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the axillffi separated, not meetiug at base of the scutellum, while the 

 abdomeu is strongly compressed, a little longer than the head and tho- 

 rax united, with a prominent, exserted ovipositor and a large, promi- 

 nent lanceolate hypopygium, which projects far beyond the tip of the 

 abdomen. Wings much abbreviated, hardly developed. 



I. HENICOPYGUS SUBAPTERUS Ashmead, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2-2.5 mm.; to tip of ovipositor, about 3 mm. 

 Ground color of head, thorax, and legs is ferruginous, but the head 

 above the antennse, including the vertex, and the thorax above are 

 bronzed or metallic brown ; the mesopleura superiorly show a decided 

 violaceous tinge, while the abdomen is black above, blue-black beneath ; 

 the ovipositor black at apex, whitish on basal two-thirds. 



The small joints, upon which the antennje are inserted, are unusually 

 long, well developed, black; scape brownish-yellow, the pedicel and 

 tiagellum black. Wings very short, scarcely developed, and not extend- 

 ing to the apex of the first abdominal segment, brown, but with a white 

 transverse band near the middle. 



Type.— Cat. No. 5083, U.S.N.M. (Carl F. Baker collection.) 



Habitat. — Colorado. 



13. B^^OCHARIS Mayr. 

 1875. Bwocharis Mayr, Verh, Zool.-bot. Ges. Wieu, XV, j>. 767. 

 (Type, Bwocharis 2)ascuoru7ii Mayr.) 



I. BWOCHARIS PASCUORUM Mayr. 



Bwocharis paseuorum (Forster) Mayr, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XXV, 1875, 

 p. 768, female and male. — Vollenhoven, Piuacogr., 1878, p. 55, pi. 35, fig. 

 9,_Wachtl, Wieu. ent. Zeitg., I, 1882, p. 298.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., 

 V, 1898, p. 239. 



Habitat. — Europe. 



The species Bceooharis marlatti Ashmead, is an Aphelinine and does 

 not belong here. 



14. STENOTERYS Thomson. 



1875. Stenoterys Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV, ijp. 115, 128. 



(Type, Stenoterys orhitalis Tbomson.) 



This genus is unknown to me in nature, and is included in my table 

 from Thomson's description alone. It seeuis to come very close to 

 Leptomastix Forster. 



I. STENOTERYS ORBITALIS Thomson. 



Stenoterys orMtalis Thomson, Hym. Skaiid., IV, 1875, p. 129, female and male. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 238. 



Habitat. — Europe. 



