MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMKRICAN PKOCTOTRYPID.E. fil 



the second, third, and fifth joints about wjual, the fourth beiuj? only 

 half the h'n<;th of the third, 



IlAHiTAT. — Washinj^ton, 1). C, and Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashinea<l. 



Distinct from E. rnfijMs Hiiy in its lar 'er size, darker wings and the 

 G-dentate mantlibles. 



Epyris grandis Ashm. 



(woniozua ijranditi Ashin. Eiit. Am. in, p. 76; Cress. S.vu. Hym., p. 247, 



(J . Length 6.L'o'""'. Polished black, with a few faint scattered punc- 

 tures. Head one-fourth longer than wide, carinated between the bases 

 of antennie. Mandibles rufous, jiiceous at base. Palpi pale. An- 

 tennae 13-Jointed, long, filiform, brown, tapering at tips and extending 

 to the apex of the metathorax; the scape is only twice as long as thick 

 at tip; the pedicel a little siiorter than the first flagellar joint, not 

 longer than thick ; tlie first flagellar joint slightly longer than thick and 

 about one-fimrth shorter than the second; the remaining joints longer, 

 about e(iual in length but becoming slenderer towards the apex. Pro- 

 thorax as h)ng as the head, trapezoidal; mesonotum with two abbre- 

 viated furrows in S , entire in 9 ; scutellum with a furrow across the 

 base; metathorax quadrate, with numerous faint raised lines at base; 

 mesopleura smooth with a round fovea just beneath the teguloe, and 

 divided into two parts l)y a longitudinal furrow which extends from 

 teguhe to middle coxse. Wings hyaline, the venation brown, the trans- 

 verse median ncrvure arcuate outwardly with a spurious vein directed 

 towards the disk of the wing. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types $ and $ in Coll. Ashmead. 



The spurious backward directed vein- from the transverse median 

 nervure caucjed me to confound it with the genus Goniozus in my orig- 

 inal description of the species. 



^ Epyris megacephalus, sp. nov, 



9 . Length, 6""'". ^ neons black; head large, broader than the tho- 

 rax, rather closely, strongly punctate; mandibles large, the fourth 

 tooth very broad ; antenuiB and legs rufous, the anterior coxae black ; 

 metathorax with several longitudinal carintB on the disk, the surface 

 transversely rugulose, the surface at posterior angle smooth, ludished. 

 Abdomen pointed ovate, shorter than the thorax, smooth, polished; the 

 apical margins of the segments, after the second, narrowly rufous; seg- 

 ments 2, 3, and 4 nearly equal, longer than the following. 



Habitat. — California. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen. 



