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near the eggs. Sometimes the larvae retreat a short distance from 

 the egg mass burrowing through the pith. These larvae pupated 

 about a week later and the adults emerged on March 23. This 

 parasite is apparently undescribed. It is a chalcid and belongs to 

 the genus Cirrospilus. 



Cirrospilus ovisugosus sp. nov. 



Female — ^Length 1.84 mm. Head brown below with a faint 

 bluish-metallic reflection in front and above. Thorax seen from 

 above brilliant iridescent green, blue in certain lights. Prothorax 

 on the sides and the prosternum similar in colour. Abdomen 

 seen from above with metallic greenish reflections, becoming brown- 

 ish in front, the greater part of the first segment straw colour. 



Meso- and metapleura and coxa dull brown, almost black. 

 Remainder of the legs straw colour, nearly white. Under surface 

 of abdomen brownish, pale at the base, with slight metallic reflec- 

 tions towards the tip. 



Frg. 1.5. — Cirrosj^ilus ovisugosits. male. 



Antennae straw-coloured to brownish. Scape slender, pedicel 

 obconic, ring-joint minute. Funicle with three segments, the 

 first the longest, the second and third subequal. Club pointed, 

 indistinctly three-segmented. 



Male — Length 1.4 mm. (Fig. 15). Head yellow, eyes and 

 ocelli red. Thorax and legs similar to that of the female. 



Abdomen with the first and nearly all of the second segments 

 straw colour, the remainder dark brown with coppery metallic 

 reflections. 



Antennae pale straw colour. The scape greatly enlarged, 



