296 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Rhimphalea Foerster. 

 *R. erythrogastra Viereck (new species). 



Female : length 8.5 mm. ; most of front, vertex, occiput, and 

 cheeks black; rest of head mostly yellow; scape mostly brown; 

 pedicel mostly black or blackish; flagel with its basal half pale 

 brown beneath, dark brown or blackish above, its apical half 

 mostly pale brown throughout ; thorax mostly black ; tegulae, an- 

 terior margin of propleurae, three marks on mesopleurae, scutel 

 mostly and postscutel mostly, yellow ; middle third of propodeum 

 mostly reddish ; wings with a quadrangular petiolate areolet ; 

 fore and mid coxae and trochanters mostly or entirely yellow ; 

 most of the remaining portions of the fore and mid legs brown- 

 ish stramineous ; hind coxae and trochanters mostly yellow ; the 

 femora partly reddish or concolorous with the hind femora, 

 which latter are tipped with dusky and yellow ; hind tibias yellow- 

 ish at base, with a sub-basal blackish annulus, the remaining 

 portion brown, tipped with dusky, their tarsi mostly blackish; 

 abdomen mostly reddish, the basal segment black basally, the 

 third and following dorsal segments with an apical yellowish 

 margin, the fourth and following dorsal segments more or less 

 dusky. 



Type locality: Branford, i July, 1905 (H. W. W.). 



Otoblastus Foerster. 



O. compressiventris (Cresson). 



Female : length 5 mm. ; head and thorax black, with a median 

 spot on the face; clypeus, mouth-parts, tegulae, tubercles, a spot 

 or two on the mesopleurae, a triangular spot on the margins of the 

 mesonotum, fore and mid coxae and trochanters, all lemon-yel- 

 low ; rest of legs stramineous ; abdomen reddish ; ultimate, penul- 

 timate, and sometimes the antepenultimate dorsal abdominal seg- 

 ments blackish or black, as is most of the basal dorsal segment ; 

 antennae brownish red; ovipositor exserted; abdomen strongly 

 compressed toward apex. Male : differs in the following particu- 

 lars : face entirely, antennae beneath, spot on cheeks beneath, and 

 stripe on anterior half of mesopleurae, yellow ; abdomen blackish, 

 reddish on the second and third dorsal segments; hind coxae 

 black, yellow at apex. 



