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C. F. Baker." There are two additional specimens in the National 

 Collection bearing the label, " Victoria, Tex., Hunter No. 2391, J. D. 

 Mitchell, Collector." I have also seen seven specimens in the Cornell 

 University Collection: three from Freeville, New York; one from 

 Ithaca, New York ; one from Truro, Nova Scotia, collected by Dr. K. 

 Matheson; and two from Mount Whiteface, New York, 2,000-4,000 

 feet, collected August 22-24, 1916. 



3. MICROGASTER GARMANI (Ashmead). 



Protomicroplitis genvani Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1000, p. 132 

 (without specific description). 



A very distinct species, easily placed by the characters given in the 

 foregoing key. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Face and clypeus confluently punctate, 

 shining, a prominent polished median carina extending half way from 

 antennal fossae to the clypeus ; vertex very shallowly minutely punc- 

 tate and shining; the temples, and more particularly the cheeks, 

 coarsely punctate ; antennae a little longer than the body ; mesoscutum 

 and scutellum covered with closely placed but distinct, deep punc- 

 tures, shining; mesopleurae coarsely punctate except for a smooth 

 and highly polished subquadrate area on the upper middle region; 

 below and just behind the middle there is a shallow, noncrenulate 

 depression; propodeum coarsely rugose, with a prominent median 

 longitudinal carina ; stigma moderate, about as long as the metacar- 

 pus ; radius arising a little beyond middle of stigma, curved and di- 

 rected outward, nearly twice as long as the first intercubitus ; poste- 

 rior coxae large, more than half as long as the thorax, entirely coarsely 

 punctate; inner spur of middle tibiae as long as middle metatarsus; 

 inner spur of hind tibiae two-thirds as long as hind metatarsus; 

 abdomen slender, compressed, nearly as long as thorax; first dorsal 

 abdominal plate long and slender, more than three times as long 

 as broad, the sides nearly parallel, base and apex of equal breadth ; a 

 deep median longitudinal channel extending nearly to the apex of 

 the first plate, the basal half of the plate polished, the apical half 

 weakly roughened and shining ; second dorsal abdominal plate smooth 

 and polished, medially a little shorter than the third tergite, strongly 

 angularly emarginate anteriorly, the sides extending forward acutely 

 more than one-third the length of the basal plate; remainder of the 

 abdomen smooth and shining; ovipositor sheaths slender, less than 

 half as long as the abdomen. Black; labrum and mandibles except 

 at base and apex, reddish-testaceous; palpi pale yellow; antennae 

 brownish-black ; tegulae testaceous; wing-bases brown; wings hyaline, 

 subhyaline at apex; veins and stigma brown; all coxae black; re- 

 mainder of fore and middle legs testaceous, except the trochantera 

 and the femora basally, which are brownish; posterior trochanters 



