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times as large as the penultimate, the two preceding joints transverse, 

 the others a little longer than wide, the first flagellar joint being scarcely 

 as long as the pedicel. Thorar. convex, without a trace of a furrow. 

 Wings hyaline, pubescent, the larastignia as long and thick as the 

 marginal vein, the stigmal vein vc^ry little longer than the marginal. 

 Abdomen not longer than the thorax. 



HABITAT.^-Manhattan, Kans. 



Types in Kansas State Agricultural College and (]oll. Ashmea^l. 



Described from two specimens ret^eived from Prof. Popenoe. 

 NEOCERAPHRON Asliin., gen. uov. 



Agrees in all particulars with Ceraphron, except that the antennae in the 

 male are 10-jointed, not 11-jointed, and in female 9-jointed, not lO-jointed, 

 the flagellum being strongly clavate. 



Neoceraphon m^croneurus, Ashni. 

 (PI. VII, Fig. 3, ^.) 

 Ceraphron macroneuras Asbm., Ent. Am., ill, j). 97, ^ ; Cress. Syn. Hyra., p. 312. 



$. Length, 0.8""". Polished bljick, irapunc sured ; abdomeu yellow, 

 blackish above towards apex ; legs yellowish- white ; antenna? 10-jointed, 

 filiform, reaching to the base of the abdomen, dark-brown, the scape 

 brownish-yellow, the flagellar joints, except the first and last, not 

 longer than wide, loosely joined, moniliform, pubescent, the last joint 

 twice as long as the first. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein linear, 

 the stigmal vein very long, curved, almost attaining the apex of wing, 

 forming a large marginal cell. 



$ . Length, 0.75 """. Black, jwlished, impunctured, the abdomen 

 lioney -yellow, blackish above; legs whitish; antenna? 9-jointed, brown- 

 ish-yellow, fuscous toward tips, the flagellum much incrassated towards 

 apex, all the joints, except the first, which is as long as thick, are 

 wider than long, the last large, fusiform. 



Habitat.— -Jacksonville, Fla., and Virginia. 



Types in ColL Ashmead. 



Subfamily V.— SCELIONIN^* 



fiead transverse or quadrate, often very broad and large. Ocelli 3, 

 always present. Mandibles most frequently bidentate, although occa- 

 sionlly 3-dentate. Antenna^ elbowed, inserted on a clyi)eal prominence 

 or at the base of the clypeus, usually clavate, 11- or 12-jointed in the 

 females, or if the club is unjointed, but 7-jointed; in the males filiform 

 or setaceous, 12-joint«d except in Scelh, where they are but 10-joiuted. 

 Maxillary palpi 2, 3, 4, or 5-jointed, labial palpi 2- or 3- jointed. The 

 pronotum is often not visible from above, or it is large, transverse, or 

 quadrate; mesonotum generally short, transverse, with or without 

 grooved furrows; scutellum generally semicircular, the axilla; not dis- 

 tinctly separated; it is rarely spined or wanting, although the x^ost- 



