I3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l8 



tie longer than the short marginal, the latter subequal to the stigmal; 

 the spiracular sulcus is not present, the spiracle reniform and rather 

 stouter; neck of propodeum prominent, the abdomen very shortly 

 petiolate, the petiole vertical and hidden; segment 2 of the abdomen 

 occupies somewhat over a third of the surface (its caudal margin 

 straight); all coxae metallic: otherwise the same; distal half of hind 

 tibiae white; funicle i nearly twice the length of the pedicel; ring-joints 

 increasing in size; clypeus striate:- one hind tibial spur short; parap- 

 sidal furrows three-fourths complete. 



$ . Femora more or less metallic, the abdomen with a large white 

 blotch at base (beneath and above), two nearly equal ring-joints, 

 funicle i a half longer than wide, a little shorter than 6, longer than 

 the short pedicel, 2 longest, about twice longer than wide. Funicle and 

 club darker. 



From several pairs associated with cowpea weevils at Col- 

 lege Station, Texas (Paddock). The genus belongs to the 

 Miscogasteridae and is closely allied with my Mctastcnoldes, 

 if not identical with it. 



Pseudomphale eudami new species. 



9. Differs from cuprcus in that the sculptured area on segment 2 

 of the abdomen is twice longer and mostly of fine punctures, the lateral 

 grooves of the scutellum meet medially. 



From nuiroacncns in that segment 2 is punctate, the abdominal 

 petiole is only weakly 'tricarinate. 



From apantelivorus in that the large area containing the spiracle is 

 not wholly glabrous but coarsely scaly at its margins, the abdomen is 

 shorter, the prepectus subglabrous (scaly reticulated, not punctured, 

 in the other) and the sculpture of abdomen 2 coarse (in the other 

 very fine and of minute punctures as in microgaster.) 



From cockerel! i (which is the same as apdntelivorus bui: differs in 

 having the coarse sculpture on the abdomen), in that its prepectus is 

 delicately scaly. 



Of the continental North American fauna, it runs to sardns Walker, 

 but abdomen 2 in that species bears scaly sculpture as it does in all 

 the varieties and allies of that species. The species producta Ash- 

 mead has segment 2 of the abdomen punctured back to the middle or 

 more. Funicle joints subequal, short, oval, a little shorter than the 

 pedicel and than club i. 



$ . Scape compressed, its distal half metallic above, the lour funi- 

 cle joints as in the female, more hairy, longer than the pedicel, shorter 

 than the club. 



Three pairs reared from the larva of Eitd'iwits protcus, St. 

 Vincent, British West Indies ( F. Watts). 



