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58. APANTELES COCKERELLI. new species. 



Female. — Length, 3 mm. Head, rostriform; face, closely min- 

 utely punctate and opaque; antennae about as long as the body; 

 mesoscutum closely finely punctate; scutellum with the disk smooth 

 medially, sparsely minutely punctate at the sides, and the lateral 

 face with the posterior polished area large, but rounded in front, 

 and not reaching two-thirds of the distance to the base of the disk ; 

 mesopleura wholly polished, shining; propodeum whollj^ impunc- 

 tate, exceedingly highly polished; forewing with the radius much 

 longer than the transverse cubitus; nervellus curving strongly be- 

 hind toward base of wing; posterior coxae smooth and shining; 

 inner spur of posterior tibiae slightly longer than the outer, but not 

 half the length of the metatarsus; abdomen at least as long as the 

 thorax; first tergite narrower at apex than at base, entirely smooth 

 and highly polished; second tergite short and transverse, as broad 

 at base as first tergite is broad at apex, and much broader at apex 

 than at base, defined laterally by sharp oblique grooves, and more 

 than three times as broad at apex as long down the middle, smooth 

 and shining; membranous margins along the apical third of the 

 first tergite and the entire length of the second broad; abdomen 

 beyond the second tergite smooth and slightly opaque; ovipositor 

 sheaths at least as long as the abdomen, slender; hypopygium pro- 

 jecting somewhat beyond the apex of the abdomen. Black; antennae 

 and tegulae black; wings whitish-hyaline, with the stigma and the 

 netacarpus brown, the veins colorless; legs mostly black except the 

 apex of the fore femora, the entire fore tibiae and the basal half 

 of the middle and hind tibiae, which are pale ; abdomen, including 

 the membranous margins along the two basal tergites, and the en- 

 tire venter, black. 



Type locality. — New Mexico. 



Tyfe.—Q^t. No. 22523, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one specimen collected by T. D. A. Cockerell, June 

 24, 1896. 



59. APANTELES DAKOTAE, new species. 



Very similar to cochcrelli., but differs in the punctate propodeum 

 and two basal abdominal tergites, and in the ovipositor sheaths being 

 broader and only about two-thirds the length of the abdomen. 



Fe77iale. — Length, 3.5 mm. Head rostriform; malar space long; 

 face rather shagreened, shining; mesoscutum very minutel}^ closely 

 punctate, rather shining ; scutellum with the disk uniformly minutely 

 punctate, and the lateral face with the posterior polished area large 

 but rounded anteriorly and not extending nearly to the base of the 

 disk; propodeum weakly punctate, without an areola or any carinae; 

 forewing with the stigma large, the metacarpus decidedly longer 



