NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. II. 
By Charles T. Brues. 
BETHYLID^E. 
Pristocera hyalina sp. nov. 
Male. Length 7.5 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, body less 
coarsely sculptured than in P. annifera Say. Head strongly punctured, 
the punctures distinctly separated toward the vertex and widely so on 
the cheeks. Mandibles and palpi entirely black ; antennae 13-jointed 
setaceous, first flagellar joint one-third longer than the second, others 
sub-equal and gradually lengthening to tip. Collar closely and evenly 
punctured, pleura of prothorax punctured above, smooth medially and 
obliquely striate below. Mesonotum with four furrows, shining, strongly 
and sparsely punctured, the scutellum smoother. Coxae and pleurae with 
well separated and only moderately strong punctures. Metathorax dis- 
tinctly areolated basalty, irregularly rugulose elsewhere. Abdomen 
oval, shining. Wings hyaline, stigmal and submarginal vein black, 
other veins brown. Marginal cell open, not narrowed. Discal nervures 
not indicated ; sub-median cell indistinctly longer than the median. 
Legs black, the tarsi piceons. Body everywhere sparsely clothed with 
grayish white pile. 
Described from a male specimen from Austin, Texas ; collected 
by the writer. 
This species comes near to the common P. armifera Say, but 
differs by its hyaline wings and less strongly punctured body. The 
difference in punctation is most marked on the cheeks, pleurae 
and coxae. 
Epyris secundus n. nov. 
Epyris analis Kieffer, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Vol. 29, pt. 2, p. 17 
(1905), (nec Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 193 (1872). 
Aphelopus varicornis sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1.75 mm. Black, legs and first two antennal joints 
light yellow ; face below the ocelli white. Head finely shagreened, 
shining black, the face white below the frontal ocellus. Clypeus trun- 
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