ABT. 24. XEW REARED PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA GAHAN. 7 



shagieGned ; hind femora also weakly shagreened with six to ten 

 (seven in the type) strong teeth ventrally; abdomen as long as 

 thorax; ovipositor exerted, approximately the length of the whole 

 insect. Color of head and thorax dark green with only a faint 

 bronzy tinge; antennal club black; remainder of antenna, fore tibiae 

 and tarsi, median legs, except coxae, hind trochanters, tibiae, and 

 tarsi, and the tegulae reddish testaceous; front coxae and femora, 

 middle coxae, and hind coxae and femora more or less brownish 

 black; the outer surface of hind coxae and femora strongly metallic 

 green ; teeth on femora black ; abdomen mostly blackish with strong 

 metallic luster in some lights; ovipositor reddish, its sheaths black; 

 wings hyaline, venation brownish testaceous. 



The color of the legs is quite variable, one paratype having the 

 front and median pairs, except the front coxae, entirely testaceous 

 at base, and the fore and median femora vary from testaceous to 

 mostly brownish black. 



Male.— 'Length 1.9 mm. Antennal club not greatly swollen, only 

 slightly thicker than the cylindriform funicle, and not longer than 

 three apical joints of funicle combined, 3-jointed but the sutures 

 very indistinct; abdomen not nearly as long as thorax; hind basitar- 

 sus swollen and as long as the other joints combined; hind femora 

 with four to five strong ventral teeth ; otherwise agrees with descrip- 

 tion of the female except that the antennal club, fore and middle 

 legs entirely, and the hind femora, as well as the apex and ventral 

 side of the hind coxae are testaceous, and the abdomen brownish 

 testaceous. 



2'i/pe locality. — Brownsville, Texas. 



Type.~C^t. No. 24985, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Eggs of Mantis, species. 



Nine females and three males reared by E. A. Vickery of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, from the egg mass of an undetermined 

 mantid. Antenna from allotype male and one from a paratype 

 female mounted in balsam. Specimens on card points. 



Family EURYTOMIDAE. 

 Genus HARMOLITA. 



Phillips and Emery ^ have restricted this genus (formerly known 

 as Isosonia) to species having a noncarinate occiput and without 

 umbilicate punctures on the head and thorax. 



Since the publication of Phillips and Emery's paper at least two 

 species have come under the present writer's observation which, 

 while apparently agreeing closely in all other essential characters 



» Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 55, 1919, p. 435. 



