276 Say*$ Descriptions of 



feet honey-yellow : thighs bluish-green ; posterior pair 

 of tarsi whitish. 



Length ^ nearly one tenth of an inch. 



The surface has no large and obvious punctures like 

 those which distinguish the preceding. 



Sparasionj Latr. 



S. famelicus. Slender ; abdomen longitudinally line- 

 ated. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body much elongated, very slender ; with small punc- 

 tures ; black : antennce, six basal joints dull yellowish, 

 remaining joints close-set ; 2d and 3d joints equal : man- 

 dibles piceous : thorax with the anterior segment arcu- 

 ated, each side to the wings ; two distant, dorsal, longi- 

 tudinal, impressed lines: wings hyaline; nervure not 

 distant from the edge, branch divaricating from the edge, 

 not dilated at its tip : metathorax with longitudinal, ele- 

 vated lines : aMomm elongated, with numerous, longitu- 

 dinal, parallel, elevated lines both on the ter^um and ven- 

 ter : feet honey-yellow. 



Length over three twentieths of an inch. 



Ceraphron, Jur. Latr. 



I.e. armatus. Wings fuliginous in the middle ; ter- 

 gum striate at base. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, with rather distant punctures: thorax 

 with tliree longitudinal lines before, approaching behind : 

 wings fuliginous in the middle ; nervure, carpal spot and 

 branch robust, fuscous ; the carpal spot or stigma rather 



