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E. clavatus Cresson. 

 E. variatus Provancher. 

 E. abdominalis Cresson. 

 E. abdominalis var. rufinus Davis. 



Anecphysis Foerster. 



A. curvineura Davis. 



Female and male : length 7 mm. ; mostly black ; face, orbital 

 lines at sides of antennae, mouth-parts, tegulae, a line on the meso- 

 pleurse, scutel, coxae of fore and mid legs, all trochanters, apex 

 of hind femora, base of hind tibiae, annulus in the middle of the 

 hind tibiae, a spot at the tip of the abdominal petiole in the middle, 

 a spot on each side at base of the second dorsal, and apical fifth 

 of the second and following dorsal abdominal segments, lemon- 

 yellow ; hind coxae black, rest of hind legs except yellow portions, 

 and all femora, reddish black; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi 

 brownish yellow. 



A. ruficrus (Walsh). 



Female : length 5 mm. ; head mostly black, with the sub- 

 antennal protuberance, the pedicel in front and most of the man- 

 dibles, yellow; palpi stramineous; scape in front yellowish 

 brown; flagel pale brown beneath, dark brown above; thorax 

 mostly black ; tubercles, tegulae, a mark at the lateral edge of the 

 mesonotum anteriorly, fore and mid coxae and trochanters, yel- 

 low ; hind trochanters also yellow; rest of legs reddish or nearly 

 so; abdomen mostly reddish, first dorsal segment, summit of 

 fourth dorsal, summit and part of sides of fifth dorsal, and 

 nearly all of the following segments, black; exserted portion of 

 ovipositor as long as or a little longer than the first joint of the 

 hind tarsi. 



West Haven, 27 June, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



Exenterus Hartig. 



Cteniscus Curtis. 

 Key to Species. 



1. Thorax black or with yellow markings; scutel more or less 



yellow; face yellow; abdomen mostly reddish 2 



Thorax, abdomen, and legs pale reddish orbitalis 



2. Hind coxae reddish or piceous consors 



Hind coxae lemon-yellow flavicoxae 



