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little longer than the head, the basal segment very broad and composing 

 a fifth of the entire length. Pronotum short, not as long as the head ; 

 meso thorax distinctly longer than the metanotum ; intermediate seg- 

 ment short and inconspicuous ; legs long and slender, all similar and 

 keeled below to the apex ; abdominal segments elongate, seventh and 

 ninth subeciual, eighth slightly more than one half as long as the seventh ; 

 anal plate acutely triangular and distinctly keeled. Length of body from 

 head to tip of anal plate, 58 mm.; head, 3 mm. ; antennae, 5 mm. ; pro- 

 thorax, 2.25 mm ; mesothorax, 14 mm.; metathorax, 10 5 mm.; abdomen, 

 including intermediate segment, 28 mm. ; fore femora, 22 mm.; middle 

 femora, 22 mm.; hind femora, 19 mm.; cerci, 2 mm. 



One female, Diirango, Mexico, July, 1896. Type, No. 6603, 

 U. S. N. M. 



The much longer legs of thi.s species will serve to readily 

 separate it from the United States species. 



A New Ceropales (Hymenoptera). 



BY H, L. ViERECK. 



Ceropales Latr. = Agenioxenns Ashm. 



A specimen of Ceropales maculatns Latr., from Hastings, 

 England, runs to Ceropales as given in Mr. Ashmead's table. 

 In Ceropales rodvisoui Creas = C. Jiiyiven Iris Walsh, the cubitus 

 in hind wings originates behind the transverse median nervure 

 and not before as in Mr. Ashmead's table ; in other words, the 

 type of Agenioxenus Ashm. , is congeneric with the type of Cero- 

 pales Latr. {Ceropales maeulatus Latr.), consequently Ageniox- 

 enus nuist be placed as synonymous with Ceropales Latr, 



Ceropales quaintancei n. sp. 



Almost entirely dul! ferruginous, covered with very fine golden pubes- 

 cence, wings pale fuliginous. 



(^ Length 10.5 mm. — Head with only a few indistinct punctures on the 

 front, a shallow fovea extending down to the antennal insertion, from a 

 short distance below the anterior ocellus. Length of the first joint of 

 flagelluni about equal to length of the second. Pronotum with well sepa- 

 rated indistinct punctures, the propleura,* on the anterior half divided into 

 an upper and lower half by a well impressed fovea. Dorsulum with a fine 

 line extending back to posterior margin from little before the middle, 

 situated near the lateral margin, from the middle of the dorsulum to the 

 posterior margin there is a moderate medial elevation, punctures of the 

 mesonotuni separated, shallow, Punctures on mesopleurie more scattered 



