[253] HYMENOPTERA 259 



Tribe RHOGADINII. 



Genus Rhogas Nees. 

 RHOGAS HARRIMANI sp. nov. 



Male. Length 7 mm. Black ; an annulus at base of first joint of 

 flagellum, the second dorsal abdominal segment, except narrowly at 

 apex, and the legs, except the apices of hind femora, apical third of 

 their tibiae and their tarsi, ferruginous ; palpi yellowish. 



The antennae are longer than the body ; the first joint of the flagel- 

 lum is the longest, the following joints subequal, all being longer than 

 thick. The head and thorax are finely coriaceous and also punctate, 

 the transverse depression on the pronotum with short elevated linea- 

 tions, the parapsidal furrows distinct, the mesopleura with a large 

 shining spot at the middle and posteriorly, the metathorax rugulose 

 with distinct pleural and median carina, while the metapleura, except 

 at margins, are highly polished. The abdomen is fully as long as the 

 head and the thorax united, with dorsal segments i and 2 and base of 

 3, rugulose, the remainder of the third and the following segments 

 being smooth and shining ; segments i and 2 have also a longitudinal 

 carina down the center. Wings hyaline, or at most only faintly tinged, 

 the costal veins at apex and the stigma being brown-black, the internal 

 veins light brown, the parastigma and costal and median veins toward 

 their base being yellow ; the second cubital cell is oblong and fully 

 twice as long as the first abscissa of the radius, while the submedian 

 cell is very much longer than the median. 



Type. Cat. No. 5714, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Fox Point, July 

 8. One specimen. 



Suborder II. PHYTOPHAGA Latreille. 



Superfamily IX. SIRICOIDEA Ashmead. 



Family SIRICID^. 



Genus Sirez Linne. 



SIREX FLAVICORNIS Fabricius. 



Sirex flavicomis FABRICIUS, Spec. Insect., i, p. 418, 1781. FABRICIUS, 

 Mant. Insect., i, p. 257, 1787. GMELIN, Linn6, Syst. Nat. Ed. 13", I, 

 p. 2672, 1790. FABRICIUS, Ent. Syst., n, p. 126, 1793. FABRICIUS, 

 Syst. Piez., p. 49, 1804. DALLA TORRE, Cat. Hym., i, p. 385, 1894. 

 KONOW, Wien. ent. Zeitg., xvn, pp. 75-76, 1898. 



Tremex flavicomis LEPELETIER, Encycl. M6th. Ins., x, p. 228, 1825. 



Urocerus flavicomis PROVANCHER, Nat. Canad., x, p. 228, 1878. PROVAN- 

 CHER, Fn. ent. du Can. Hym., p. 239, 1883. CRESSON, Syn. Hym. 

 N. Am., p. 173, 1887. HARRINGTON, Tr. Roy. Soc. Canada, pp. 138, 

 146, 1893. 



