20, 6 Fouts: New Parasitic Hymenoptera 625 
Type.—Catalogue No. 24318, United States National Museum. 
Paratype returned to Baker. 
Loboscelidia maculipennis sp. nov. 
Female.—Length, 3 millimeters. Head longer than high seen 
from the side, the cheeks not wider than the eyes; face flattened, 
deeply excavated in the region of the antennal sockets, carinate 
laterally, the ridge running from the antennal ledge to the 
occiput; face striate and aciculate, with a short longitudinal | 
suture in the middle; ocelli not situated in a depression, close 
together, the lateral ones their diameters apart and their diam- 
eters distant from the posterior margin of the head; cheeks 
Fic. 1. Loboscelidia maculipennis sp. nov.; head, lateral view. 
and malar space polished, sparsely covereg with curious, short, 
club-shaped hairs of a silvery color; antennal ledge long, prom- 
inent, not thick, rounded in front; dorsal cervical plate flat- 
tened, quadrate, the membrane not conspicuous, extending down 
upon the cheeks, not touching the pronotal membrane which 
is ear-shaped, prominent; antenne longer than the body, the 
joints beyond the scape cylindrical, equally wide; scape three 
times as long as wide, narrowed slightly proximad, with a 
narrow membrane beneath; pedicel as wide as long, one-third 
as long as joint 3, which is subequal, to 12; in one antenna joint 
10 is subconcave below and in the other antenna joint 10 is con- 
cave above (probably an abnormal condition) ; joint 13 three 
