NO. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 285 



E. (Sympratis) ferrugineus (Norton). 



Length n mm., or less, to 15 mm.; face mostly brownish, eye 

 margins yellow, front largely black, vertex and occiput mostly or 

 entirely black ; cheeks brown ; mandibles mostly yellow, with a 

 brownish tint and tipped with blackish, antennae pale brown 

 beneath ; dark brown above ; thorax mostly black, mottled with 

 reddish, the latter color confined chiefly to the mesonotum, scutel, 

 mesopleurae, and metapleurae ; coxae mostly black, tipped with 

 brown ; trochanters brown ; fore femora yellowish in front, other- 

 wise brown, the same as fore tibiae and tarsi ; mid femora, tibiae 

 and tarsi more or less brown, the mid tibiae partly yellow ; hind 

 femora blackish beneath, brownish above, their tibiae brown with 

 the apical third blackish, basal joint of their tarsi mostly yellow, 

 rest of tarsi mostly brown ; wings yellowish brown, stigma and 

 veins brown ; abdomen mostly reddish, the black being confined 

 to the second, fourth, and following segments on the summit of 

 the abdomen and to the lower half of the sides of the third and 

 following segments ; exserted portion of ovipositor about as long 

 as the first joint of the hind tarsi. The ferruginous area of the 

 thorax may encroach on the propodeum. 



New Haven, 3-10 May, 1904 and 1906, on flowers of honey- 

 suckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) , gooseberry (Ribes oxyacan- 

 thoides), currant (R. rubrum), willow, and Japan plum {Primus 

 triflora) (W. E. B. and H. L. V.). 



Heteropelma Wesmael. 



H. flavicorne Brulle. Howard, Insect Book, PI. x, Fig. 18. 



Length 26 mm. ; black or brown, with fuscous or dark brown 

 wings ; antennae mostly yellow or orange in color ; fore femora 

 and tibiae mostly yellowish in front; rest of fore legs dark brown 

 or blackish; exserted portion of ovipositor scarcely half the 

 length of the first joint of the hind tarsi. 



This species is a parasite on the larva of Sphinx luscitiosa. 



Stafford, 24 August, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; Mt. Carmel, 27 

 August, 1904 (P. L. B.). 



H. datanae Riley. 



Female : length 25 mm. ; reddish brown, abdomen varying to 

 bronzy black ; antennae yellowish brown, a little darker than the 



