MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPIDiB. 393 



Paramesius parvuluti, r]>. iiov. 



5. Length, 1.5"". Volished black, iiupniiotured, with some sparse 

 hairs; .uitemia', oxti'pt the five or six tenniiial. joints, and k'gs, honey- 

 yellow or brownish yellow; mandibles reddish; i)ali)i white. Anten- 

 ua» 1.3-Jointed, about as long as the body; the tlagelluni elavate, twice 

 as long as the scape, the 5 or (» terminal joints bhn-k or blackish, the 

 last joint being very large, fusiform, as long as the three preceding 

 joints anited and nuich stouter; the pedicel is longer and stouter than 

 the lirst flagellar joint, the joints beyond submoniliforra, gradufilly 

 widening toward tips; the penultimate quadrate. Thorax with two 

 furrows; the scutellum foveated at base and grooved at the sides; 

 posterior margin of prothorax at the sides with a row of punctures, 

 otherwise smooth and ])olished; metathorax finely rugose, pubescent, 

 with a prominent acute median carina above. Wings clear, hyaline, 

 fringed, the submarginal vein pale yellow, reaching the costa at half 

 the length of the wing; the marginal vein fuscous or brown, twice as 

 long as thick at tip. Abdomen petiolated, !onic-ovate, longer than the 

 head and thorax united, polished black, the petiole more than twice as 

 long as thick, coarsely tinted, jtubescent beneath, the second segment 

 fully twice as long as the petiole, apex with sparse, long, white hairs. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia and Arlington, Va. 



Type in C'oll. Ashmead. 



. Paramesius terminatus Say. 



rHlu8 terminatus Say, Leconte Ed. Say, n, p. 778. 

 Faramesiun tirminatiiH Asliiii., C:in. Eiit.. xix, p. 196. 

 Diapria ternntiala Ci. Syn. Hym , p. 251. 



9. Length, 2.5""". Tolished black, impunctured, sparsely pubes- 

 cent; antenuje, excei)t toward apex, and legs honey-yellow; petiole 

 ob.scurely rufous. A^itennse 13-jointed, the pedicel longer than the 

 first flagellar joint, funiclar joints 1 to5 subequal, the first about thrice 

 as long as thick at apex, the fifth scarcely twice as long as thick, the 

 joints from here moniliform, the last fusiform, longer than the two pre- 

 ceding joints united. Thorax with 2 furrows; the scutellum trun- 

 cate behind, with a quadrate, crenate fovea at base, the mesopleura 

 below with a few longitudinal striie; metathorax rugulose, pubescent, 

 with a prominent acute carina above. Abdomen conic ovate, highly 

 polished, the tip pointed, piceous, the petiole about twice as long as 

 thick, striated. 



Habitat. — Bladensburg, Md. 



Specimens in Coll. Ashmead. il _ ^.^ 



Paramesius clavipes Asbm. 

 Can. Ent., xx, p. 53. 



9. Length, 2""". PoMshed black, impunctured, covered with some 

 long, sparse hairs on the head, thorax, and surrounding the apex of 

 abdomen; the metathorax and petiole beneath rather densely pubes- 



