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ber of antennal joints, the entirely yellow face, and the partial 

 coalescence of the ocellar and occipital spots. 



Described from 3 females and 2 males (t'he type female, -male, 

 and paratypes a, b, and c) labeled Quaintance No. 5155, Siloam 

 Springs, Ark., 9.26.08, S. W. Foster, collector, parasite of Canar- 

 sia hammondi; 2 females (paratype d and 1 other) labeled 440 01 , 

 issued Aug. 20, '90, Par. on Pempelia hammondi from Miss 

 Murtfeldt; 2 females (paratype e and 1 other) from Champaign, 

 111. ; 3 males (paratypes / and g and 1 other) labeled Quaint- 

 ance No. 5083, Siloam Springs, Ark., 6.26.08, S. W. Foster, par. 

 of Enarmonia prunivora; 5 females and 2 males (paratypes h-l 

 and 2 others) labeled Parasite of Desmia funeralis, Vienna, Va., 

 Sept. 15, Quaintance No. 10622, J. F. Strauss, collector; 4 fe- 

 males (including paratypes m and n) Miclvale, Pa., Sept. 1, 

 1913, Quaintance No. 6126, F. L. Simanton, Coll., parasite of 

 Laetilia coccidivora. 



This- species is extremely variable in color, although the color 

 within a series from an individual host is quite constant, vary- 

 ing, as a rule, only in minor details. The paratypes show all 

 grades of variation, e being much paler and k much darker than 

 the type female. In e the ocellar and occipital spots are en- 

 tirely separated; mesoscutum entirely yellowish-testaceous except 

 a narrow median line anteriorly and a suffused spot on each 

 hind angle; scutellum pale throughout; propodeum somewhat 

 lighter, especially laterally, where it is testaceous; legs pale, 

 hind coxae yellowish; stigmal spot occupying nearly half of the 

 stigma; first tergite testaceous except triangle basally, second 

 tergite yellow throughout; on the remaining tergites the light 

 markings are somewhat more extensive and paler. Paratype i 

 is smaller and much darker than the type, the thoracic markings 

 practically obsolete and the color pattern of the abdomen very 

 obscure, face with a median dark line which broadens out into 

 a spot on the clypeus. In paratype n the ocellar and occipital 

 spots are broadly joined. 



Habrobracon platynotae n.sp. 



Female: Length 3 mm. Head black with the face fuscous, the orbital 

 ring, gense, and a spot below each antenna yellowish; orbital ring broadly 

 interrupted behind the eye with a small pale spot immediately behind the 

 eye and not extending mesad behind the ocelli; mandibles colored like the 

 face with black tips; antennae black, long, 24-jointed, uniform in thickness, 

 the basal flagellar joints about l times as long as thick. 



Thorax black, legs testaceous except that the apical joint of the front 

 tarsi, the rniddle and hind tibiee and tarsi, and the coxae basally are in- 

 fuscated; wings dusky with the apical third hyaline, the veins fuscous. 



Abdomen testaceous somewhat infuscated especially beyond the second 



