PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW GENERA AND SIX NEW 

 SPECIES OF PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA.* 

 BY A. B. GAHAN. 



The descriptions of one new genus and three new species of 

 Ichneumonoidea, one new genus and two new species of Chal- 

 cidoidea, and one new species of Proctotrypoidea are contained 

 in this paper. Types of all will be deposited in the United 

 States National Museum. 



ICHNEUMONOIDEA. 



BRACONID^. 

 MICROGASTERIN^. 

 Apanteles (Pseudapanteles) terminalis, new species. 



1900. Pseudapanteles terminalis Ashm. MS. in Smith's Ins. N. 

 J., 1899, p. 593. 



Male. Length 3.5 mm. Black, except legs and anal one-third of 

 abdomen, which are brownish testaceous. Whole head, except occi- 

 put, strongly rugoso-punctate and covered with short whitish pubes- 

 cence; mandibles blackish brown; eyes hairy; clypeal fovea deep and 

 rounded; labrum conspicuous; palpi pale yellowish; scape brownish 

 testaceous, the flagellum wholly black. Thorax rugoso-punctate with 

 whitish pubescence, the posterior half of the mesopleurae smooth, im- 

 punctate. Propodium wholly rugoso-punctate, with distinct median 

 and lateral carinae, the latero-posterior angles prominent, giving an 

 appearance of concavity to the posterior face of the propodium. An- 

 terior and median coxae brownish, posterior pair black, all trochanters, 

 femora, and tibiae brownish testaceous, darkest above, all tarsi more 

 or less dark brown, the two anterior pairs slightly testaceous. Wings 

 hyaline, the costal, postmarginal, radius, first intracubital, apex of 

 the median, and more or less of the discoidal veins and the stigma 

 brownish; re ainder of the venation paler. First dorsal tergite one 

 and one-half'"times as long as wide, the sides parallel or nearly, second 

 segment half the length of the first, the third still shorter. The first 

 three dorsal segments are strongly rugoso-punctate, the first two en- 

 tirely black and the third with a broad crescent-shaped black spot 

 basally, its lateral angles and apex like the following segments and 

 ventral surface testaceous. 



Female. Scape, pedicel, and three basal joints of the flagellum 

 brownish testaceous; mandibles reddish brown; all coxae as well as 

 femorae, tibiae, and tarsi pale testaceous; wing veins and stigma 

 brownish testaceous. Ovipositor exserted about the length of the 

 abdomen. Otherwise like the male. 



"Contribution from tho Entomological Laboratory of the Maryland Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 



