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thick. There is a tooth beneath anterior femora, near the base ; while 

 the anterior tibiae are peculiarly twisted, the twisted part ending in a 

 spine, besides the apical tibial spine. Otherwise as in the female. 

 Described from one male and one female specimen. 



AN INTERESTING NEW CHALCID FROM CANADA. 



BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



Among a small collection of parasitic Hymenoptera sent me by Mr. 

 James Fletcher, the Dominion Entomologist, for names, I found an inter- 

 esting Chalcid belonging to that remarkable Pteromalid genus Caratomus 

 Dalman, no species of which has as yet been described as occurring in 

 our fauna ; and as the present species seems to be distinct from the Euro- 

 pean species, Caratomus megacephalus Dalm., I believe it to be unde- 

 scribed, and submit herewith the following description : 



Caratomus hucophthalmus, n. sp. 



Male. Length .10 inch. Robust, blue-black, conrluently, granulately 

 punctate. The head is very large, its breadth being nearly twice the 

 width of the thorax when measured from eye to eye ; its front is deeply, 

 broadly emarginated, and there is a deep emargination or broad groove 

 extending from the eye obliquely towards the mouth, the upper edge of 

 which forms an acute tubercle, while the lower edge forms an acute ridge 

 The eyes are satiny white, finely pubescent. The antennas are 13-jointed, 

 clavate ; scape, the long pedicel, and first and second funiclar joints 

 brownish-yellow, the following joints brown. The legs are red, excepting 

 the trochanters, extreme tips of femora and tibise and the anterior tibiae, 

 which are wholly brownish-yellow. The abdomen is oval, with a dull 

 bronzy tinge ; petiole short, yellow. The wings are hyaline with a large 

 fuscous blotch across the middle ; veins thick, rufo-piceous ; the submar- 

 ginal vein is distant from costal edge and nearly three times as long as the 

 marginal vein ; the stigmal vein is about as long as the marginal, curved ; 

 while the post-marginal is distinctly longer than the stigmal vein. 



Described from one male specimen taken on a window at Ottawa, in 

 1885, by Mr. James Fletcher. 



