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distinct. Distal segment of abdomen long-pointed. Stigmal vein 

 slightly shorter than the postmarginal. Funicle 1 somewhat over 

 half the length of the body of the scape. 



Described from two females reared from Ceroplastes naleatus 

 Newstead, Kampala, Uganda, Africa (C. C. Gowdey), September, 

 1915. 



Types — Catalogue No. 2009'>, U. S. N. M., the above speci- 

 mens on tags, plus a slide bearing nntenniv, a fore wing, caudiil 

 legs, a fore leg and a middle tibia. 



Aphelinus automatus Girault. 

 A female. \'ienna, X'irgiiiia, from Aphis solaria (W. F. Turner). 



Coelopisthia confusa, new species. 



Female — The same in stature, and so forth, as Jumosipennis 

 Gahan, but differing as follows: The legs (excluding the concolorous 

 coxa') are darker, being reddish; the antenna^ are inserted a little 

 higher up on the face and differ notably in that the ring-joints are 

 normal (that is not large, the second not subquadrate), the scape 

 is red, the pedicel nearly all dusk\- black, funicle 1 a little wider 

 than long, 4-6 subequal, much wider than long; the infuscation 

 of the fore wing is fainter and more diffused, yet distinct. At 

 least one mandible 4-dentate (other not seen). Flagellum black. 



Described from one female in the collections of the U. S. N. M., 

 labelled " Semiotellus chalcidiphagus Walsh., Washington, D. C." 

 This species, superficially, is very similar to Homoporus crassinervis 

 Thomson. 



7>pg— Catalogue No. 20096, U. S N. M.. the above female 

 on a tag, a pair of wings, a caudal tibia and the antennae on a slide. 



A NEW GENUS OF PTEROMALID CHALCIDOID 

 HYMEXOPTERA FROM NORTH AMERICA. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, GLENNDALE, MD. 



Tomocerodes, new genus. 



Female. — Belongs to the Eunotinae. Like Tomocera Howard, 

 except that the caudal tibia is armed with a very long, stout spur, 



