NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. V. 
By Chari^ds T. Brues. 
FAMILY BETHYLIDAE. 
Goniozus hortorutn sp. nov. 
Female. Length 2.25 mm. Black; antennte, except apex, pale 
yellow, legs x^i^^ous, the anterior pair and all the tarsi brownish- 
yellow. Head siib-shining-, shagreened and with scattered large 
pnnctnres ; one and one-half times as long as wide. Face with a 
median carina between the antennae that extends just above the level 
of the lower eye-margin, and a lateral one of the same extent on each 
side above the antenna-. Seen from above the head is three times as 
long as the eyes. Eyes bare, ocelli in a small triangle near the 
posterior margin of the head. Antennai 13-jointed, extending only a 
short distance beyond the vertex; slender, with the joints snbmonili- 
form. Scajje stout, two times as long as thick. First flagellar joint 
oi)ly one-half as long as the pedicel, which is a little longer than the 
second; following subequal, becoming distinctly moniliform before the 
ti]). Mandibles varying from ])ice()us to black. Palpi piceous, malar 
space very short. Pi-onotum and mesonotum sculptured like the head, 
the former evenly narnnved iu front, and about two and one-half times 
as long as the mesonotum, the latter almost two times as wide as long'. 
Scutelium shagreened, distinctly longer than the mesonotum and as 
broad as long, separated from the mesonotum by a very delicate suture 
and with a short ol)lique linear fovea on each side basally. Metanotum 
strongly shagreened laterally, but smooth and polished medially; 
the entire lateral margins and the lower edge of the i)Osterior slope 
nuirg-ined, but otherwise without cariujc, except for a trace of one 
laterally at the toj) of the posterior edge. It is slig-htly longer than 
the mesonotum and scutelium together, with the posterior face coarsely 
shagreened. Abdomen oval, polished, as long or slightly longer than 
the head aiul thorax together ; second and following segments broadly 
emargiiuite on their ])()sterior margins. Legs stout but not at all 
spinose. Claws bifid, with a long slender inner tooth. Wings hyaline, 
both stigmata ])iceous, the stig'ma somewhat but only slightly larger 
than the parastigma, I'asal nervure angulai'ly broken, but without 
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