3l8 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



treme base and a yellowish annulus occupying practically the 

 middle third; exserted portion of ovipositor about two-thirds the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Torrington, 7 July, 1905 (W. E. B.). 



P. texana Cresson. 



Female : length 8 mm. ; mostly black ; antennae dark brown 

 throughout ; fore coxae mostly brown to blackish but with stramin- 

 eous tips ; mid legs with their tibiae dark beneath, mostly yellow 

 above, but with an apical and a sub-basal brown mark, their tarsi 

 brown, except the basal joint, which is mostly yellow, and with 

 an apical brownish band ; hind femora with the apical third 

 dusky ; the hind tibiae beneath dark brown or rather blackish, 

 above with the basal two-fifths black, the following three-tenths 

 whitish, the rest black ; tarsi of hind legs black, but with the basal 

 half of the first joint yellow ; exserted portion of ovipositor about 

 as long as the mid femora. 



Mr. R. A. Cushman has reared this species from the spider 

 Steatoda borealis. 



*P. pontiaci Viereck (new species). 



Male : length 6 mm. ; fore coxae stramineous ; fore and mid 

 legs stramineous, except tip of mid tibiae and tip of first joint 

 of mid tarsi ; hind trochanters whitish ; hind coxae and femora 

 reddish stramineous, apex of latter brownish ; basal sixth of hind 

 tibiae whitish, next sixth brown, following third whitish, apical 

 third brown ; tarsal joints whitish to yellowish to brown ; antennae 

 yellowish beneath, brown above ; otherwise much the same in 

 color as texana. 



Type locality: Cheshire, 8 July, 1904 (H. L. V.). 



Scambus Hartig. 

 Pimpla Authors, not Fabricius. 

 Body mostly black ; wings transparent ; more or less deeply 

 tinted with brownish or yellowish brown ; fore and mid legs 

 almost without exception stramineous to reddish stramineous; 

 hind legs as a rule with coxae, trochanters, and femora stramin- 

 eous to reddish, their tibiae and tarsi usually varicolored. 



Key to Species. 



Most or all of abdomen above black 2 



Most of abdomen reddish 16 



