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Washington (J. A. Hyslop, reared from Phisia, species, in the Bureau 

 of Entomology, under Webster Nos. 4595 and 5903) ; Mount Hood, 

 Oregon; Colorado (C. F. Baker); Los Angeles, California; Santa 

 Cruz IMountains, California; Champaign, Illinois; Boston, Massachu- 

 setts; Vancouver, British Columbia (reared from Hadena frocincta 

 Grote by J. M. Langston). The collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History has one specimen from S. W. Harbor, Maine; Doctor 

 Brues's collection contains specimens from Wathena, Kansas (W. M. 

 Mann) ; Pullman, Washington (A. L. Melander) ; Florissant, Colo- 

 rado (S. A. Rohwer) ; Lake McDonald, Glacier Park, Montana (A. L. 

 Melander) ; and in the Cornell University Collection there is ma- 

 terial from Ithaca, Xew York; Waubamic, Ontario (H. S. Parish) ; 

 Truro, Nova Scotia; Carbonate and Dovs^nie Creek, British Colum- 

 bia, Canada (J. C. Bradley). 



11. MICROPLITIS AUTOGRAPHAE. new .pedes. 



Resembles alaskensis in size and color and general appearance, but 

 differs from that species in the unicolorous stigma, in the perfectly 

 smooth and polished second abdominal tergite, and in the relatively 

 shorter and broader abdomen. The cocoons of the two species also 

 are very similar, but they differ in color, those of alaskensis being 

 pale green, while those of the present species are light brown. 



Female. — Length, 3.5 mm. Head transverse ; face closely coarsely 

 punctate and dull ; clypeus more feebly punctured, somewhat shining ; 

 vertex temples and cheeks punctate and dull, although less so than 

 the face; mesoscutum and scutellum strongly shining, indistinctly 

 punctate; the parapsidal furrows, which are well-marked, and the 

 broad depression posteriorly on the mesoscutum, irregularly rough- 

 ened but shining ; a distinct median carina on the mesoscutum poste- 

 riorly; mesopleurae punctate and dull anteriorly and below, smooth 

 and polished above, and provided with a longitudinal slightly curved 

 crenate furrow ; propodeum very coarsely reticulated, with a promi- 

 nent median longitudinal carina; the stigma large; the radius no 

 longer than the first transverse cubitus, the second cubital cell being 

 large; legs slender, spurs of posterior tibiae about equal in length, 

 distinctly less than half as long as the metatarsus ; abdomen narrow 

 at base, broad posteriorly; the first dorsal abdominal plate broaden- 

 ing slightly behind, a little more than one and one-half times as long 

 as broad at apex, finely rugulose, with a longitudinal groove medially 

 on the basal two-thirds; remainder of the dorsum of the abdomen 

 highly polished ; ovipositor very slightly exserted ; hypopygium not 

 attaining the apex of the abdomen. Black; clypeus, labrum, and 

 basal segment of labial palpi, black; antennae entirely and the tegulae 

 and wing-bases black; wings slightly fuliginous, the veins and entire 

 stigma dark brown; all coxae and basal segment of all trochanters 

 black; remainder of the legs testaceous, except the tarsi, which are 



