No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 27I 



mineous to brownish stramineous, more or less whitish or yel- 

 lowish white posteriorly, fore and mid tarsi yellow, hind tarsi 

 brown; abdomen mostly reddish; constricted portion of first 

 segment, baasl three-fourths of second, and greater part of basal 

 half of third dorsal segment, black or blackish. 



Type locality: New Haven, 6 July, 1904 (P. L. B.), on 

 flowers of New Jersey tea {Ceanothus americanus). 



Subgenus Neonortonia Viereck. 



Limneria Cresson (in part). Campoplex Cresson (in part). 



*Casinaria (N.) genuina (Norton). 



Female and male : length 9 mm. ; black ; legs stramineous ; 

 body sericeous, with white hair; palpi yellowish, face scarcely 

 narrowed below antennae, ocelli ruby-colored or pale; smooth 

 space beneath wings with fine curved striae ; coxae and trochanters 

 black, apical joints of tarsi blackish; wings hyaline; male with 

 the white hairs on the face shorter than in the opposite sex. 



Subgenus Viereckiana Strand (Anisitsia Viereck, preoccupied.) 

 Campoplex Cresson (in part). 



*Casinaria (A.) vitticoUis (Norton). 

 Female: length 15 mm.; prevailing color of thorax reddish, 

 with a black stripe; antennae reddish at tip and at base, eyes 

 scarcely contracted below, head black, mandibles, palpi and 

 tegulae yellow, tips of mandibles dark, face and thorax covered 

 with silvery hair; black stripe on thorax extending nearly all 

 the way from the head to the base of the propodeum, being inter- 

 rupted only by the scutel, which latter is rufous at its apex; 

 abdomen mostly reddish, a line on the second dorsal segment, 

 sheaths of the ovipositor and the under surface of the abdomen 

 itself, black; fore legs, tips of mid femora and legs below, and 

 bases of hind tibiae, yellow; a line on fore femora above, mid 

 coxae, trochanters and femora, hind coxae, trochanters, bases of 

 femora beneath, and tarsi, black ; mid and hind coxae above, their 

 femora and apices of their tibiae mostly reddish ; wings yellowish 

 hyaline, veins dark. 



New Haven, 22 August, 1904 (P. L. B.). 



