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occur also in rufipes^ Brulle (S. Am.), and in pictipes ?, n. sp., 

 scriptifrons S $ , and annulicornis cf 2 , n. sp. 



Fimpla pictipes, n. sp. — $. — Differs from ruficrus $ only as follows: — 

 I. The head is sparsely and very finely punctate, more densely on the 

 face, which is sparsely pubescent and subopaque. 2. The palpi are whit- 

 ish and the antennae are brown-black immaculate, with the ist joint of 

 the flagellum about 4 times as long as wide. 3. The whole thorax is pol- 

 ished and very finely and sparsely punctate except the metathorax which 

 is pubescent, opaque, and closely and more coarsely punctate, except a 

 broad, highly polished, glabrous stripe extending from base to tip and 

 showing at its base the usual two carinse. Tegulse white, and before them 

 a white spot pointed in front. 4. The abdomen is subopaque, confluently 

 punctured, rather more coarsely so than the metathorax, and the extreme 

 tip of joints 1-6 is pale sanguineous except laterally. The usual tubercles 

 subobsolete. A very deep, transversely oval, lateral fovea occupying \ 

 of the suture between joints i and 2. 5. The ovipositor is rufous ; the 

 «heaths black, sparsely pubescent, rather wider at base than the last tar- 

 sal joint of the hind leg, and but little tapered. Venter blackish, broadly 

 whitish on the sutures except towards the tip. 6. The legs are pale ru- 

 fous. Front legs with the basal | of the coxae, and an abbreviated, exte- 

 rior vitta on the tibiae, black; tarsi whitish. Middle legs with the second 

 \ of their tibiae white; and an exterior black vitta, interrupted near the 

 tip, on the remaining part; tarsi black, with the basal \ of joints 1-3 and 

 5 white. Hind legs with the tips of the femora black; tibife black, with 

 their second \ white ; tarsi as in middle legs ; spurs white. 7. The wings 

 are hyaline; veins black, radius rufous; stigma black, its basal \ pale ru- 

 fous. Areolet rhomboidal. Bullae all distinct, C and D separated by a 

 pretty wide space. Length $ .32 inch. Front wing 5 .30 inch. Ovipos. 

 .15 inch. 



One ? ; c? unknown to me. Distinct from annulipes by the 

 white spot before the tegula, by the uninterrupted glabrous meta- 

 thoracic vitta, by the black front coxae, and by the tarsi of the 

 4 hind legs distinctly annulate with white. In Pimpla the 4th 

 tarsal joint is small as compared with that of Glypta^ which ac- 

 counts for its being often not annulate with white like the other 

 4 joints. The front coxae 2 alone being black is abnormal, but 

 occurs also in tenuicornis 2, Cress., annulicornis ?, n. sp., 

 ■conquisitor ^ ? Say, bicolor ?, Brulle (N. Afr.), dindbilineata $, 

 Brulle (S. Afr.) Distinct from tenuicornis, Cress., by the white 

 tegula and the white spot before it, and by the beautifully annu- 

 late 4 hind tarsi. 



Pimpla annalicornis, [Walsh, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 147.]— (5". — 

 Black. Head polished, very finely and sparsely punctured, less sparsely 

 •on the face. A narrow white orbit extending from the mouth to the ver- 



