(t. c. DAVIS. 867 



Colpoineria liforalis u. sp. 



% . — 7 mm. Black, with maxillary palpi, tegulae, spot in front, trochanters, 

 tihise and tarsi of middle legs and aunuli at hase and middle of tihipe. and another 

 at hase of tarsi of the hind leg, yellowish white; the remainder of the legs are 

 ferruginous, except hind tihise and tarsi, which are hrownish black; labial palpi 

 brown, antennse brown, sericeous, yellowish beneath toward the apex, scape 

 black ; wings hyaline, veins and stigma black, whitish at base, areolet large, sub- 

 quadrate, clypeus eraarginate ; head and thorax shining, metathoras sparsely 

 punctured and with two central longitudinal cariii;v: niesonotuni indistinctly 

 trilobed ; basal segment of abdomen scabrous and with two large carinse ; the 

 following segments become less deeply punctured, until on the apical segments 

 they are shining and only lightly punctured ; apex of each segment with a shining 

 impunctured band ; the anterior femora and tibife are shaped as in the European 

 species. 



Numerous specimens taken iu sweeping along the river bank at 

 the Agricultural College ; also specimens from Bufialo, N. Y. (Van 

 Duzee), and Toronto, Canada (Brodie). 



Pimpla coniponotu^i n. sp. 



% . — 11 mm. Black, with face, mouth-parts, cheeks beneath, orbital lines above, 

 teguhe. spot in frojit, spot beneath each wing, large cuneiform spot on margins of 

 mesonotum, two parallel stripes on mesonotum, scutellums, large spot on anterior 

 mesopleurte, pro- and mesosternum, four anterior legs bene.ath, anuulus on middle 

 of four posterior tibite and most of posterior tarsi, white ; remainder of hiud legs 

 rufous, except tihise and apex of femora aud tarsal segments, which are black ; 

 antennte black, slightly pale beneath ; wings fusco-hyaline, nervures and stigma 

 brown ; areolet large, pentangular, cubito-discoidal vein not broken and with no 

 stump of a vein, humeral cross-vein of hind wing broken much above the middle ; 

 head and thorax polished, scarcely punctured ; abdomen coarsely and closely 

 punctured ; clypeus large, flat, not indented. 



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



Pimpla Mtiilfor n. sp. 



1, . — 8 mm. Slender, black; palpi, scape, tegulte and spot in front, white; 

 mesothorax, except portion beneath wings, and metapleura dark rufous; legs 

 reddish yellow, hind femora aud coxae rufous, hind tarsi, apex and narrow outer 

 stripe on tihise dusky, antennae reddish brown ; wings iiyaline. iridescent, ner- 

 vures and stigma jiale brown, areolet sessile, triangular; cubito-discoidal vein 

 broken and with a long stump of a vein, humeral cross-nervure of hind wing 

 broken at middle; body polished, abdomen sparsely but coarsely punctured, no 

 distinct carinse on metathorax. 



One specimen from Toronto, Canada (^[r. Wm. Brodie). 



Pimpla defeiiKator n. sp. 



J. — 8-10 nun. ; oviposit(>r 2..") mm. Bhick, with palpi, orbital lines from base 

 of antenme to occiput, apex of scutellum aud postscutellum, white; legs honey- 

 yellow, with anterior coxse, trochanters aud tarsi, annulus at base and broader 

 line at middle of all the tibite and Itasal half of four posleiior tarsal segments, 



TRAN8. AM. ENT. .SOC. XXIV. OECKMBER. 1897. 



