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TETRASTICHUS OVIPRANSUS Crosby and Leonard 



Figure 20, o 

 Tetrastichus ovipransus Crosby and Leonard, Ent. News, vol. 2S, p. 368, 1917. 



Shining black with an iridescent blue cast; antennae yellow or 

 brown, apices of femora, tibiae, and bases of tarsi light yellow or 

 white. 



Female. — Length, 0.9-1.0 mm. Antennae inserted at level of ventral 

 margins of compound eyes; apex of scape not quite reaching level 

 of anterior ocellus, second funicle segment slightly longer than first, 

 second and third equal in length, club as long as funicle ; malar space 

 two-thirds height of compound eye ; ocellocular line one-half as long 

 as postocellar. Mesopraescutum wider than long and bearing three 

 bristles at each lateral margin ; submarginal vein of f orewing with one 

 dorsal bristle, stigmal vein with an apical spur (fig. 20, c) ; outer 

 margin of wing with a fringe of long setae ; hindwing acute at apex. 

 Propodeum faintly shagreened, rather faint median and paraspiracu- 

 lar carinae present; mesal length of propodeum one-third that of 

 mesoscutellum ; propodeal spiracles almost round and separated from 

 anterior margin by a space equal to diameter of a spiracle ; gaster as 

 long as thorax. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Norfolk, Va. 



Types. — Cornell University Collection No. 76. 



Host. — Eggs of the sumac leaf beetle, Blepharida rhois (Forster). 



Distribution. — Virginia. 



TETRASTICHUS XANTHOMELAENAE (Rondani) 



Oomyzus gallerucae Rondani [not Fonscolombe], Bol. Comin. Agr. Parma, vol. 

 3, p. 137, 1S70 ; Bol. Soc. Ent. Ital., vol. 3, p. 53, 1872 ; vol. 9, p. 191, 1877. 



Oomyzus xanthomelaenae Rondani, Repertorio degli insetti parassiti e della 

 loro vittime, pt. 2, p. 16, 1872. 



Tetrastichus xanthomelaenae (Rondani) Marchal, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1905, 

 pp. 64, 81.— Howard, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 1, p. 281, 1908.— Masi. Bol. 

 Portici Scuola Super. Agr., Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr., vol. 3, p. 131, 1908. — 

 Smith, Rep. State Ent. New Jersey, 1908, p. 312; 1909, p. 411.— Britton, 

 Rep. State Ent. Connecticut, No. 8, p. 821, 1909.— Silvestri, Bol. Portici 

 Scuola Super. Agr., Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr., vol. 4, p. 271, 1910. — Howard 

 and Fiske, U. S. Bur. Ent. Bull. 91 (n. s.), p. 40, 1911.— Kurdjumov, Russ. 

 Ent. Obozr. (Rev. Russe Ent.), vol. 13, p. 253, 1913.— Howard, Journ. 

 Econ. Ent., vol. 10, p. 504, 1917.— Marchal and Foex, Ann. Epiphyt., vol. 

 6, p. 14, 1919.— Parker, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 93, p. 293, 1924.— Howard, 

 Rep. Chief U. S. Bur. Ent., 1926, p. 28.— Provasoli, Bol. Lab. Zool. Milano, 

 vol. 3, p. 53, 1932.— Hrisafi, Notat. Biol., vol. 2, p. 37, 1934.— Strong, Rep. 

 Chief U. S. Bur. Ent., 1935, p. 60.— Flanders, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 29, 

 p. 1024, 1936.— Berry, Journ. Agr. Res., vol. 57, p. 859, 1938. 



