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quadrangle slightly longer than broad; antennae more slender, first 

 joint of flagellum more than twice as long as thick and barely a third 

 longer than second, all other joints present much longer than thick 

 and nearly cylindrical. Mesoscutum and scutellum densely punc- 

 tate, sculpture of thorax otherwise as in meUipes; hind femur 

 nearly half as deep as long; hind tarsus nearly as long as tibia, 

 apical joint barely a half longer than second joint, front tarsus 

 much longer than tibia. Abdomen about as in mellipes except that 

 first tergite is less regularly striate ; ovipositor sheath equal to length 

 of body. 



Color as in TneUipes except that antennae, palpi, hind tibia and 

 tarsus, and apex of femur are black. 



Male. — Length 10 mm. Flagellum slender, the joints cylindrical 

 and all fully twice as long as thick, first joint only slightly thicker 

 and longer than second; apical joint of hind tarsus hardly as long 

 as second joint; abdomen distinctly punctate; first tergite about 

 four times as long as broad ; color as in female. 



Type-locality. — Echo Lake, Mount Desert, Maine. 



Allotype-locality. — Pisgah Kidge, North Carolina. 



Type.— Cdii. No. 42034, U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — In Canadian National Collection and Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Described from three females and eight males as follows: Type 

 female captured June 27 by C. W. Johnson; paratype a (female) 

 from Aylmer, Quebec, June 7, J. N. Knull; paratype h (female) 

 without data; allotype male and paratypes c-f (male) reared by 

 W. F. Fiske on June 4, 1905, from larvae of a Melandryid in fir, 

 under Hopkins U. S. No. 35684; paratype g (male) Sudbury, 

 Ontario; paratype h (male) Ithaca, New York, May 31, 1913; and 

 paratype i (male) Montreal, Canada. 



Paratype c was compared by Eohwer with Provancher's male of 

 canadensis and determined as that species. 



Paratypes a and g are in the Canadian National Collection and 

 paratypes A and i in the Cornell University Collection. 



All the females are very nearly of the same size, while the males 

 range from 6 to 13 mm. 



ODONTOMERUS PUNCTATUS, new species 



Odontomerus mellipes Rohwek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, 1920, p. 458, 



female (part). 

 Odontomerus canadensis Rohwee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, 1920, p. 45S, 



female (part). 



The type of this species was confused by Eohwer with mellipes 

 (Say), and one of the paratypes with canadensis Provancher. It is, 

 however, very distinct from those species by the characters used in 



