ART. 24. InEW reared parasitic HYMENOPTERA GAHAN. 17 



shilling black, the scape more or less metallic blue; head deep 

 steel blue, with the vertex faintly brassy; thorax and abdomen 

 above metallic green, the abdomen Avith coppery reflections; under 

 side of the thorax and all legs blue-green, the knees, apices of all 

 tibiae and all of the tarsi except the apical joint pale; vrings hyaline, 

 ovipositor sheaths black. 



Male. — Antenna 1 pedicel not quite as long as the combined ring- 

 joint and first funicle joint; sixth and seventh funicle joints sub- 

 quadrate or very slightly longer than broad; club a little shorter 

 than the three preceding funicle joints combined (pi. 1, fig. 3) ; 

 abdomen a little shorter than head and thorax together; posterior 

 margins of none of the tergites emarginate. Otherwise the male is 

 like the female except that the general color is a little more highly 

 metallic. 



T7/pe locality. — San Miguel, California. 



Type.—C?iL^o. 24988. U.S.N.M. 



Type and six female paratypes from the type locality reared by 

 C. M. Packard in July and August, 1916, from wheat steams contain- 

 ing Ilarmolita., species, and recorded in the Bureau of Entomology 

 under Webster No. 13368. Allotype male from Estrella, California, 

 reared by Mr. Packard from similar material and recorded under the 

 same Webster number. Also one female from Concord, California, 

 reared, according to the labelling, from Phytophaga destructor (Say) 

 by M. C. Lane. 



Family EULOPHIDAE. 



Subfamily Aphelininae. 



COCCOPHAGUS SAISSETIAE, new species. 



This species is apparently distinct from any described species in 

 the color of the legs Avhich, in the female, are entirely yellowish- 

 white with the exception of the hind tibiae which are mostly black. 



Female. — Lengih 1.2 mm. Eyes hairy; entire front of head with 

 the exception of antennal grooves granularly opaque ; antennal scape 

 rather short, pedicel only slightly longer than broad; first funicle 

 joint the longest, about one and two-third times the pedicel; second 

 funicle joint a little shorter than the first ; third not quite as long as 

 the second ; club 3-jointed not much thicker than funicle. conic-ovate, 

 and about as long as pedicel and first funicle joint combined ; meso- 

 scutum and scutellum finely shagreened, more or less shining and 

 rather thickly set with greyish hairs ; mesopleura smooth ; marginal 

 vein of forewing longer than submarginal, marginal cilia short. 

 General color black; head, except occiput above, lemon yellow; scu- 

 tellum apically bordered with yellow, this border comprising ap- 



