'jm\ TUB CANADIAN ENTOMOUKJIST. 



12 jointed ; scape not reaching the anleiior ocellus, colour of burnished 

 brass ; iK'dicel and flagellum dull bronze, almost black, club slightly 

 flattened and obliquely cut fffatapex. Proihorax narrowed in front, 

 punctate, with a fringe of long black hairs dorso-posteriorly, slightly 

 reneous ; mesoscutuni wneous, sculptured and with sparse white jiubescence, 

 parapsidal furrows broad and meeting slightly behind the middle of the 

 mesoscutum ; axillae separated, scutellum rounded behind, sculpture and 

 colour like that of mesoscutum ; mesopleurae and mesosternum finely 

 reliculately sculptured, steel blue, tinged with neneous, the roesepimeron 

 without pubescence ; metathorax dorsally nearly smooth, shining green with 

 white hairs laterally. Fore and hind coxie metallic and punctate, their 

 femora dark blue or black; all the trochanters, knees, and apices oftibite 

 yellow ; middle femora and all tibiae yellowish-brown ; posterior and 

 middle tarsi with the first two or three joints whitish, the others brown ; 

 front tarsi yellowish, the apex brown. Wings hyaline the veins brown. 

 Abdomen as long as the thorax, shining purplish above, more or less 

 leneous below, dorsal segments deeply incised ; ovipositor sheath extend- 

 ing beyond the anus, about one-third the length of the abdomen, black at 

 base and apex, with a broad orange-yellow annulus between. Length, 

 3.8 mm. 



Habitat. — Alabama. 



Described from four females reared from seed pods of CEtiothera^ 

 which were infested with Mompha brti'ivittUa. 



Jfomalotylus a/biiarsus, n. sp. 



Female : Length, 1.5 mm. Head longer than wide, granularly punc- 

 tate with numerous coarser punctures on the face ; eyes large, elongate 

 oval ; lateral ocelli touching the eye margins ; scrobes not developed ; 

 scape long and cylindrical ; pedicel nearly three times as long as thick » 

 twice as long as first funiclc joint ; funicle joints subequal and about as 

 long as thick ; club not quite as long as three preceding funicle joints, 

 obliquely acuminate. I'rothorax and mesoscutum scarcely punctate, the 

 latter shining and with numerous whitish hairs ; mesoscutellum and axillae 

 very finely and closely punctate and opacjue, the former large, with a few 

 scattered hairs ; metanotum smooth and shining. Legs long ; the middle 

 tibial spur longer than the first tarsal joint. Fore wings with the marginal 

 vein short ; stigmil and postmarginal long and cqu.il : a hairless streak 

 running from the base of stigmal vein obli(]uely backward and inward. 



