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is a closed median and submedian cell, and the transverse median vein, 
nervellus, is slightly broken almost in the middle. 
The petiole is rather long and slender at base, gradually but strongly 
widened at apex; anteriorly its surface is opaque, posteriorly shining and 
impunctate; the gastrocceli are small, transverse, and placed at the base 
of the segment. the surface of the second and following dorsal segments 
is impunctate and shining. The ovipositor of the type specimen is com- 
pletely exposed and almost as long as the first three segments of the and 
men (I mm.), but in normal position would probably project about 35 of 
that distance, or a little more than the venga of the petiole aaa ine 
tip of the abdomen. 
New York: Ithaca, Chicoree Woods, 18 July, 1918, 19. 
Holotype-—Collection of Cornell University, No. 244.1. 
Phygadeuon mellinus Provancher. 
New: Worle: Iithacaya2. isis, .2ie alimly Ome ae on 
Aptesis pterygia new name. 
1836. Cryptus micropterus Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist.: 1, 238. 
1888. Aptesis micropterus Cresson, Synopsis and Catalogue of 
Hymenoptera of North America, p. 199. 
(1815. Not Ichneumon micropterus Gravenhorst, Monogr. ichn. 
pedestis p=26: 
1850. Aptesis microptera Foerster, Arch. f. naturg., 16: 89.) 
One female, Chicoree Woods, Ithaca, N. Y., June, 1918. 
ODONTOMERUS. 
As Morley has shown, the length of the ovipositor is not at all 
reliable for the distinction of species, nor is size. 
Say in 1828 described under the generic name Anomalon an 
Odontomerus with black polished body and honey-yellow legs to 
which he gave the name mellipes. Among 24 specimens before 
me, mostly from central New York (one male from Quebec and 
one female from New Jersey) all the females of which would 
answer to Say’s description, I find three distinct species: (a) 
represented by 3 females and 2 males (one of the latter from 
Quebec) has the head strongly expanded behind the eyes, that is, 
buccate, and the eyes not so prominent as in the other two, has 
the extreme apex of the hind femora of the females always fus- 
cous as well as the apex of the hind tibiz and the entire hind 
tarsi. In the males the entire hind legs are fuscous, except the 
