362 AMEKIOAN HYMENOPTERA. 



abdomen lar^je, oval, not strongly compressed ; postpetiole strongly inflated both 

 vertically and laterally; legs large and strong. 



One specimen from Michigan. 



Casinaria coinpacta n. sp. 



9 . — 9 mm. ; ovipositor 1..5 mm. Black, with abdomen rufous on apical half of 

 segment 1, all of 2 and 3, dorsum of 4 and 5. except apex ; black on all the fol- 

 lowing; mandibles, palpi, tegulte. broad outer stripe on all tibise, the same con- 

 tinued onto four anterior tarsi and annuli at base of hind tarsi, yellowish white ; 

 rest of legs rufous except coxse. which are black ; wings suiihyaline. areolet petio- 

 late; head and thorax pilose, punctured; head disc-shaped; metathorax with 

 deep, broad, longitudinal depression and feebly carinate toward apex ; abdomen 

 oval, long, sultcompressed ; petiole short, apical half much dilated. 



One specimen from Colorado (Prof. Gillette). 



Habrony.!: (?) flavistigiiia n. sp. 



'^.—15 mm.; antennae 12 mm. Black to piceous, with lower half of head, 

 sutures of thorax and margins, teguhe, scutellum and lower apical portion of 

 metathorax, rufous; abdomen black, four anterior legs rufous, middle coxae and 

 basal trochanter piceous; hind legs black, with basal half of tibige and the tarsi 

 fulvous; antennse black, scape rufous beneath; wings suhhyaline. nervures 

 blackish, stigma yellow; third discoidal cell not narrowed at base; second re- 

 current nervure uniting considerably back of the transverse cubital, the same 

 with the transverse median and the basal nervures ; humeral cross-nervure broken 

 far below the middle; head large, coarsely punctured above; clypeus elevated 

 and strongly pointed ; lower tooth of mandibles short and small ; thorax coarsely 

 and closely punctured, mesouotum trilobed ; scutellum flat, slightly oval ; meta- 

 thorax flat, transversely reticulate and with broad, median, and two lateral longi- 

 tudinal grooves ; abdomen slender, strongly compressed, postpetiole moderately 

 enlarged: legs long and slender; posterior tibi;e large toward- apex, and tarsi 

 large, becoming smaller toward apex ; claws rather large and strongly pectinate. 



One specimen from New York (H. Mecskie). 



Ateleiif i elongatiis n. sp. 



9 . — 11 nmi. ; ovipositor 6 mm. Head and thorax black, except clypeus, man- 

 dibles and palpi, which are dark rufous; legs rufous, with trochanters, tibiae and 

 tarsi of hind legs, black; abdomen black, with segments 3 to 5 rufous on apical 

 half and .5 and fi rufous at base; antennae long, slender, many jointed; wings 

 fusco-byaline, nervures and stigma brown ; areolet wanting, the transverse cubital 

 vein being long and straight and the longitudinal veins continuing from it at 

 right angles; marginal cell narrow and broadly rounded at apex ; third discoidal 

 cell somewhat narrowed at base ; humeral cross-nervure of hind wing bent some- 

 what. Iiut not broken ; head transverse, face strongly rugose, the ridges converg- 

 ing to the antennae ; clypeus small, separated ; thorax subquadrate. greatly elon- 

 gate as in some of the Pimplina?. finely and closely punctured, making it opaque: 

 no parapsidal grooves, scutellum flat; metathorax considerably produced beyond 

 insertion of hind coxae, completely areolated, the basal median area small, while 

 the two basal areas each side of it are large and nearly circular, the middle row 



