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all cross-linear, 3 widest; funicle 1, quadrate; 5 a little wider 

 than long; pedicel as long as funicle 1. Pronotum shorter than 

 the scutum. 



From one female in the U. S. National Museum from Biscayne 

 Bay, Florida (Ashmead). 



Type— Catalogue No. 2QS2/;, U. S. N. M., the female on a tag, 

 a fore wing, caudal leg and an antenna on a slide. 



Microdontomerus anthonomi Crawford. 



Lutesville, Mo., (G. W. Barber). Antennee 13-jointed with 

 one ring-joint ; funicle joints subequal but 7 somewhat wider, each 

 about twice wider than long, shorter than the pedicel. The median 

 carina on the propodeum may be doubled or trebled. In three 

 females from the above locality, it was single, double and treble. 

 The propodeum is more or less glabrous along the meson; it was 

 tricarinate at the meson with one of th^ type females. Fore 

 femur compressed. 



Asympiesiella India, new species. 



Female — Agrees with the desrription of the genotype except 

 that only the caudal coxa is metallic at its proximal half, the s^ape 

 is brownish black except along the ventral margin, the propodeum 

 is scaly, funicle 1 is only a third longer than 4 which is twice longer 

 than wide, the mandibles are 7-dentate; and the male differs in 

 having the caudal coxa (except at apex), the distal half of the 

 caudal femur and the same of the caudal tibia, black; its scape 

 is pale except at apex, the white on the abdomen is confined to the 

 meson; and funicle 4 is not quite twice the length of the club, 

 the latter subequal to funicles 3 and 5. Rami on funicles 1-3, 

 from the base of each, same side. 



Head and thorax in both sexes scaly punctate. 



Described from two pairs of each ssx reared from Gracillaria 

 soyella, the Tar Leaf-folder, Pusa, Behar, India, (T. B. Fletcher). 



Types — Catalogue No. 20325, U. S. N. M., the specimens 

 on four slides with a female antenna of Sympiesis dolichogaster 

 Ashmead. 



This Indian species differs from the North American Sympiesis 

 dolichogaster Ashmead most notably in having the median carina 

 of the propodeum but half complete and the scape less coloured. 

 The species are congeneric. The validity of Asympiesiella must 



