished in 

 9, three basal segments with fold. 

 Four specimens from South Dakota (Prof Aldrich). 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIV. 1ECEMBKK. 1«H7. 



