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distinct median carina. Wings hyaline, the stigma brown, the first ab 

 scissa of radius shorter than the transverse cubital nervure, or the upper 

 side of the areolet. Hind coxae long, cylindrical, extending to the apex 

 of the third abdominal segment. Abdomen about as long as the thorax ; 

 the plate of first segment is narrow, in outline conical, about three times 

 as long as wide at base ; the plate and the second dorsal segment are 

 longitudinally aciculate or striate, the latter being shorter than the third 

 segment and with two oblique furrows, sometimes almost obliterated by 

 the striae. 



Hab. Canobie Lake, N. H. (Bred from a Lepidopterous larva feed 

 ing on Pltuitago major.} 



(34) Protapanteles ephyrse, n. sp. 



$ . Length 2 mm. Black, pubescent, the head and thorax somewhat 

 closely finely punctate, subopaque ; palpi yellowish-white; legs except 

 coxae and tips of hind femora, tips of tibiae and their tarsi except annulus 

 at base of first joint, brownish-yellow; lateral membranous margins of 

 first segment, and basal half of venter, yellow; the costa, stigma, and 

 poststigmal vein dark brown, rest of veins subhyaline. The antennae are 

 much longer than the body, thickened at base and gradually becoming 

 slenderer towards apex, the first flagellar the shortest and stoutest, three 

 times as long as thick, the second four times as long as thick, the follow 

 ing relatively longer and slenderer ; mandibles ferruginous. Metathorax 

 finely rugulose, shining, without carina; hind coxae elongate, polished 

 except a few microscopic punctures on the outer ridge towards base. 



Wings hyaline, the recurrent nervure and second branch of the me 

 dian nervure of an equal length, first abscissa of radius about one and 

 two-third times as long as the transverse cubital nervure (the inner side 

 of the areolet); hind wings with a closed discoidal cell and two margina 

 cells defined by subobsolete hyaline nervures. Abdomen shorter than the 

 thorax, the plate of first segment long trapezoidal more than twice as 

 long as wide, with the hind angles slightly rounded, the surface, 

 especially in apical third, delicately sculptured with oblong punctures ; 

 second segment about as long as the third ; somewhat coarsely acicu- 

 lated, with a median ridge about as long as the third; third and following 

 segments smooth, the fourth and fifth segments equal, united a little 

 longer than third, sixth segment a little shorter than fifth ; the seventh 

 very short. 



Hab. Canobie Lake, N. H. (Bred from Ephyra pendulinarta.) 



(35) Protapanteles tortricis, n. sp. 



9. Length i.Sto 2 mm. ; ovipositor clavate, half the length of abdo 

 men. Black, subopaque, clothed with a somewhat dense, greyish pubes 

 cence; head in front and the pro- and meso-thorax minutely punctulate; 

 scutellum polished, feebly, sparsely, microscopically punctate; metatho- 

 rax not long, finely wrinkled ; mesopleura smooth, but pubescent; man- 



