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the caudal tibiae just below the knees dorsad. Also, the scape and 

 pedicel and funicle i are white and there is no suffused stripe across 

 the wing from the substigmal spot. Compared with paratypes of the 

 typical form and with type giraulti. The latter has a silvery band 

 across base of the abdomen, at least ventrad. 



Described from one female on a slide labelled "W 5529. 

 Secondary parasite of Asphondylia miki on alfalfa seed. Saca- 

 ton, Ariz., June 5, 1911. Smyth." 



Type. Catalogue No. 19183, United States National Mu- 

 seum, a female on a slide. 



5. Lathromeroides neomexicanus new species. 



Female. Length, i.oo mm. Dusky yellow, the abdomen with three 

 to four black cross-stripes, thus like fasciatircntris but the antennae 

 and legs are pallid except the distal half of the club (joint 3), proxi- 

 mal two-thirds of the pedicel, coxae, femora, most of tibiae and dis- 

 tal tar sal joint which are dusky. Exserted valves of the ovipositor 

 black. Pedicel elongate. Two-ring joints. 



Described from one female reared from jassid eggs, Las 

 Vegas, New Mexico, C. N. Ainslie. Webster No. 6689. 



Type. Catalogue No. 19184, United States National Mu- 

 seum. 



The hypopygium is very prominent in this genus. 



6. Trichogramma minutum Riley. The following rearing rec- 

 ords : From eggs of Estigmcne acrcae Drury, Dallas, Texas, W. D. 

 Pierce. A male from eggs on Cyperus, Lakeland, Florida, G. G. Ains- 

 lie. Webster No. 5272 AA. Three females, same locality and collec- 

 tor, from eggs of Eudamus proteus. Webster No. 8390. January 6, 

 1913. A male, same locality, from egg of Bactra lanccolana, Web- 

 ster, No. 5272 T. Two females from alfalfa, Tempe, Arizona. T. S. 

 Wilson, August 3, 1913. Webster No. 7222 G. And a female from 

 eggs of Anisota scnatoria, College Park, Maryland, August I, 1914. 

 N. Kisliuk, A. B. Gahan. Also many specimens, 9-7, 1912, Mitchell- 

 ville, Maryland, from eggs of Ceratomia catalpae, A. B. Gahan. 



XENUFENS new genus CHAETOSTRICHINI. 

 Female. In my table of genera runs to Japouia but differs 

 notably in the structure of the antennae, which are short 

 and strongly cap^|^^the club short and enlarged, the funicle 

 transverse-sendB ^tlar, both joints much wider than long, 

 the pedicel o^WJKalf the size of the club, the one ring- 



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