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but originating on disk of wing; under side of fore wings with a row of 

 about 7 long hairs near marginal vein; legs metallic, tarsi wh Irish. 



Male. Length about 1 mm. Similar to the female except in secondary 

 sexual characters. 



Type locality: North East, Pennsylvania. 

 Host: Polychrosis viteana. 

 Type: Cat. No. 19653 U. S. M. N. 



Described from seven specimens under Bureau of Entomology, 

 Quaintance No. 10905, R. A. Cushman, collector. 



Secodella acrobasis n. sp. 



Female. Length about 1.25 mm. Violaceous with some bluish reflec- 

 tions; first joint of funicle no longer than pedicel, all joints of the funicle 

 short, hardly longer than broad; club about as long as the last three joints 

 of the funicle combined; mesonoturn finely weakly reticulated; wings hya- 

 line with three lines of hairs from stigmal knob as in previous species; 

 basal half of the area between the two rows directed apicad, without 

 bristles; two rows of hairs near posterior margin, one discal row; under side 

 of fore wings with a row of three or four long hairs posteriad of middle of 

 marginal vein. 



Male. Length about 0.8 mm. Similar to female excepting secondary 

 sexual characters. 



Habitat: Monticello, Florida. 



Host: Acrobasis nebulella. 



Type: Cat. No. 19654, U. S. N. M. 



Described from one female and nine males under Bureau of 

 Entomology Quaintance No. 10540. Reared by J. B. Gill from 

 over- wintering larvse of the host. 



Secodella rugosus n. sp. 



Female. Length about 3.25 mm. Dark brown with propodeum and base 

 of abdomen more distinctly greenish; head and thorax, especially the 

 parapsidal areas and scutellum, more purplish; first joint of funicle much 

 longer than the pedicel and much longer than the second joint, the latter 

 about as long as pedicel, third and fourth joints of the funicle successively 

 shorter, the fourth subquadrate; club about as long as the third and fourth 

 joints of the funicle combined, the last joint without any sign of spicule; 

 head and thorax coarsely reticulated, the reticulations on the axilla;, parap- 

 sidal areas and scutellum finer; propodeum long, with a median and 

 lateral carinae and in addition irregularly rugulose; laterad of the spiracles 

 with thimblelike punctures; wings hyaline with the same number of rows of 

 bristles as in the previous species but the discal row basally curved toward 

 the rear of wing and meeting at its base the row next caudad of it; rows 

 of long hairs on under side of wing in rear of marginal vein, numbering 

 ten; legs metallic, apices of the tibia- testaceous, tarsi whitish. 



