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as long as thick at apex. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown- 

 black. 



Hab. Canobie Lake, N. H. (Bred from larva of Phycis rubrifasciella.} 



(59) Acrobela tachinse, n. sp. 



9- Length 1.8 mm. Head and thorax black, shining; scape of an 

 tennae, legs, including coxae and abdomen, brownish-yellow, or pale 

 ferruginous; flagellum opaque, black; palpi whitish; labrum, mandibles, 

 except teeth and a spot on cheeks at base of mandibles, honey-yellow; 

 wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures brown. 



Head transverse, polished, a little wider than the thorax, emarginated 

 behind, the temples as wide as the eyes, the face and labrum with some 

 whitish hair.; antennae longer than body, the first joint of flagellum a little 

 longer than the second, the following gradually becoming shorter. Meso- 

 notum, with distinct parapsidal furrows and the median lobe, with a 

 median impressed line; scutellum smooth, subconvex, with a crenate 

 fovea at base; metathorax rugose, sparsely pubescent; wings hyaline, 

 the stigma elongate, thickened, wider than the first abscissa cf radius, 

 the radius originating considerably before its middle; second abscissa of 

 radius about one-half longer than the first transverse cubitus, the second 

 transverse cubitus scarcely half the length of the first; recurrent nervure 

 joining the first submarginal cell before its apex; submedian cell a little 

 longer than the median ; abdomen much shorter than the thorax, sub- 

 petiolated, the first, second and third segments shagreened, the following 

 smooth, shining; ovipositor black, scarcely visible beyond tip of abdomen. 



Hab. Canobie Lake, N. H. (Bred from a Tachinid puparium from an 

 unknown Geometrid larva.) 



(69) Asphragis pulcherrimus, n. sp. 



9. Length 7 mm. ; ovipositor 5 mm. Black, shining; clypeus. a line 

 beneath eyes, mouth-parts, a dot on anterior orbits opposite, the antennae, 

 line at summit of eyes, tegulae, a short line before, a cuneiform mark on 

 anterior margin of mesonotum, but widest and broadly separated at the 

 indications of the parapsidal furrows, and the coxae and trochanters more 

 or less, white ; the scutellum, mesopleura, most of the metapleura, and 

 legs, except as noted below, red; antennae black towards base, gradually 

 becoming paler towards apex, being a light brown or brownish-yellow 

 from the seventh joint, the flagellar joints 1-5 tinged with ferruginous at 

 tips ; anterior coxae with a black spot at base behind, their trochanters 

 blackish at base ; middle coxae mostly black behind and with a black streak 

 at sides, their trochanters blackish at base; hind coxae mostly black, with 

 two white streaks outwardly, their trochanters black at base ; middle fem 

 ora at extreme base and their tibiae at extreme apex, narrowly black; hind 

 femora at base and apex, their tibiae, except narrowly at base and at the 

 middle outwardly, and their tarsi, except narrowly at base, black. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and veins black ; the areolet wanting. Abdomen 



