78 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



York, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, 

 and Mexico. 



Nothing is recorded of the life history, habits or hosts, but 

 they are probably similar to those of E. purgaUis. One speci- 

 men in the collection of the U. S. National Museum was 

 bred from Scoliopteryx libatrix. 



Location of specimens. — Specimens will be found in the fol- 

 lowing collections : American Entomological Society ; U. S. 

 National Museum, from Waltham and Provincetown, Mass., 

 (September 5) and Long Island, N. Y. ; Pennsylvania State 

 College ; Boston Society Natural History ; Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, cotype, etc. ; New York State Museum 

 (Albany), cotype ; Cornell University, cotype. 



Enicospilus iiiaculipeLinis (Cam.). 

 Ophion {Eniscopiltis) niaculipennis Cameron, Biol. Centr. Amer., 



Hym., I, p. 292, n. 8, pi. 12, 



fig. 29, 9 1886. 



Heniscopilus maculipennis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 182.... 1901. 

 " " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym.,34meFasc., 



p. 27, n. 60 1905. 



Flavous ; sternum, stigma and three spots on the mesonotunt, black; 

 ivings hyaline, with suhstig)nal fuscous band along the base of the radius. 



Length, 18 mm. 



Head impunctate, shining ; antennae yellow, fuscous toward the apex, 

 longer than the body. 



Mesonotum finely and closely punctured with three black spots ; 

 scutellum more strongly punctured and with strong lateral keels ; 

 mesopleurae closely punctured, partly black; metanotum with a trans- 

 verse carina, in front of which there are coarse transverse striations, 

 behind it is finely punctured ; pro,- meso- and metasterna black ; the 

 black extends from the mesosternum half-way up the mesopleurse, and 

 is continued in the middle to the base of the posterior wings as an 

 oblique band. Wings hyaline, stigma black except at base and apex, 

 where it is yellow ; costa yellow, the other nervures black ; the larger 

 macula distinct, about one-half longer than broad and obliquely trun- 

 cated at the apex. 



Legs clear, pale yellow ; middle coxae with a black mark on the 

 under side, and the posterior coxae with a larger mark. 



Abdomen with apical half of petiole more or less black, the three 

 following segments inclining to fuscous above. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species, and can only 



