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Chrysolampus lycti n. sp. 



Female: Length about 2.75 mm. Dark bronzy with the head green and 

 the abdomen so dark as to appear almost black; sides of face below level of 

 insertion of antennse obliquely rugose, above smooth, rear of head circularly 

 rugose with the posterior orbits smooth; parapsidal areas smooth, the outer 

 margin with about two rows of very coarse punctures, sculpture of the 

 median lobe of mesoscutum and of scutellum is in reality umbilicate punc- 

 tures but they are so coarse and crowded as to become reticulately rugose ; 

 scutellum before apex with a transverse carina and back of this one row of 

 longitudinal carinse; propodeum reticulately rugose, medially with a longi- 

 tudinal carina; femora brown, with a greenish luster, posterior ones more 

 green; knees, tibiae and tarsi reddish testaceous, the posterior tibia? brown 

 except bases and apices; abdomen smooth. 



Male: Length about 2.5 mm. Similar to the female but the face above 

 level of insertion of antennae is vertically rugulose. 



Type-locality: Top of the Alleghanies, Pocahontas County* 

 West Virginia. 



Host: Lyctus striatus. 



Type-specimen: Cat. No. 18307, U. S. N. M. 



Described from one female and seven males collected by Dr. 

 A. D. Hopkins and recorded under his West Virginia note No. 5781. 



This is the species recorded in Bulletin 32, West Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station by Dr. A. D. Hopkins as Perilampus 

 hyalinus Say, the determination being made by Doctor Ashmead. 



Chrysolampus parcipunctatus n. sp. 



Female: Length about 3 mm. Green, face below level of insertion of 

 antennas with fine oblique striae which at insertion of antennse curve ami 

 extend upward for a short distance but are much more indistinct than the 

 oblique portion; face with large scattered punctures; posterior surface of 

 head very finely circularly striate ; pronotum with scattered large punctures, 

 viewed from above the visible portion except at extreme base almost im- 

 punctured; middle lobe of mesoscutum basally transversely rugulose and 

 with scattered large punctures; parapsidal areas with a few punctures out- 

 wardly and a few along inner line; scutellum with a few large punctures 

 basally and along lateral margins; propodeum with medial longitudinal 

 carinae, very finely substransversely rugulose ; petiole about as long as pro- 

 podeum, with a median longitudinal carina, the sculpture about as coarse 

 as that on propodeum; coxa? and femora green; apices of femora, tibia- and 

 tarsi reddish testaceous, tibiae with a brownish spot medially. 



Type-locality: Los Angeles County, California. 

 Type-specimen: Cat. No. 18309, U. S. N. M. 

 Described from one specimen collected in April. 



