MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMEkiOAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 43 



DisBomphalus califoiuicus »|>. iiuv. 



i. — Lenj^th 3""". HliU'k, shining; tlie In I but feebly puuctured, 

 with ii Inmtal depression before the front o(»lhi.s; thorax with li fur- 

 rows; mandibles rufous; palpi whitish; legs brownish yellow; thepos- 

 teri«)r coxse black basally ; the hind femora dusky above. Antenuie 13- 

 joiuted, fus<'Ous, the scape and pedicel yeUow; the tirst flagellar joint 

 very small, only half the length of the pedicel; the three or four fol- 

 h)wing scarcely longer than thick; those beyond longer, all densely 

 covered with a short pubescence. Metathorax subcpiadrate, dorsally, 

 except Just at tij), rugose, with a median carina. Wings hyaline, the 

 venation pale yellowish ; the stigma is thrice as long as thick, truncate 

 at apex. Abdomen oval, scarcely half the length of the thorax, black, 

 shining; the two small tubercles on the second segment are wide apart, 

 placed near the basal angles. 



Habitat. — California. 



Type $ in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



Described from a single specimen. 



Distinguished from xanthopus by the sculpture of the head, color 

 and relative lengths of the Joints of the antennje, longer thorax, color 

 of the hind legs, shori^i-, oval abdomen, and in the position of the two 

 tubercles on the second abdonuual segment. 



Dissomphalus carolinensis sp. iiov. 



9. — Length 2.(>'""'. Polished, impunctate; head oblong-quadrate, 

 piceous black; antennie 13-Jointed, not longer than the head, brownish 

 yellow, the fiagellum slightly dusky toward apex and very slightly 

 incrassated; the scape is less than half as long as the fiagellum and 

 stouter; pedicel larger than the three following Joints united, which 

 are small and not longer than thick; the Joints beyond these to the 

 last are wider than long; the last joint longer than the penultimate. 

 Thorax and legs brownish-yellow; the tarsi pale; metathorax quad- 

 rate, impressed laterally to the middle coxa\ Abdomen black, polished, 

 conic-ovate, as h)ng as the head and thorax united, tlu^ incisions pule, 

 the apical margins of segments 3 to 6 slightly emarginate. 



Habitat.— North C!arolina. 



Tyi>e in Berlin Museum. 



Described from a single specimen, labeled "Carolina, Zimmermann." 



ATBLBOPTBRUS Forht^r. 



Verb. tl. Natiirb. Ver. Preuss. Kheinl., 1851, p. 5, Tab. i, f. 1, alaj. 



(Typo J, Forstvri Kivchner , <?.) 



Head in apterous 9 oblong-quadrate, flattened sub(!t)nvex above, 

 the eyes small, obh)ng-oval, the ocelli wanting; in winged 9 with ocelli; 

 in $ shorter, the eyes large, ])romiueut, slightly hairy. 



i 



