CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA—No. 2

Extract

Coleocentrus canadensis, n. sp.

Female.—Length, 20 mm. Black, with red legs. Head transverse, as wide as thorax; cheeks as wide as eyes; face slightly swollen below antennæ, clothed with short pubescence, and with the inner orbits faintly yellowish below; palpi and inner edges of mandibles and labrum rufous; vertex and cheeks polished, the area of the ocelli without noticeable depressions or sutures; antennæ long and moderately thick, the joints about forty and subsequal. Thorax polished above; the lobes of the mesothorax prominent, the central sulcate; pleuræ and pectus rugose or subaciculate, but without definite striæ; scutellum moderately large and elevated; metathorax with acute carinæ; the area enclosed by the two discal carinæ about twice as long as wide; in the area enclosed by the two lateral carinæ the elongate spiracle may be plainly seen almost in centre; the areas between lateral and discal carinæ transversely rugose; legs slender with robust coxæ, entirely rufous with exception of hinder tibiæ and tarsi, which are somewhat brownish; wings faintly yellowish, stigma and nervures brown, areolet small, triangular and pedicellate, receiving the recurrent nervue at outer angle.