162 Bulletin W}f<co}hsiu Xatiiral Historij Society. [Vol. 6. Xos. 3-4. 
Nesomyia cimbicis sp. nov. 
Female. Length. 1.25 — 1.5 mm. Metallic green, head more bluish ; 
spots on the axillae and the occiput below, and the face, more or less 
cupreous. Head transverse, about three times as long as thick. Face 
above the insertion of the antennae finely rugose punctate, above on the 
vertex shagreened. Ocelli large, in a small triangle. Eyes pubescent. 
Vertex and front ^vith. a few stiff white erect hairs. ^Nlandibles^ small, 
acute, bidentate ; cheeks short, about one-eighth the eye-height ; malar 
furrow present. Antenme 9-jointed ; scape, pedicel, one ring joint, 
three funicle joints and a three jointed club, the club with only two 
distinct joints, the apical one being very small and slender, styluslike ; 
funiclfe joints each about two times as wide as long; first club joint 
slightly shorter and thicker ; second as long as the first, tapering ; all 
the antennal joints rather hairy ; mesonotum and scutellum scaly punc- 
tate, the parapsidal furrows indicated posteriorly as depressions, 
obsolete anteriorly ; scutellum nearh' as long as the mesonotum, 
acutely rounded behind, with a long bristle on each side near the 
middle ; postscutellum very short, very broadly angled medially at the 
tip. Metanotum very short, fiueh^ rugulose. Abdomen sessile, almost or- 
bicular, with obtusely pointed apex ; segment two the longest ; three to 
six shorter, nearly equal, the last small, triangular. Wings hyaline, 
pubescent, with short marginal cilia ; submarginal vein one-half as 
long as the pale marginal : stigmal short, clavate ; postmarginal nearly 
two times as long as the marginal. Legs slender, pale yellow, almost 
white, their coxae aeneous black except at the extreme apices. 
Three specimens, bred from eggs of Cimhex americana Leach, 
collected at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Type in the Milwaukee Pub- 
lic Museum. They were brought to me for identification by ^Ir. 
Henry Severin of the University of Ohio. 
FAMILY BRACONID^. 
Cosmophorus hypothememi sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1 mm. Piceous black; face and first three 
joints of antennae yellowish brown ; legs fuscous,, trochanters, knees, 
base and tips of tibiae and base of tarsi yellowish or testaceous. Head one 
and three-fourths times as wide as thick, much excavated on the occiput. 
Front with a deep excavation above the insertion of the antennae, the 
median ocellus placed on its upper margin. Antennae inserted on a 
projecting ledge which bears two approximated teeth at the insertion 
of the antennae. Antennae 14- jointed, filiform, the scape stout and 
