138 



punc- 



less infuscated ... 

 segment striate, 

 male antennae 



(2) Head with a few scattered 



tures ; wings infuscated 

 Head riigulose 



(3) Abdomen wholly striate; shining- 



black 



First and segments striate; abdomen 

 dark-brown 



(4) Forewings hyaline 

 Forewings more or 



(5) First abdominal 



others rugulose ; 



fusoous 



Abdomen wholly striate ; male an- 

 tennae, except scape, golden-yellow 



(6) Abdomen whollj^ longitudinally rugu- 



lose ; forewings not much infuscated 

 First and second segments striate, 



others punctured ; forewings not 



much infuscated 



Abdomen AvhoUy striate, forewings 



much infuscated 



(7) Female antennae black ; male an- 



tennae with first three joints black, 



others suffused with yellow 



Female antennae with first three 

 joints reddish-yellow; male an- 

 tennae reddish-yellow 



(8) Head, pronotum, sides of thorax 



covered with whitish pubescence ... 

 Pubescence not distinct 



(3) 

 (4) 



pulchellus, Crawford 



fulgidus, CraAvford 



(5) 



(6) 



nigricornis, Dodd 

 flavicornis, Dodd 

 froggatti, Crawford 



chortoicetes, Froggatt 

 (7) 



(8) 



ovi, Girault 



pilosus, Dodd 

 australis, Frogga.tt 



Neoscelio, nov. gen. 



9 . Like Scelio, Latrielle, but the antennal funicle is not 

 widened and compressed, and the club is distinct, 6-jointed ; the 

 postscutellum is produced caudad into a long, semi-erect spine ; 

 the abdomen is subsessile, first segment as long as wide, second 

 longer, third the longest, remaining segments short ; abdomen 

 no longer than head and thorax united, wider than the thorax; 

 maxilliary palpi 3-jointed. 



Type. — Neoscelio f/loriosvs, described herewith. 



Neoscelio gloriosus, sp. nov. 



$ . Black ; legs, including coxae, reddish-yellow ; scape, 

 pedicel, and funicle-joints of antennae reddish-yellow. Head 

 coarsely reticulately rugulose, a little wider than the thorax; 

 ocelli large, in a triangle, close together, the lateral ones dis- 

 tant from the eye margins by more than their own diameter ; 

 mandibles bidentate, external tooth long, inner tooth short. 

 Antennae 12-jointed; scape long and slender, but scarcely 

 longer than next two joints combined ; pedicel rather long, 

 one-half longer than wide ; first funicle-joint long, two-thirds 

 longer than the pedicel; second joint one-half length of first; 



