1907.] 
Brves, North American Parasitic Uyinenoptera. 
Ill 
Two females from Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New 
York. 
This little subapterous species might perhaps be referred to 
Ashmead's genus Pamholidea, the type of which has not been 
described, so far as I can ascertain. However, the ovipositor is 
short and the second abdominal segment much smaller. The 
more or less distinctly differentiated abdominal segments separate 
it from the more typical species of Pambolus. 
Ecphylus texanus sp. nov. 
Female. Length 3.5 mm. Piceous black ; head rufous ; antennae 
brownish-j^ellow at the base, piceous apically. Palpi and leg's, except 
four posterior femora, pale testaceous ; tip of abdomen, ovipositor and 
its sheaths except at apex rufous or brown. Head polished behind, in 
front microscopically rugulose, with a median raised polished stripe 
below the antennae. Cheeks as wide as the eyes. Antennae slender, 
21-jointed, extending- to beyond the middle of the abdomen ; first 
flagellar joint long"est. as long" as the width of the eye, following* sub- 
eqi^al but growing- shorter, the last few only a little more than half 
as long- as the first. ^Middle lobe of mesonotum transversely rugulose, 
impressed in front and depressed behind ; lateral lobes shining, 
elevated posteriorly ; scutellum triangular, with a transverse fovea 
crossed by numerous carinfe at its base. Metanotum finely rugulose, 
with a median carina and two less clearly defined lateral carinae on 
each side. Abdomen one-halt longer than the head and thorax 
together, sessile, spatulate ; first segment longitudinally striated, twice 
as wide at the tip as at the base ; following smooth and highly polished. 
Ovipositor one-fourth shorter than the body, but its sheaths are fully 
as long as the body. Wings hyaline, stigma and veins fuscous. Second 
transverse cubitus entirely wanting and the cubitus beyond the first 
cubital cell is very indistinct. Transverse median nervure in front 
wings wanting. 
One female from Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Texas. 
This is quite closely related to £. hypotheneini, Ashmead, but 
differs by its much greater size, pale color and longer ovipositor. 
Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis. 
April 4, 1907. 
