No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 555 



brown-black, the scape brownish yellow. Legs, including coxae, 

 reddish yellow. Abdomen with large punctures. Length 4 mm. 



Opisthacantha Ashmead. 



0. mellipes Ashmead. 



Black, subopaque, almost invisibly punctate. Antennas 

 piceous, the scape yellow. Legs pale honey-yellow. Postscutel- 

 lum armed with an acute spine. First three abdominal segments 

 striated. Length 1.4 mm. 



Cacellus Ashmead. 



C. cecanthi Riley. 



Black, subopaque, closely punctate and covered with a fine 

 sericeous down. Female : antennae with the base and apex of 

 scape and two terminal joints pale. Legs pale rufous. Male 

 antennae brownish yellow. Length 2-2.2 mm. 



Parasite on the eggs of species of tree-crickets (CEcanthus) . 



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Hoploteleia Ashmead. 



H. floridana Ashmead. 



Brown-black, closely rugoso-punctate, the middle of the 

 mesonotum smoother. Antennae of female black, the scape rufous ; 

 of male brown, with yellowish scape. Abdomen longitudinally 

 rugulose. Length 3.5-4 mm. . 



Hadronotus Foerster. 



H. anasae Ashmead. 

 Black, coarsely irregularly rugoso-punctate, with a sparse 

 whitish pubescence. Abdomen more evenly and less coarsely 

 sculptured, somewhat lineated. Antennae of female brown, scape, 

 pedicel, and sometimes the base of the flagellum yellow. Legs 

 brownish yellow, the coxae sometimes dusky or even black. 

 Length 1.2 mm. 



A common parasite of the eggs of the common squash-bug 

 (Anasa tristis). 



Idris Foerster. 



*I. nigricornis Brues. 

 Polished black, legs and antennal scape basally rufous. An- 

 tennae black, except the base of the scape, which is rufous. Legs 



