588 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



$ Differs from the $ in 'having the antennae longer, 26 jointed, 

 while the legs are slightly differently colored, the extreme apices of the 

 middle and the hind tibiae and their tarsi being fuscous. 



Type. Cat. no. 5367, U. S. national museum 



Habitat. Saranac Inn N. Y. Taken in June and July by Prof. 

 James G. Needham. 



Family 78 braconidjvec 

 APHiDius Nees. 



Aphidius nigripes sp. nov. 

 ,$ Length 1.5 mm. Entirely black except as follows: the extreme 

 apex of the clypeus, the mandibles, the second joint of the trochanters 

 and the knees are honey-yellow, the tibiae and tarsi dark brown or fus- 

 cous, almost black. The antennae are 19 jointed, longer than the body, 

 the joints of the flagellum being not quite thrice as long as thick. Wings 

 hyaline; tegulae and veins brown, the stigma withi?!^ the recurrent ner- 

 vure, the transverse cubitus and the second abscissa of the radius being 

 pallid or subhyaline. 



Type. Cat. no. 5368, U. S. national museum 



Habitat. Saranac Inn N. Y. Taken in June and July by Prof. 

 James G. Needham. 



This species in a table of our species, prepared for my Monograph of 

 the North American Braconidae^ falls next to A. obscuripes, but is 

 distinguished by the color of the legs and differences in antennal char- 

 acters. 



New stilpnine parasitic on dipterous puparia 

 Atractodes sepedontis sp. nov. 

 $ Length 5 mm. Black, with the second and third abdominal segments, 

 the mandibles, and the legs, except the hind tarsi rufous ; hind tarsi dark 

 fuscous or black. Antennae 21 jointed, black, the third joint the longest, 

 a little longer than the second, the following gradually and almost imper- 

 ceptibly shortening. Head and thorax pohshed, the parapsedal furrows 

 well defined anteriorly, gradually becoming obsolete posteriorly before 

 attaining the base of the scutellum. Mesosternum and metathorax 

 rugulose opaque, the latter sloping from the base to apex, with the basal 

 lateral and pleural areas alone well defined. Wings hyaline, the stigma 

 and veins dark brown, the tegulae, the median and submedian veins in 

 the front wings toward the base and the subcostal vein in the hind wings 



