No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 313 



Length 7 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor a little longer 

 than body; abdomen narrowly banded with yellow at 

 apex of some of dorsal segments; fore and mid coxae 

 mostly yellow; hind coxae black, striped with yellow; tro- 

 chanters mostly yellow; femora and tibiae mostly brown- 

 ish stramineous; hind femora with an especially dark 

 brown annulus at apex, fore tarsi stramineous; middle tarsi 

 brownish stramineous; hind tarsi mostly brown mirabilis 



*M. pulcherrimus Cresson. 



Type locality: Connecticut (E. N.). 



M. superbus Provancher, PI. ix, Fig. 3. 



Torrington, 7 July, 1905 (W. E. B.), at flowers of manna 

 grass (Glyceria) ; Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.), on flow- 

 ers of water hemlock (Cicuta tnaculata). 



M. elegans Cresson. 



West Thompson, 12 July, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



M. (Bathycetes) scutellaris Cresson. 

 M. (Asphragis) mirabilis Cresson. 



Lissonota Gravenhorst. 



Lampronota Curtis. 



Key to Species. 



1. Abdomen entirely or almost entirely black above 2 



Abdomen above more or less pale colored 7 



2. Hind coxae reddish 3 



Hind coxae practically entirely black; hind legs with a broad 



white annulus at bases of their tibiae; face and tegulae 

 white. Length 11-12 mm tegularis 



3. Pleurae unicolorous 4 



Pleurae variegated with a yellow or reddish mark before mid 



coxae; scutel more or less whitish 6 



4. Pleurae and scutel black; abdomen punctate 5 



Pleurae and scutel whitish. Length 10 mm pulchella 



5. Mesonotum with its lateral margin before tegulae more or less 



yellow; hind femora not black at tips; dorsal abdominal 

 segments entirely black; length 9 mm.; exserted portion 



of ovipositor as long as or longer than abdomen insita 



Mesonotum black, immaculate; length 6-8 mm.; exserted por- 

 tion of ovipositor as long as or longer than abdomen punctulata 



6. Length 12-13 mm.; areolet petiolated; abdomen coarsely 



punctate; length of exserted portion of ovipositor about 



as in insita cressoni 



