MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID.E. 45 



the length of the head, ehivjite, a little bent; the perti«'el small; the 

 flagellar joints a little longer than thick. Prothorax a little h»nger 

 than its witltii at base, rounded before. Mesouotuni short, transverse; 

 seutellum subconvex, with a transverse impressed line at base. Meta- 

 thorax a little hmger than wide, finely rugulose. Wings dark fuscous. 

 Legs brownish yellow. Abdomen black, shining, as long as the head 

 and thorax together, with sparse long hairs, thicker at the i)oiuted 

 apex. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type S in Coll. Ashmead. 



Ateleopterus virginiensis Hp. nov. 



(Pl.iii,Fig8.1, ^; 2, 9.) 



S . Length 1.75""". Black, smooth, shining, varied with rufous or 

 piceous. Auteima'! 13-Jointed, pale brown or yellowish; the scape one- 

 third the length of the head. 



Prothorax long, narrowed in front twice the length of the width at 

 base. Metathorax a little more than twice as long as wide. 



Wings hyaline, the veins of the single basal cell pale brownish-yel- 

 low. Legs rufous, the femora sometimes dusky above. Abdomen 

 black, the sutures tinged with rufous; sometimes the rufous color ex- 

 tending on to the segments; the posterior margin of the second and third 

 segments emarginate at the middle. 



9 . Length 2.2""". Hea<l and thorax rufous ; abdomen jnceous-l'lack, 

 the pointed tip rufoxis, the sutures pale, the posterior margin of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments emarginate. 



Habitat. — Arlington, Ya. 



Types S and 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Dest!ribed from several specimens in both sexes, reared from a clus- 

 Iter of cocoons taken under the bark of an old stump and which have 

 enabled me to complete the generic diagnosis. 



Ateleopterus tarsalis, sp. nov. 



9. Length, 1.8""". Black, polished, inipunctate; antenns© dark 



1 brown; legs piceous to black, articulations somewhat reddish; tarsi 



honey-yellow. The head is oblong, a little longer than wide, squarely 



jtruncate at base and apex, the sides convex; eyes rather large, oblong 



loval; antennse 13-jointed, the scape clavate not quite one-half the 



jlength of the head; i>edicel IJ times as long as thick, and much 



[larger than any of the following joints, the flagellar joints closely united, 



Avider than long. Pronotum a little h)nger than wide, narrower than 



fhe head and longer than the mesonotuni and seutellum united ; mes- 



)notum about half as long as the seutellum, smooth without furrows; 



■seutellum with 2 fovesB at base; metanotum long, quadrate, with the 



Udes margined and a central carina. Wings hyaline, the venation 



jrowuish. Abdomen conic-ovate, much wider than the thorax, but 



