<% Canadian (fetomotogisi 



VOL. XX. LONDON, JUNE, 1888. No. 6 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN 



CHALCIDID^E. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



Sub-family Entedonin^e. 

 Astichus Forster. 



(1) Astichus arizonensis n. sp. 



£ . Length .04 inch. Steel blue, finely scaly, with a slight metallic 

 tinge on thorax ; the knees and tarsi white. Antennae dark blue, the 

 funicle joints excised, pedunculated, with whorls of very long hairs. 

 Wings hyaline ; veins pale, the marginal vein very long. 



Hab. — Arizona. 



Holcopelte Forster. 



(2) Holcopelte missouriensis n. sp. 



% . Length .09 inch. Rather robust. Vertex of head, thorax and 

 metathorax cupreous ; face, thorax beneath and at sides, and the abdo- 

 men all blue. The scape of the antennas, excepting at tip, and all the 

 legs, excluding the blue coxae, waxy white ; flagellum blue-black, pilose. 

 The head is punctate, thorax and scutellum scaly, the latter longer than 

 wide with a median groove ; metathorax with two delicate parallel keels. 

 Abdomen petiolate, truncately rounded at apex, the second segment 

 occupying most of its surface. Wings hyaline ; veins pale brown. 



Hab. — Missouri. 



(3) Holcopelte Popenoei n. sp. 



°. . Length .09 inch. All of the head, the thorax, mesopleura and 

 coxse bright cupreous. Head and thorax punctate ; scutellum delicately 

 scaly with a median groove. The scape of antennae, excepting at tip, 

 and legs yellowish white ; flagellum cupreous. Abdomen as in H. 



