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any black; abdomen distinctly 

 longer than the head and thorax 



united giraulti, Dodd 



B. Thorax and abdomen not uniformly 

 brown or yellow, the metanotum 

 black or brownish-black, the ab- 

 domen somewhat dusky; abdomen 

 not or scarcely longer than the 

 head and thorax united 



(1) Male. Venation very pale-yellow, 



scarcely discernible ; wings 



hyaline muscosus, Dodd 



(2) Females. Venation fuscous ; wings 



somewhat infuscated. 



(a) First six antennal-joints yellow leai, Dodd 



( b) Antennal scape alone yellow. 



First funicle-joint a little 



shorter than the pedicel ; 



forewings broad, the apex 



very square rufinotum, Dodd 



First fuuicle-joint a little 



longer than the pedicel; 



forewings much narrower, 



the apex almost pointed tasmanicus, Dodd 



Conostigmoides, nov. gen. 



This genus is proposed to contain the species Eumegas- 

 pilus erythrothorax, Ashmead. In 1888 Ashmead erected 

 the genus Eumegasjiilus to contain two species, E . canadensis, 

 Ashmead, and E. ottawensis, Ashmead. These two species- 

 were nothing but wingless species of the genus Conostigmus, 

 Dahlbom, as Ashmead himself points out in 1893. Since the 

 two mentioned species were the only ones in the genus, the 

 genus must necessarily become a synonym of Conostigmus, 

 Dahlbom. But in 1893 Ashmead gives another description of 

 the genus, and places another species, E. erythrothorax, Ash- 

 mead, in it, at the same time eliminating the two previously 

 described species from the genus. The genus, therefore, can- 

 not hold, since it has already become a synonym of Cono- 

 stigmus. The genus Conostigmoides is, therefore, erected 

 with the type species, Conostigmoides (Eumegaspilus) 

 erythrothorax, Ashmead. 



Lagynodes flavus, sp. nov. 



9 - Golden-yellow ; eyes black ; antennae somewhat suf- 

 fused with brown. Head much wider than the thorax, almost 

 as long as wide; the frons directed dorsad; ocelli absent; eyes 

 small, but nearly twice as long as wide ; mandibles bidentate. 

 Antennae 11 -jointed; scape long and slender; pedicel scarcely 

 longer than wide ; funicle joints gradually widening towards 

 the apex; joints 1-6 very short, transverse; seventh rather 



