NO. 2349. REVISION OF NEARCTIC APANTELES^MUESEBECK. 505 



9. APANTELES LAEVICOXIS, new species. 



Fe77iale.— Length, 2.7 inm. Face broader than long, punctate^ 

 opaque; a short, very narrow, median longitudinal groove on face 

 just below the insertion of the antennae; vertex, temples, and cheeks 

 closely punctate and dull ; mesoscutum very closely, evenly punctate 

 and opaque ; scutellum with the disk large, slightly longer than 

 broad at base, sparsely punctate and strongly shining ; the polished 

 area on the lateral face of scutellum large, reaching almost to the 

 base of the disk; mesopleura punctate anteriorly, polished poste- 

 riorly, without a foveolate groove; propodeum coarsely punctate and 

 dull on anterior half, and with a distinctly margined, rather circular^ 

 shining areola medially; the apical lateral areas strongly shining, 

 the apical angles prominent; forewing with the radius apparently 

 equal in length to the transverse cubitus, and uniting with the latter 

 in an even curve without an angle at the point of union; posterior 

 wing with the nervellus straight, not curving at all toward the base 

 of wing, as in related species; posterior coxae smooth and polished, 

 except for an elongate flattened area on the outer face above, which 

 is punctate ; inner spur of posterior tibiae much longer than the outer, 

 and about as long as half the metatarsus ; abdomen long ; first tergite 

 narrower at apex than at base, almost twice as long as broad at 

 apex, smooth and polished, with a suggestion of a median longitu- 

 dinal depression near the apex ; second tergite transverse, very short, 

 at least five times as broad at apex as long down the middle, apex 

 straight, the entire tergite perfectly smooth and polished; the re- 

 mainder of the abdomen smooth and polished; ovipositor sheaths 

 slightly longer than the abdomen, the ovipositor curved at apex. 

 Black; tegulae and wing-bases testaceous; wings hyaline, stigma 

 brown, except for a pale spot at base, veins colorless; legs mostly 

 black, including all coxae and trochanters, basal half of middle 

 femora, and the posterior femora entirely; apical half of posterior 

 tibiae and posterior tarsi dusky, ovipositor sheaths black. 



Type locality. — Utica, Mississippi. 



Type.— Cat No. 22514, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one specimen in the collection of the National 

 Museum; Ashmead's manuscript name has been used. 



10. APANTELES DISPUTABILIS (Ashmead). 



Vrogastcr dlsputaMUs Askimkad, Tvaii.^. Eut. Soc. London, 1000, pt. 2, p. 286. 



Habitat. — St. Vincent; Grenada; Kansas; Texas. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Besides two cotypes of this species, the National collection con- 

 tains a single specimen from Victoria, Texas, collected by W. E. 

 Hinds, and another from Lawrence, Kansas, taken by Hugo Kalil. 



