NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN" 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. VL 
By Charles T. Bruks. 
FAMILY BETHYLID^. 
Anisepyris rugosicollis sp. nov. 
Female. Lengi:h 4.5 mm. Black, the head, mesonotiim, . and scu- 
tellum purplish ; pronotum greenish ; base of antennae and posterior 
legs honey-3'ellow. Head as wide as long, opaque, finely shagreened, 
with small, very irregularly arranged punctures interspersed ; cheeks 
much more coarsely sculptured ; mandibles honey-yellow with broad 
tips and four small black teeth. Antennae 12-jointed ; scape, pedicel 
and base of first flagellar joint honey-yellow ; scape rather slender, 
curved, as long as the following four joints together ; pedicel two- 
thirds longer than the first flagellar joint ; second as long as the first, 
but thicker, quadrate : following joints scarcely growing narrower, 
quadrate or transverse quadrate. E^^es elongate oval, separated by 
one-third their leng-th on the vertex and by about the same distance 
from the base of the mandibles. Ocelli placed in a small equilateral 
triangle. Pronotum widened behind, where it is nearly twice as wide 
as long, abruptly declivous in front ; its surface greenish, shining, 
coarsely longitudinally rugose, with a punctate f renum posteriorly ; 
its lateral and posterior edges margined. Mesonotum as long as the 
pronotum, blue, with greenish reflections anteriorh' on the middle lobe ; 
its surface finely shagreened, Parapsidal furrows deep, convergent 
posteriori}^ ; lateral furrows visible only behind, Scutellum purplish, 
subshining, with two fovese connected by an impressed line basallj' and 
with several large punctures posteriorly. ]Metanotum with five longi- 
tudinal carinse, besides the carinate lateral margins and posterior 
margin. Abdomen shining black. Legs black, the middle and jxjsterior 
coxiB and trochanters brown ; base of posterior femora ferruginous ; 
middle tibiae not spinous ; tarsal claws with a single tooth. Wings brown 
with a hyaline band beneath the stigma and a pale apex. Venation 
normal, the marginal vein two and one-half times as long as the basal. 
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