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sification of the Proctotrypoidea, " Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc., x, 

 p. 243, Dec. 1902, states that the claws of MoiiomachincB are 

 simple, using this character with others to separate them from 

 the Helorina. My specimen, however, has the claws pectinate. 

 Dr. Ashmead, at my request, kindly re-examined his specimen 

 and found that the posterior claws had two small teeth beneath, 

 the others being apparently simple. As the claws are very 

 small and the teeth quite difficult to detect, it is probable, how- 

 ever, that they are all really pectinate, as in my specimen. 

 Dr. Ashmead also informs me that the spelling Roptro7iia used 

 in his paper is an error. 



The photograph of the insect was very kindly made for me 

 by Prof. M. V. Slingerland. 



Ropronia garmani Ashmead. 



$. — Entirely black except front and middle tibiae and tarsi. Head, 

 seen from above, transversely quadrate ; cheeks broad ; mandibles 

 bidentate, the inner lobe much the longer ; clypeus broadly transverse, 

 the anterior margin rounded, slightly and very broadly marginate ; anten- 

 nae inserted in the centre of the frons, in a depression between the promi- 

 nent eyes, the distance between the bases of the antennas approximately 

 equal to the distance between the base of each antennae and its corres- 

 ponding eye ; thirteen joints are present in the specimen, but the apical 

 one or two are broken off, so that there should be fourteen or fifteen, the 

 scape is considerably shorter than the third joint ; the antennae are thick- 

 ened toward the apex of the third joint and taper to their apex ; the three 

 ocelli are placed close together in the centre of the vertex, two on a line 

 and the third in the centre and front ; head entirely covered with a grise- 

 ous pubescence, longer on the cheeks and front, close-cropped and 

 scarcely noticeable on the vertex ; antennae clothed rather thickly with 

 brown hairs ; mandibles clothed with white hairs, punctate ; clypeus and 

 frons coarsely punctate; vertex evenly and finely punctate in front, 

 transversely wrinkled behind the ocelli. Neck short, so that head is 

 borne in juxtaposition to the thorax. Thorax narrower than the head ; 

 pronotum restricted to a narrow bar in front and extending laterally to 

 the tegulae, a prominent ridge separating it in front from the pleura which 

 extend around and meet each other in front of and at right angles with 

 the pronotum ; mesonotum well developed, the parapsidal grooves 

 deeply impressed ; scutellum and post scutellum well developed, the 

 the latter but slightly shorter than the former ; each axilla produced into 

 a lateral projecting tooth, prominent as seen from in front ; propodium 

 tapering convexly to the insertion of the petiole ; sides of thorax irregu- 

 larly subreticulated with a smooth patch on the mesopleura ; pro- and 

 meso-notum evenly punctured, posterior dorsal sclerites more roughly 



