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Fig. 76. — Diospilus repertus, sp.nov. Type. 



Ovipositor not preserved, but it is distinct enough showing through the last 

 abdominal segment to indicate that the specimen is a female. Wings slightly 

 but quite evidently tinged with fuscous; stigma and veins fuscous, the former 

 ovate, rather broad, the radius issuing far beyond the middle. Marginal cell 



rather long and acutely pointed at 

 apex; first discoidal cell not 

 petiolate above; submedian cell 

 slightly longer than the median; 

 second section of the radius nearly 

 twice as long as the first and about 

 as long as the second transverse 

 cubitus; recurrent nervure inserted 

 considerably before the tip of the first cubital cell; inner and lower sides of 

 the second cubital cell about equal, each longer than the two other sides which 

 gives it the form of an oblique trapezoid; second discoidal cell closed at the 

 tip, the subdiscoidal vein inserted far below the middle of the discoidal vein. 



Type.— No. 2337-2338, M. C. Z, Florissant, Col. (No. 3411 and 

 7339 (reverse) S. H. Scudder Coll.). 



The proper place to assign to this and the following species still 

 remains in doubt and although they show some characters which might 

 suggest the Macrocentrinae or even the Rhogadinae, I believe that both 

 belong in the Helconinae. It is hardly to be hoped that specimens will 

 be found showing the occipital margin or other characters necessary 

 for a positive diagnosis, so I have ventured to describe them in the 

 present somewhat problematic position. 



A specimen later received from Professor Cockerell shows that the 

 ovipositor is quite long, at least nearly equalling the abdomen, and in 

 its habitus confirms my opinion that the species properly belongs here. 



Dyscoletes soporatus, sp. nov. (Fig. 77.) 



Female. Length 4.5 mm. Pale yellowish brown, the antennae and upper 

 part of the head darker. Head and thorax smooth and shining. Antennae 

 about as long as the body, slender and 

 tapering near the tip, with about 30 or 

 possibly a larger number of joints; those 

 near the base long, four or five times as 

 long as thick, but the apical ones very 

 much shortened; those near the extreme 

 tip rounded and almost moniliform. 

 Metanotum at least partially areolated. 



Abdomen ovate, broadly sessile, the second segment the longest, but the 

 others nearly as long, growing very gradually shorter to the tip. Ovi- 



Fig. 77. — Dyscoletes soporatus, sp.. 

 nov. Type. 



