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



their tibiae honey-yellow, slightly brownish in the middle; abdo- 

 men brownish only at base beneath. Male: petiole shagreened, 

 longer than hind coxae and as long as the succeeding abdominal 

 segment ; all legs, except mid and hind coxae, honey-yellow. 

 Reared from grape seeds. 



Axima Walker. 

 °A. zabriskei Howard. Insect Life, Vol. ii., p. 365, Figs. 

 68-70. 



Female: length 6 mm.; mostly black, with indefinite ferru- 

 ginous markings, especially on the thorax ; antennae mostly black, 

 scape reddish at base; thorax on sides of pronotum and mesono- 

 tum more ferruginous than elsewhere; all coxae black and punc- 

 tate, all trochanters dark honey-yellow, all femora and tibiae 

 black in the middle and dark honey-yellow at the tips, all tarsi 

 honey-yellow; wings hyaline, veins very dark brown; abdomen 

 ferruginous only at base beneath; male very much like the 

 female. 



Bned from nests of Ceratina dupla, or the small carpenter bee. 



PERILAMPID^. 

 Key to Genera. 



Scutel not produced into a spear-shaped process or spine; 

 thorax umbilicately punctate; antennae 13-jointed, flagel at 

 most subclavate , Perilampus p. 524 



Scutel prolonged into a spear-shaped process or spine .... 



Etiperilainpua p. 525 



Perilampus Latreille. 



P. hyalinus Say. 



Length 5 mm. ; mostly cyaneous, legs mostly greenish golden, 

 tarsi rufous, scutel emarginate-bidentate at apex. 



Stafford, 24 August 1905, on goldenrod (W. E. B.). 



Has been reared from Campoplex (Ameloctonus) fugitivus, 



P. platygaster Say. 



Length about 6 mm.; mostly blackish; face impunctate, pol- 

 ished, occiput somewhat transversely striated, a little punctate 

 before the eyes ; thorax brassy blackish, with a g^brous polished 

 line on each side, scutel obtuse, rounded, slightly emarginate at 



