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nearly. Propodeum glabrous, with a long, narrow median carina 

 and a longer than wide area on each side of it which is rugnlose. 

 Tegulae concolorous. Scape subclavate. Pedicel twice longer than 

 wide at apex. Funicle joints 3-6 subequal, each little wider than 

 long, 1 a third longer than wide, 2 intermediate. Club ovate, equal 

 to funicles 4-6. Mandibles reddish browii at apex, the acute second 

 tooth twice the size of the first. Head (cephalic aspect), a little 

 longer than wide, the scrobes forming a semicircle. Frons moderate. 

 Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal, the latter a little 

 over half the length of the marginal. Scutellum obtuse at apex. 



One female collected in the woods at Glenndale, Maryland, July 16, 

 1916. 



Type.— C&i. No. 20854, U.S.N.M., the female on a tag, the head 

 and a fore wing on a slide. 



Differs from the genotype in having the axillae united, also the 

 scrobes, while the teeth of the mandibles are much unequal. 



Family CHALCIDIDAE 



SPILOCHALCIS ALBIFRONS (Walsh). 



There is a male specimen in the United States National Museum 

 placed beside the types (two males) and labeled as this species 

 (reared from Ajyanteles militaris, Nashville, Tennessee) but which 

 has the face below the antennae and the first two pairs of femora 

 entirely yellow; there is a distinct dot on the vertex near the lateral 

 ocellus; the upper occipital margin of the eye is yellow; the prouotum 

 bears on its cephalic margin three dots on each side of the meson; 

 smaller in succession laterad; the spot on the scutum and scutellum 

 is distinct while the abdomen is variegated. This is a well-marked 

 variety. 



SPILOCHALCIS TORVINA (Cresson) ANCYLAE, new variety. 



Female. — Runs in Cresson's analysis to torvina torvina but has no 

 head or thoracic markmgs except the following: Mandibles, a small 

 round spot on each side near (not at) the clypeus, a dot between the 

 antennae, a dot against the eye at middle of face, occipital margin 

 of eye above, a minute transverse dot between eye and lateral ocellus, 

 a dot on eacti side of meson of punctures (well separated) and one 

 at cephal-laterad corner of pronotum, spot (oval) near parapsidal 

 furrows on scutum near cephal-laterad corner, a dot on the parspside 

 against the furrow, tibiae middle and caudal end; a small spot on 

 lateral margin of scutellum at middle ; abdomen as originally described 

 (the four marks are wider than long, the distal two very much wider 

 than long) . The caudal femora differ.in bearing a dot on dorsal margin 

 at middle (showing more distinctly outwardly) and a larger than wide 

 spot near apex beneath; outwardly a dot a little above the apex, 

 one centrally at distal two thirds and one below further proximad. 



