228 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Abdomen sessile, fusiform, the third segment slightly the longest; in 

 5 pointed at apex, in <5 trnueate, with 2 prongs. 



Legs moderately stout, pilose, the tibial spurs 1, 1, 1, well developed, 

 the tarsi not, or but slightly, longer than the tibire, the basal joint of 

 hind tarsi about 3^ times as long as the second, with stiff bristles 

 beneath. 



The three impressed lines on mesonotum, the spined postscutellum, 

 and the venation separate the genus at once from all others, although 

 otherwise it resembles Baryconus and Macroteleia. 



Besides the species described here from ^North America, I have 

 another species in my collection from South America. Nothing is 

 known of the habits of the genus. 



Hoploteleia floridaua Ashm. 



(PI. X, Fig. 1,^.) 



Banjconns floridanm Ashm., Ent. Am., iii, p. 118; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 314. 



S 9 . Length, 3.5 to i"""". Brown-black, coarsely rugoso-punctate, 

 the middle of mesonotum smoother, closely punctate. Antennje 12- 

 jointed; in $ flliform, brown, the scape yellowish; pedicel triangular; 

 flagellar joints to fifth subequal, the first the longest, the third excised 

 at base; joints from fifth to last a little longer than the fourth; the 

 last IJ times as long as the penultimate; in 9 clavate, the club joints 

 broader than long. Mesonotum with 3 distinct furrows. Pleura im- 

 pressed, lineated. Scutellum rugose, with coarse, irregular punctures. 

 Postscutellum with two short, erect teeth. Wings subhyaline, tinged 

 with fuscous; in the 9 the marginal vein is very short, about one-third 

 the length of the stigmal, or nearly punctiform; in the S longer, fully 

 half the length of the stigmal; postmarginal vein very long; stigmal, 

 oblique, not curved, ending in a small knob. Legs brownish-yellow, 

 in 9 with the coxae black. Abdomen fusiform, sessile, lineatedly 

 rugose, the basal segment deeply fluted, in 9 pointed at apex, in <5 

 truncate and ending in two spines. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla., and Arlington, Va. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



The types of this species and genus were collected by myself in 

 Florida, but I have a S taken in Virginia, and Mr. Herbert Smith has 

 taken another species in South America, so that the genus is widely 

 distributed. 



CREMASTOBiEITS Ashm., gen. nor. 

 (Type C. bicolor Ashm. ) 



Head transverse, the face convex, the vertex not very broad, rounded 

 off towards occiimt, the latter a little emarginated ; ocelli 3, triangularly 

 arranged, the lateral touching the eye; eyes very large, round, hairy. 



Anteimse inserted close to the clypeus, 12-joiuted in both sexes, in 



