ART. 24. NEW REARED PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA GAHAN. 11 



2. AH coxae metallic; forewing.with a fuscous cloud on disk; anteiiiial llagellum 



blackish or very dark brown modestus, new species. 



All coxae for the most part testaceous, the posterior pair more or less 

 tinged with metallic outwardly ; forewing without a fuscous cloud ; 

 flagellum dark reddish testaceous wehsteri Ashmead. 



3. Funicle joints subequal and all distinctly longer than broad ; flagellum uni- 



formly fuscous; middle tibiae only slightly clavate, and weakly com- 

 pressed at apex modestus, new species. 



Third and fifth funicle joints subquadrate, narrower and much shorter than 

 the other funicle joints; the funicle joints alternating white and dark 

 brown ; middle tibiae strongly compressed and expanded between middle 

 and apex websteri Ashmead. 



POLYSCELIS MODESTUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.2 mm. Head and thorax closely and strongly 

 punctate; abdomen polished. Head transverse, a little more than 

 three times as broad as thick antero-posteriorly ; viewed from in 

 front, slightly broader than long, not or but slightly narrowed below, 

 clypeal area with converging striae ; malar space equal to about half 

 the eye-height ; eyes ovate, without pubescence ; ocellocular and post- 

 ocellar lines approximately equal; occiput concave, transversely 

 reticulate, without any indication of a marginal carina; antennae 

 rather slender, subclavate, with two ring joints, a six-jointed funicle, 

 and a three-jointed club ; first funicle joint and ring joints combined 

 distinctly longer than the pedicel; all funicle joints a little longer 

 than broad, the last nearly quadrate; club slightly longer than the 

 two preceding funicle joints combined; pronotum sculptured like 

 the occiput, but with the narrow posterior margin of the strongly 

 transverse dorsal portion smooth; mesoscutum with the parapsidal 

 grooves deeply impressed anteriorly, but fading out entirely pos- 

 teriorly ; sculpture of scutellum and axillae similar to that of meso- 

 scutum, but more dense, the punctures somewhat smaller; propodeum 

 with a large subglobose neck, which is set off from the rest of the 

 propodeum by a rather deep transverse groove or constriction; 

 lateral folds of propodeum strongly developed, median longitudinal 

 carina weak, the area between the folds and including the neck 

 coarsely punctate, laterad of the folds weakly sculptured and densely 

 hairy; anterior wings reaching beyond the apex of abdomen; post- 

 marginal vein distinctly longer than the stigma and subequal to or 

 very slightly shorter than the marginal; hind coxae conspicuously 

 covered with hairs dorsally; abdomen pointed ovate, about as long- 

 as thorax, weakly convex dorsally, the first and second tergites com- 

 bined constituting about half its length, the first tergite equal to 

 about twice the second. Head and throax brassy-green, the clypeal 

 region, under side of throax, and the propodeum more or less tinged 

 with bluish; antennal pedicel and flagellum blackish; scape reddish 



