MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMKRH'AN PROCTOTRYPIDiE. 409 



MALKS. 



Coxfp pale. 



Anteniiii' not l<inK«r tlian thel)o«ly, brown; legs honey-yell. >w G. POLlTUS Say. 



Coxa^ bhick. 



Aiiteunii' loiijjer tban the body, pireouK; legs piccons G. FLORlDANrs Ashm. 



Aiitentiii' shorter thun the body; scrape black, the llag^lluiii brown. 



Flagellar Joints twice tin l<»ng as thick, except the first, which is thrice as long 

 as thick; last two ai>ical abdominal segjuents nigoso-puuctatc. 



(i. TKXANl :.s, sp. nov. 



Flagellar joints not longer than thick, except the first, which is «»ne and a half 



times as long as thick; last two apical abdominal 8e<;uients smooth. 



G. piLosus, sp. nov. 



Oalesus quebecensis Prov. 



Pec. Fann. Can.,ii, p. .559; Ashm. Can. Ent., xix, p. 195; Cress. Syn. Hym.,p. 251. 



9 . Lengtb, 3.2'"'". Black, polislied, sliiniiig-; head twice as long as 

 wide, pilose, the cheeks with a tuft of griseous wool; anteriorly pro- 

 foundly sulcate and exhibiting 4 acute teeth; frontal prominence with 

 a large, broad, diamond shaped fovea, its apex not distinctly emargi- 

 nated between the antennfe. Antenn.e 12-jointed, extending to the 

 apex of metathorax, brown; the first flagellar joint thrice as long as 

 thick, the second twice as long as thick; the joints from here gradually 

 incrassated, shorter but broader, submoniliform ; the last very large; 

 cone shaped, as long as the first. Thorax with two deep furrows, the 

 scapula' with a deep sulcus near the tegnla' ; tegulie large, black ; meta- 

 thorax rugose, opaque, pubescent. "Wings subfuscous, hyaline basally, 

 pubescent; folded, but not fissured. Legs, including coxjt?, rufous. 

 Abdomen a little longer than the head and thorax together, polished 

 black; the petiole st^ut, with deep longitudinal sulci, sparsely pilose. 



S . Length, 4'"'". Black, polished, shining, with the legs red. An- 

 tennse hairy, the joints separated at the sutures; front excavated be- 

 fore for the insertion of the antenna;, with a small point at the middle 

 beneath and another on each side. Thorax elongated, depressed; the 

 metathorax strongly punctured with two carinie united at the base and 

 diverging toward the summit; the mesothorax tuberculous. Tegulaj 

 large, red, black at base. Legs of a beautiful red, the thighs swollen, 

 and more or less black. Abdomen jiedunculate; the petiole grooved 

 above and hairy at the sides, the rest forming a rather short oval; the 

 second segment with small foveje at base. 



Habitat. — Canada and District of Columbia. 



Type (J in Coll. Provancher; 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



The S of this species is unknown to me, and the above description is 

 taken from Abbe Provancher; the 9 is described from a specimen 

 captured at Washington, D. C, which could only be correlated with 

 this species. 



Oalesus atricomis, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 2.6""". Black, polished. AntennjB 12-jointed, clavate, 

 black, reaching only to the tegulae ; first flagellar joint only a little more 

 than twice as long as thick, joints beyond to sixth shorter, subequal; 



