1907.] Bines, North American Parasitic Hymenoptera. 
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transversely to the median line below the antennae. Lower half of 
the sides of the face cross-striated. Clypens smooth, occiput cheeks 
and malar space finely striated. Malar space distinctly longer than 
the eye-heig-ht. Mandibles falcate ; testaceous, with long sharp tips 
and no teeth within. Antennae 11-jointed, reaching as far as the tip 
of the scutellum ; scape and ring-joint yellow ; flagellum black, except 
the apical four joints, which are fuscous. First flagellar joint three 
times as long as the scax:)e and more than twice as long as the second ; 
following joints growing shorter, the seventh twice as long as thick. 
Prothorax entirely pale testaceous. ]Mesonotum pale testaceous, with 
a large median horseshoe-shaped spot, a large oval spot on each of the 
parapsides, basal half of axillae, narrowed medially and connected with 
a median scutellar stri])e that includes the scutellar teeth, also black, 
The entire surface of the thorax is coarsely reticu lately punctate with 
the sutures crenulate. Scutellum triangular, with two blunt divergent 
teeth at the apex ; it is as long' as the mesonotum medially. .Metathorax 
deeply constricted at the base and bilobate behind, but without teeth 
or sharp protuberances ; more or less black on the sides and with a 
dark line above. Propleurae entirely pale testaceous ; mesopleurae with 
three confluent testaceous spots above, the second of which extends 
farther down. Leg's and abdominal petiole pale testaceous, slender, 
the latter as long as the posterior femora. Coxae blackened at the 
extreme base, and last tarsal joint piceous. Abdomen as high as the 
thorax and one-half as long, squarely truncate at the base ; polished 
black, the second segment concealing- all the following ones. It is 
black, with a large hone^'-yellow crescentic mark on each side. Ovi- 
positor very minute. Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow; marginal 
vein long, two-thirds the length of the submarginal ; stigmal quadrate, 
sessile ; postmarginal very short. 
One specimen from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 
This is the first member of this genus to be discovered in 
North America although two species are known from Brazil. 
Kapala furcata Fabr. 
Mr. Schaeffer sent me a number of specimens of this beautiful 
Eucharid from Brownsville, Texas. The species occurs in Brazil, 
and has also been found in Grenada, but I believe that this is the 
first time that it has been recorded from so far north as the United 
