NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. VII. 
By Charles T. Brues. 
FAMILY BETPIYLID.^. 
Cephalonomia utahensis sp. nov. 
Female. Length 2mm. Black, except the tip of the antennal 
pedicel and the basal two joints of the tarsi which are honey yellow. 
Head oblong, Avith parallel sides, not quite twice as long as A\dde. Eyes 
oval, one-third as long as the head, exclusive of the projecting mandib- 
les ; ocelli in a very small triangle. Surface of head shining, very 
minutely shagreened or punctulate. Face between the antennre with. 
a small raised prominence with parallel sides and truncate tip, bounded 
on each side by a large depression. Antennfe 12-jointed, about as 
long as the head ; scape oblanceolate, about two and one-half times 
as long' as thick ; pedicel as long as the first and second flagellar joints 
together ; joints of the flagellum about quadrate, increasing in size to 
the sixth, then becomming slightly smaller ; apical joint two times as 
long as the penultimate. Thorax one-half longer than the head ; 
propleura finely longitudinally striated ; pronotum faintly shagreened 
with sparse microscopic punctures intermixed, nearly three times as 
long as the meson otum which is nearly four times as wide as long 
and sculptured like the pronotum ; with two very faintly indicated 
and widely separated parapsidal furrows. Scutellum with a prominent 
impressed line at the base ; mesopleura with a large round fovea an- 
teriorly and a smaller one centrally'. ]\Ietanotum with a delicate 
median carina and raised lateral margins ; the entire metathorax much 
more coarsely punctulate than the rest of the thorax. Legs as usual, 
only moderately stout ; entirely black, except the basal two joints of 
the tarsi. Wing's quite distinctly infu seated : submarginal cell only 
one-fourth the length of the A\dng ; ending in a prominent black stigma 
which is distinctly separated from the margin. Just beyond is a 
much smaller, secondar^^ stigma which is continous with the margin.. 
Edge of the wing ciliated, more prominently so along the submarginal 
cell and just beyond the apex. 
Described from one complete specimen and a part of another. 
Type in the collections of Cornell University, cotype in the 
^Milwaukee Public Museum. 
This is a slender species conspicuous by its black legs vvith 
distinctly pale base to the tarsi. It was reared from cedar ber- 
ries at Milford, Utah and sent me for identification by Mr. C. R. 
Crosby of Cornell University. 
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