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somewhat longer than wide, the scape short and dilated ventrad, the 

 flagellum clothed with rather dense, soft greyish hairs. 



Described from one pair reared from Ancylus nubecidana, 

 Winchester, Virginia, April i, 1915 (B. R. Leach). 



Types: Catalogue No. 20131, U. S. N. M., the above pair 

 on tags, the heads and a pair of female wings on a slide. 



Pseudomphale steirastomae new species. 



9 . Differs from metallicus Ashmead in that the cephalic femur is 

 concolorous (in the type female, the cephalic legs yellow except coxae 

 in the other species) and the tibiae are distinctly marked with black; 

 in nigrocyaneus Ashmead, the tibiae are all white and the propodeum 

 mostly glabrous ; closely allied with- lixivorus Crawford but differs in 

 having the cross-stripe of scaliness on segment 2 of the abdomen dis- 

 tinctly shorter and less distinct, the eyes are larger; floridanus (which 

 differs from microgastcr mostly in the male sex) has the tibiae all 

 white, the propodeum glabrous and the second abdominal segment with 

 minute pin-punctures (except broadly at base) ; from brasiliensis in 

 having the tibiae dark, the second segment of the abdomen shorter 

 (only somewhat less than half the length of the abdomen not three- 

 fourths its length as in brasiliensis) and the different sculpture of the 

 latter; from ancylae in the different coloration of the legs, the scaly 

 propodeum and the different sculpture of the second abdominal seg- 

 iment; from hypatia in the scaly propodeum only. Of the stature of 

 hypatia. 



The pedicel is elongate, somewhat longer than funicle i ; funicle 3 

 is somewhat closely attached to the club so that region superficially 

 appears 3-jointed (transition, no doubt). 



$. Similar; its funicle 4-jointed, the joints short, the scape dilated. 

 Three ring-joints. Funicle I subequal to the club (more or less) 

 nearly twice longer than wide, the others subquadrate. Mandibles hi- 

 dentate and with four or five comblike teeth following the acute second 

 tooth. 



Described from six males, four females reared from the 

 larvae of Steirastoma deprcssum, Erin, Trinidad, British West 

 Indies, January, 1913 (F. W. Urich). 



Types: Catalogue No. 20132, U. S. N. M., one female, three 

 males on tags and a head of each sex on a slide. 



Pseudomphale graciliventris new species. 



9 . Of rather small size for the genus. Similar in stature and so 

 forth to atroscapus Girault but the abdomen is more slender and grace- 

 ful and differs in sculpture, there being no distal cross-stripe of scali- 



