THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 97 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SEED CHALCID FROM 



SPRUCE 



BY S. A. ROHWER, BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The following new species has been reared from the seeds of 

 Engelmann spruce {Picea engelnianni) , from the Sitka spruce 

 (Picea silchensis), and from Colorado blue spruce (Picea parryana). 

 It has b^en reared from seeds collected in Beulah and Glenwood 

 Springs, Colorado; while the types come from Crescent City, 

 California. The material has all been reared by Mr. J. M. Miller. 



Megastigmus piceae, new species. 

 In Marcovitch's correction to Crosby's table (Can. Ent., 1914, 

 Vol. XLVI, p. 438) the female runs to laricis Marcovitch, but may 

 be separated from that species as follows: 



Propodeum with a median carina; face all yellow and without 

 many long black hairs; cheeks yellow; fiagellum yellow beneath; 



femora pale laricis Marcovitch. 



Propodeum with two short carin* basally; face with median 

 brownish spot and with many long blackish hairs; cheeks black; 



flagellum black; femora' black tasally picecB Rohwer. 



The male differs from the descriptions of lasiocarpcB and laricis 

 -in a number of characters. 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm.; length of the ovipositor 2 mm. 

 Head finely rugulose with the lines radiating from the ocelli and 



from the mouth parts; postocellar line 

 one-fifth longer than the ocellocular 

 line; intraocellar line subequal with the 

 ocelloccipital line; pronotum and meso- 

 notum transversely aciculate, on the 

 prescutum the aciculations are much 

 finer anteriorly, and they are more 



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pronounced posteriorly; axill?e granular 



Fig. n.—Megasiigmus picece, posteriorly; seutellum reticulate, anter- 

 stigmatai club. -^^.j^ ^j^j^ ^ tendency towards striation ; 



stigmatal club as in Figure la. Black; palpi, mandibles, face below 

 a line slightly above the bases of the antennse, scape and pedicel 

 beneath, yellow; face medianly with longish, subcircular, brownish 

 spot; legs yellow, with the following black or brownish markings: 



March, 1915 



