276 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



distinct furrow above; wings without an areolet; length 

 4 mm. (female, male); black; mesonotum, sternum, pleurae, 

 scutel, front, and clypeus, pale rufous varied more or less 

 with white; a narrow annulus toward apex of antennae in 

 female; orbital lines, cheeks, mouth-parts, and venter, 

 white; legs blackish stramineous varied with white; wings 

 hyaline, veins and stigma pale yellow; exserted portion of 



ovipositor 1 mm. long nasuta 



Clypeus not strongly projecting; wings with an areolet; face 

 not narrowed below; propodeum areolated; clypeus arched 

 and somewhat compressed at sides; suture between face 

 and clypeus represented only by a crease; length 6 mm. 

 (female); black, with face, cheeks, mouth-parts, tegulae, 

 fore and mid coxae and trochanters, bases of hind tarsi, 

 spot at base on each side of second abdominal segment, 

 median stripe from middle of second dorsal segment to 

 apex of third segment, and abdomen beneath, white; 

 sternum and pleurae reddish, stigma reddish, legs pale 

 rufous, with hind tibiae black at apex; exserted portion 

 of ovipositor about one-fourth as long as abdomen ..pleuraiis 



P. (Aperileptus ?) contentionis Viereck (new species). 

 Mesoleptus rufipes Cresson, not Provancher. 



Female : body 7 mm. long ; exserted portion of ovipositor 3 

 mm. long ; head and thorax mostly smooth and polished ; first, 

 second, and third dorsal abdominal segments granular, dullish ; 

 segments beyond shining, minutely, shallowly punctate rather than 

 granular ; metathorax shining but roughened, especially the sides, 

 which are rather wrinkled ; dorsal aspect of metathorax separated 

 from posterior aspect by a carina, the posterior aspect excavated 

 and polished smooth, dorsal aspect separated into three practi- 

 cally equal longitudinal areas by two almost parallel raised lines ; 

 metapleurse practically confluent (i.e., not separated by a distinct 

 raised line) with the fused lateral areas of the metanotum; an- 

 tennae 25-jointed ; mouth-parts, scape, and pedicel mostly testa- 

 ceous, rest of antennae and face mostly brown ; thorax mostly 

 black ; scutel and postscutel yellow ; tubercles and tegulae yellow- 

 ish ; legs yellowish testaceous to reddish testaceous ; abdomen 

 above black, except for the sutures, which. are more or less brown 

 or bordered with brown or testaceous. 



Type locality : New York State. Also from Connecticut. 



P. pleuraiis Provancher. 



P. (Campothreptus) nasuta Cresson. * . 



