6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM. vor.. 61. 



head and thorax ; first tergite slender, about one and one-half times 

 as broad at apex as at base, opaquely sculptured with a few indis- 

 tinct longitudinal rugae; second tergite sculptured like the first, 

 those beyond the second more weakly sculptured; abdominal pubes- 

 cence rather dense. General color dark reddish brown; propodeum 

 and abdominal tergites beyond the third black or blackish; anten- 

 nae, except four or five basal joints, dark brown ; base of antennae, 

 legs, including all coxae, and three basal segments of abdomen paler 

 than the thorax, reddish testaceous; wings very slightly infuscated, 

 stigma dark brown, with a pale spot at the inner angle, veins pale 

 bi'ownish. 



Type locality. — Rye, New York. 



Type.—Cdit. No. 24984, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females and three males received from Mr. 

 Henry Bird and reared by him from the cocoons of Microplitis 

 gortynae Riley parasitizing Papaipema nehrls Guenee. Also three 

 female specimens from the same collector reared September 1, 1917, 

 as secondary parasites of Papaipema viargi/nidens Guenee. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family CALLIMOMIDAE. 



PODAGRION CRASSICLAVA, new species. 



Plate 1, figs. 4 and 5. 



This species agrees with the generic description of Pachytomoidella 

 Girault except that the female club is not solid but more or less dis- 

 tinctly 3-jointed. Differs from Podagrion inantis Ashmead in hav- 

 ing the antennal club in the female greatly swollen, as long or nearly 

 as the entire funicle, the joints of the funicle short, the first and 

 second subquadrate, third very slightly transverse, those beyond the 

 third distinctly transverse and increasing in thickness toward the 

 club; scutellum and mesoscutum distinctly less deeply sculptured 

 than in mantis. The male differs from the male of mantis in hav- 

 ing all of the funicle joints subequal and subquadrate, the mesos 

 cutum and scutellum less strongly sculptured, the antennae and the 

 hind femora entirely pale testaceous, and the hind coxae except the 

 basal two-thirds above, pale testaceous. 



Female. — Length 1.9 mm. Antennal club three- jointed, the su- 

 tures shallow and not very distinct; antennal ring-joint about half 

 as long as broad; pedicel longer than ring-joint and joint one of 

 funicle combined; head strongly sculptured; pronotum and meso- 

 scutum a little less strongly sculptured than head; mesoscutellum 

 similarly, but much more shallowly sculptured, its surface distinctly 

 shining; hind coxae smooth, except outer face, which is distinctly 



