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A HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITE OF THE GRAPE-BERRY 

 MOTH, EUDEMIS BORTANA, SCHIF. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, M.A., D. SC. 



Tribe V. — Campoplegini. 



Genus Thyinaris, Forster. 

 Thymaris Slinger land ana (Fig. 9), new species — 9 • Length, 4.5 mm.; 

 ovipositor about one-third the length of the abdomen. Black, subopaque, 

 the head and thorax very finely, microscopically punctate, with a sparse, 

 glittering, white pubescence, which is denser or more distinct on the lower 

 part of the face, the cheeks, the pleura and the metanotum ; ocelli pale or 

 opalescent ; palpi whitish ; scape and pedicel of antennae, the tegulte, the 

 front and middle coxte and trochanters, the hind trochanters except at base 

 of first joint, and all tarsi, except as hereafter noted, honey-yellow, the 

 hind coxte, base of hind trochanters, a spot at base of hind tibiae 



Fig. 



outwardly and at apex, and the apices of hind tarsal joints i, 2 and 3 and 

 joints 4 and 5 entirely, black ; rest of legs pale ferruginous ; wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, the stigma and veins light brown ; metathorax 



