MONOUKAI'H OF THE NOUril AMKKK'AN I'KOCTOTItYI'lD.E. 2S!) 



little iioarer to the iiiarjjiu of the eye than to the front ocellus. Scape 

 and legs rethlish yellow, the coxa* black, the posterior femora and the 

 tips (»f the posterior tibia* fuscous. Tlie pedicel is much stouter than 

 th«' fuiiicle; the first two funiclar Joints about e<jual, cylindric. the 

 third and fourth small, rounded; club 4-.jointed, the first three trans- 

 verse, the last ovate. Mesonotuui without furrows; scutellum foveated 

 at base; metathorax short, pubescent. Teguhe black. Wings hyaline. 

 Al)domen sessile, short-oval, a little shorter than the thorax, the base 

 densely i)ubescent. 



In t'ae S the legs, except the coxa^, are wholly reddish-yellow; the 

 antenn.elong, tlie scape, pedicel, and first funiclar joint yellow, the fol- 

 lowing joints brown-black; the second funi(;lar joint is as long as the 

 l)edicel and first funiclar joint nnited, stout, the following joints more 

 slender, cylindric, and about 2^ times as long as thi"k, the apical joint 

 a little thicker thiin the basal; scutellum with a minute tubercle at 

 tip; metathorax and base of abdomen covered with a dense whitish 

 pubescence; while the abdomen is oval, nuich shorter than the thorax. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Synopeas melanocerus Ai^hui. 

 Can. Ent., xix, p. 130, 5 ^ ; Cress. Syn. llyiii., \t. 249. 



S . Length, 2.1""". Black, polished; face faintly alutaceous, with a 

 central furrow. Lateral ocelli as near to the front ocellus as to the 

 margin of the eye. Antenna? 10-jointed, long, filiform, black, the joints 

 after the fourth long, cylindrical, about 4 times as long as thi<;k; pedi- 

 cel as long as the first and secou'' ftiniclar joints united; the first funi- 

 clar joint small, the second thickened and curved. Mesonotum with 

 2 distinct furrows. Metathorax very sparsely pubescent. Teguhe 

 piceous. Wings hyaline. Legs piceon-., the coxa; black, the anterior 

 legs reddislwyellow. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax united, 

 oblong-oval, the petiole and the foveohe at base of the second segment 

 striated. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. • . 



CCELOPELTA Ashm. gen. nov. 

 (Type C. mirabilis Aahm.) 



Head transverse, the occiput scarcely margined, the lateral ocelli as 

 near to the front ocellus as to the margin of the eye. 



Antenna; in 5 9-jointed, ending in a 4-jointed club; the scape very 

 slender, notextending beyond the ocelli ; pedicel very small ; first funiclar 

 joint a little shorter than the second, the second fully twice as long as 

 thick; the third sub triangular; club joints elliptic-oval, loosely joined. 



Thorax ovoid, convex, the mesonotum very little longer than wide, 



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