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coxae pale yellowish; middle femora and tibiae without brownish 

 spots or bands and the prepectus concolorous with the rest of thorax. 

 Redescribed from the above mentioned material in the United 

 States National Museum. 



CALOSOTER METALLICUS, new species. 

 Plate ]. figs. 1. 2, and 8. 



Ill Ashmead's generic key to Eupelminae this species runs first to 

 CliaHtoyu^ but does not agree since the mesonotum is somewhat im- 

 pressed and the axillae broadly separated at base of scutellum. If 

 category 7 in the key is ignored it runs satisfactorily to Galosoter 

 except that the eyes are not entirely bare but sparsely set with very 

 short inconspicuous hairs. In Schmiedeknecht's key ^ it runs more 

 readily to Calosoter and agrees very well with the generic description. 



Female. — Length 2.4 mm. Head with rather weak reticulate- 

 punctate sculpture, strongest on the vertex ; antennae (pi. 1, fig. 

 2) rather short, scape not reaching to front ocellus, pedicel a little 

 longer than the combined ring-joint and first joint of funicle; ring- 

 joint about as long as broad; first funicle joint not over one and 

 one-half times the length of ring-joint ; second about twice as long 

 as broad, and about equal to the combined first funicle and ring- 

 joint; third and fourth subequal and slightly shorter than the third; 

 fifth subequal in length to the first but broader; sixth subquadrate 

 and the seventh slightly transverse; club short, ovate, about equal 

 in length to the three preceding funicle joints; mesoscutum and 

 scutellum strongly sculptured, the former only slightly depressed on 

 the disc, its sculpture consisting of shallow more or less irregularly 

 shaped punctures or areas set off by raised lines, the scutellum with 

 similar sculpture but the areas more minute and elongate giving a 

 .nore or less longitudinally lineolate appearance; axillae very small 

 and widelj^ separated; propodeum nearly smooth dorsally, its lateral 

 aspect faintly sculptured and hairy; mesopleura weakly reticulate; 

 basal joint of median tarsi somewhat swollen, without the usual 

 stout spines beneath or if present they are colorless and very weak: 

 abdomen about equal to the head and thorax in length, with dis- 

 tinct fine sculpture all over, the first to fourth tergites emarginate 

 medially, the fifth broadly concave at apex; ovipositor sheaths ex- 

 tending very slightly beyond the apex of abdomen; wings with the 

 costal cell and basal area, except at the posterior margin of the wing, 

 as well as the discal portion of the wing closely set with fine, short 

 cilia ; stigmal vein slightly shorter than the postmarginal, the mar- 

 ginal about four times as long as the postmarginal. Antennae 



' Wytsman'.s Genera Insectomm, Clialcididae, p. 170. 



