MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID^. 67 



loiijjitudinal cariua. Wings not fully developed, reaching only to the 

 tip of the first abdominal segment. Legs rufous, the anterior femora 

 above slightly fuscous. Abdomen i)ointed ovate, black, shining, sparsely 

 pilose, tlie apical margins of the segments tinged with rufous. 



Habitat. — Carolina. 



Type 9 in Berlin Museum. 



Described from a single specimen, labeled ' ( 'arolina, Zimmermann." 



Mesitius texanus, sj). nov. 



9. Length 3.2""". Apterous; black, shining; head oblong, feebly 

 sparsely punctate; thorax coriaceous; antenna*, UKiudibles, and legs 

 brownish -yellow; metathorax with a single central longitudinal carina, 

 and three or four very short raised lines on either side at base. Abdo- 

 men ovate, as long as the thorax and much wider, polished black, the 

 apical margin of the third and following segments narrowly testaceous. 

 The pedicel and the first fiagellar joint are about equal, smaller than 

 the following, the following joints being a little longer than thick. 



Habitat.— Texas. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen, distingushed by the absence of 

 wings. 



ANOXCrS Thonmon. 



Ofvers. af K. Vtt.— Akad., 1861, p. 452. 



(Typo A. loops ThoniH.) 



Head oblong; the ocelli 3, in a triangle on a slight prominence, in 

 9 subobsolete ; eyes in S oblong, in 9 more rounded, slightly hairy. 



Antenme 12 jointed, filiform, submoniliform in both sexes, in the 

 $ l>il()se. 



Maxillary palpi short, 4-jointed; labial pal|)i 3-jointed. 



IVIandibles short, tridentate at apex, the outer tooth acute. 



Thorax smooth, without furrows, the i>roth<uax in 9 mudi elongated, 

 in $ short, rounded anteriorly; mesonotum very short; scutellum bifov- 

 eated at base; metathorax subquadrate, truncate posteriorly. 



Front wings with two basal cells of nearly an eipial lengtli, and a 

 long radial or stigmal vein; the stigma is minuti', quadrate, smaller 

 than the parastigma. 



Abdomen ovate subpetiolate, the third segment the longest. 



Legs as iu Bethylus. 



A genus allied to Epyrh and Mesitius, but readily distinguished by 

 the 12 jointed antenme, niesonotal, mandibular and palpal characters. 

 The venation also suflBciently separates it from Bethylus and Cephalo- 

 nomia. 



Two 8i>ecie8 have been discovered as follows; 



