22 MELANDER AND BRUES. 



Encyrtinae gen. et sp. indesc. 



Among the Chalcididae there is a single specimen which Mr. 

 Ashmead, who has kindly examined it, informs us represents 

 an undescribed genus of Encyrtinae. Unfortunately it is too 

 poorly preserved to permit of an accurate characterization in the 

 large and difficult group to which it belongs. 



Cirrospiloideus (Miotropis) platynotae Howard. 

 A single female of this species was captured. 



Superfamily PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 

 Family SCELIONID.E. 



Telenomus sp. 



There is a single pair representing an apparently undescribed 

 species in this large and difficult genus. 



Caloteleia Marlattii Ashmead. 

 This active little species is a regular visitor about the nests. 



Caloteleia parvipennis sp. nov. 



Female. Length, 2.5 mm. Yellow, varied with darker. Head 

 black, very smooth and polished above the antenna;, finely punctured on 

 the vertex and with larger punctures intermixed. Mandibles yellow at the 

 base, black at the tip. Antennal scape pale yellow, reaching a little above 

 the vertex, the pedicel small and rounded, yellow, the flagellum about one 

 and one half times the length on the scape, black, the first flagellar joint 

 twice as long as the pedicel, then the joints decrease in size to the fourth, 

 the following six forming a thick oval club with closely articulated joints. 

 Thorax entirely yellow, except the tegulae which are black, mesonotum 

 finely punctulate, with two rather faintly marked furrows, scutellum large, 

 semicircular, smooth. Metathorax very short, emarginate in the middle, 

 smooth on the sides. Abdomen polished and perfectly smooth, except for 

 coarse longitudinal striae on the first and at the base of the second seg- 

 ments. The petiole is short quadrate, and bears a quite distinct polished 

 black tubercular horn at its base ; basal half of abdomen otherwise yellow- 

 ish varied with brown, apical half black ; third segment longest, second 

 nearly as long, others much shorter. Legs including the coxae yellow. 

 Wings short, reaching only to the middle of the abdomen. Marginal vein 

 short and swollen, stigmal about one third as long as the lengthened post- 

 marginal, costal margin sparsely ciliated. 



Described from one female specimen taken at Woods Hole, 

 Mass., on a slope that was thickly riddled with the burrows of 



