274 CONNECTICUT* GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



whitish along part of each of the following veins : second trans- 

 verse cubitus, cubitodiscoidal, and second recurrent; abdomen 

 with its dorsal segments more or less broadly banded with yellow 

 apically ; ovipositor not exserted ; dorsulum sometimes with four 

 yellow spots. 



Rockville, 23 August, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



Exetastes Gravenhorst. 

 Key to Species. 



1. Length 12 mm 2 



Length 10.5 mm.; answers fairly well to description of fasci- 



pennis as given below, except as follows: scutel yellow, 

 wings almost uniformly brownish, with a yellowish stigma; 

 antennae uniformly brownish; exserted portion of oviposi- 

 tor nearly one-half length of hind tibiae scutellaris 



2. Reddish with blackish sutures to thorax and a brownish 



tip to hind tibiae; antennae brown, with a yellow annulus 

 involving more or less of joints nine to fourteen inclusive; 

 wings yellowish, transparent, tinted with brown, a broad 

 yellowish band extending from anterior to posterior mar- 

 gins of fore wings and originating at basal half of stigma; 

 exserted portion of ovipositor as long as hind coxae fascipennis 

 Male: black, except eyes, which are steel-color in death; an- 

 tennae brownish; wings transparent brownish, fore and mid 

 femora mostly, and all tibiae and tarsi, lemon-yellow. Fe- 

 male similar to male suaveolens 



°E. scutellaris Cresson. Howard, Insect Book, PI. ix. Fig. 17. 

 °E. fascipennis Cresson. Howard, Insect Book, PI. x, Fig. 7. 

 °E. suaveolens Walsh. 



Pristomerus Curtis. 

 *P. olamonus Viereck (new species). 

 Female: 3.5 mm. long; head in front mostly brownish, be- 

 hind mostly black or blackish, as is the thorax; abdomen above 

 mostly brown ; abdomen beneath and legs mostly brownish stra- 

 mineous ; antennae mostly blackish, their scape and pedicel brown ; 

 sheaths of the ovipositor blackish, exserted portion of the latter 

 nearly as long as the abdomen; orbits reddish and yellowish 

 brown ; notauli, space between them on the posterior half of the 

 dorsulum, scutel, and propleurae, more or less brown, tegulae yel- 

 lowish. 



Type locality: Rockville, 23 August, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



