[235] HYMENOPTERA 24I 



sharply oblique but with a small transverse quadrate basal area, the 

 areola and petiolar areas being confluent and forming one large area ; 

 spiracles long-oval. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5680, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Popof Island, 

 July 10. One specimen. 



ZACHRESTA KUKAKENSIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 8 mm. Black, closely and distinctly punctate; 

 mandibles ferruginous ; palpi fuscous ; tegulae black ; the legs, except 

 a pale yellowish spot on front coxae and trochanters, and the front 

 femora beneath, their tibiae entirely and the middle tibiae, which are 

 rufous, are black ; the front and middle tarsi are dark fuscous, except 

 narrowly at the sutures of the joints. Wings nearly hyaline, the stigma 

 and veins dark brown, the areolet petiolate, receiving the second recur- 

 rent nervure at the middle. Metathorax very short, obliquely sloping 

 off from immediately back of the scutellum, without a basal area and 

 without carinas, except the pleural carinae below the spiracles ; spiracles 

 long-oval. 



Type.—QdX. No. 5681, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Kukak Bay, 

 July 4. One specimen. 



Genus Phaedroctonus Forster. 

 PH^DROCTONUS MINUTUS sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm. Black, opaque and very finely sha- 

 greened; scape and pedicel beneath., mandibles, palpi, tegulae, front 

 and middle coxae and trochanters, the sutures and second joint of hind 

 trochanters, an annulus at base of hind tibiae and a broad band at their 

 middle, and tibial spurs, yellowish-white ; the hind legs otherwise 

 black, the front and middle legs, except as noted, reddish-yellow; 

 abdomen black, with the venter, hypopygium and the terminal dorsal 

 segment, honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown, 

 the areolet entirely absent, the marginal cell being very broad, the first 

 abscissa of the radius being nearly two thirds the length of the second. 



7>/e.— Cat. No. 5682, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Popof Island, 

 July 9. One specimen. 



Genus Olesicampa Forster. 



OLESICAMPA ALASKENSIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 7 to 7.5 mm. Black, closely punctate, and clothed 



with a glittering white pubescence, that on the face rather dense. 



Scape beneath, two spots on clypeus nearly confluent anteriorly, 



