OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVI, 1914 109 



Two HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIXTH MEETING, APRIL 2, 1914. 

 The following program was presented: 



Notes on Some jNIicrolepidoptera on Forest Trees with Descriptions of 



New Species . .August Busck 1 



Descriptions of two Parasitic Hymenoptera. . . . .S. A. Rohwer 2 



Aquatic Insect Life at Castle Hot Springs, Arizona E. A. Schwarz 1 



Notes on some Beetle Larvae from Arizona .... Dr. Adam Bciving 1 



Concerning some Aphelininse . L. O. Howard 3 



Descriptions of New Chalcid-flies A. A. Girault 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CHALCID-FLIES. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT. 

 GENUS ANAPHOIDEA Girault. 



Anaphoidea luna new species. 



Female: Length, 0.50 mm. Black, the scape, pedicel and proximal three 

 tarsal joints dusk} r lemon yellow, the trochanters and knees pallid; 'wings 

 obscurely, slightly fumated. subhyaline; cephalic tibiae lighter. 



Differs from the other European species, diana Girault, in being black 

 instead of brown, in having the second funicle joint more than twice the 

 length of the first and only slightly shorter than the third. In regard to the 

 three North American species, it is most similar to pullicrura with which it 

 may be confused; however, upon comparison of specimens, pullicrura is 

 seen to differ in that the fore wings are more deeply infuscated and not 

 quite so broad, their caudal margin more concavely curved and the scape 

 and pedicel are darker. Also in luna the midlongitudinal line of discal 

 cilia is longer and may include as many as eleven cilia. Otherwise I can- 

 not distinguish between the two. It is distinct from other North American 

 species. Of the Australian species (harveyi, galtoni, linmri) it is distinct 

 from all excepting linnan, which it resembles closely. However, linncci dif- 

 fers in that the proximal tarsal joints are longer, the legs lighter, the fore 

 wings more deeply infuscated, the scape and pedicel dark. The Australian 

 linnoci is thus allied with the North American pullicrura (from which it 

 differs mostly in bearing longer proximal tarsal joints) and this European 

 species, the three distinguishable only on very slight differences ami yet 

 undoubtedly distinct species. 



From three specimens, two-third-inch objective, 1-inch optic, 

 Bausch & Lomb. 



1 Will be published later. 



2 See page 141. 



8 Published in these Proceedings Vol. XVI, No. L'. 



