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separated from anterior margin by a space one-half as great as length 

 of a spiracle; gaster equal to or slightly longer than thorax; entire 

 dorsum of gaster shagreened. 



Male. — Length, 1.1 mm. Darkened anterior carina of scape two- 

 thirds as long as scape; first funicle segment shorter than second; 

 funicle segments enlarged near bases and bearing setae much longer 

 than the segments themselves; gaster as long as thorax. 



Type locality.— Glenn Dale, Md. 



Type— -U.S.N '.M. No. 20444. (Specimen in poor condition.) 



Host—Bl&ck blister leaf gall of Asteromyia carbonifera (Felt) on 

 goldenrod; some specimens also were said to have been reared from 

 the goldenrod gall moth, G nor imo schema gallaesolidaginis (Biley), 

 but this is probably an error. 



Distribution.— District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mary- 

 land, Virginia. 



TETRASTICHUS HAGENOWII (Ratzeburg) 



Entedon hagenowii Ratzebttrg, Die Ichneumonen der Forstinsecten . . ., vol. 3, 



p. 211, 1852. 

 Geniocerus hagenotcii (Ratzeburg) Kukdjumov, Russ. Ent. Obozr. (Rev. Russe 



Ent.) vol. 13, p. 249, 1913.— Crawford, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 48, p. 584, 



1915. 

 Blattotetrastichus hagenoivi (Ratzeburg) Girault, Ent. News, vol. 28, p. 257, 



1917. 

 Tetrastichus hagenoivi (Ratzeburg) Ashmead, Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 1, p. 329, 



1901.— Fuixaway, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc., vol. 2, p. 287, 1913.— Gahan, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 48, p. 168, 1914. — Severin and Severin, Journ. Eeon. Ent., 



vol. 8, p. 329. 1915.— Marlatt, U. S. Dept. Agr. Farmers' Bull. 65S, p. 11, 1915.— 



M.\sr, Nov. Zool., vol. 24, p. 213, 1917.— Sein, Puerto Rico Dept. Agr. and 



Comm. Circ. 64, p. 5, 1923. — Timberlake, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, vol. 5, p. 442, 



1924.— Williams, Handbook of insects, p. 256, 1931. 

 Tetrastich odes floridanus Ashmead, Proc. Anier. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, p. 203, 1887. 

 Tetrastichoidcs brovmi Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 113, 1905. 



(New synonymy.) 



Body black, with faint iridescent green reflections; areas of head 

 around mouthparts, scape and pedicel, tegulae, legs (except procoxae), 

 and sometimes base of gaster white or yellow ; entire supraclypeal area 

 of head may be yellow. 



Female. — Length, 1.2-2.0 mm. Antennae inserted at level of ven- 

 tral margins of compound eyes ; apex of scape reaching level of an- 

 terior ocellus, first funicle segment long, one-third longer than second 

 segment, third slightly shorter than second, funicle segments densely 

 covered with short bristles, club considerably broader than funicle 

 segments and short, only one-fourth longer than second funicle seg- 

 ment ; malar space one-half height of compound eye ; postocellar line 

 twice as long as ocellocular. Entire surface of mesopraescutum cov- 



