1910] Brues, North American Parasitic Hymen opt era IX. 75 



FAMILY BRACONID^E. 



Cceloides liopodis sp. nov. 



Length 2 mm. Piceous, the head black, and the abdomen varied 

 with yellowish brown ; legs, including the coxae, and basal part of an- 

 tennae pale testaceous. Head nearly twice as broad as thick, moder- 

 ately narrowed behind the eyes. Head behind, including* the occiput, 

 very distinctly margined. Ocelli in a small triangle, the lateral ones 

 being much farther from the eye than from each other. Vertex shining-, 

 -very distinctly margined. Ocelli in a small triangle, the lateral ones 

 the ocelli smooth and polished. Face smooth, with a very slight median 

 elevation along its median fifth, which is indistinctly striated. This 

 does not extend on to the short erescentric clypeus which is reddish 

 brown in color and separated at each lateral angle by a small foveate 

 depression. .Mandibles brownish yellow, with black tips. Antennae 

 filiform, with cylindrical joints, nearly one-fourth longer than the 

 body ; 22-jointed. inserted on a level with the middle of the eyes ; scape 

 simple, thickened ; flagellar joints gradually becoming shorter from the 

 first which is five times as long as thick ; sixth and following each 

 about three and one-half times as long- as thick. Collar brownish 

 yellow. Mesonotum as long the wide, shagreened ; parapsidal furrows 

 converging posteriorly, just before the scutellum with a series of five 

 longitudinal striations between them. Scutellum more finely rough- 

 ened, at the base with a large transverse depression bearing a few 

 elevated cross lines. Metathorax rounded behind, with a large petiolar 

 and one large lateral area on each side ; these areas nearly smooth ; 

 the pleurae rugulose ; tip of metathorax honey-yellow. Mesopleura 

 smooth, shining. Abdomen sessile ; first segment as long as broad at 

 the tip, its surface aciculated, medially on the basal half with a pair 

 of carina? convergent posteriorly, and on each side with a spiracular 

 carina. Second segment aciculate like the first, three times as wide 

 as long, its acienlations extending over the weak constriction to the 

 basal third of the third segment ; abdomen beyond smooth and hig'hly 

 polished. Abdomen above honey-yellow, piceous on the sides of the 

 third and following segments. Ovipositor half as long- as the abdomen. 

 Leg-s pale testaceous, with sparse white hairs; tibial spurs short. 

 Wings hyaline, with a weak venation ; stigma narrowly ovate ; first 

 discoidal cell with a very long- petiole above, submedian cell slightly 

 longer than the median; discoidal vein very oblique, joining the sub- 

 discoidal in a slight curve ; first transverse cubitus very indistinct 



