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Male. — ^Length 1.5 mm. Similar to the female except in sec- 

 ondary sexual characters, the antennae being much longer than the 

 insect itself, measuring over 2 mm.; the third joint of antennae much 

 longer than joints 1 and 2 combined, and about equal in length to 

 joints 4 and 5 combined; joints 4-15 almost subequal in length. 



Type-locality. — Dallas, Texas. 



Described from three females and three males collected by F. C. 

 Pratt, and recorded under Bureau of Entomology note number, 

 Hunter Nos. 1611-27 and 1611-6. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15543, U.S.N.M. 



EUCOILA HTJNTERI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 1 mm. Dark brown, smooth and polished, 

 with the femora lighter brown and the tibiae and tarsi reddish- 

 testaceous; antennae brown, the scape and pedicel thickened, the 

 scape very short, hardly longer than the pedicel and this only slightly 

 longer than broad; third and fourth joints of antennae slender, the 

 third about as long as the second; joints 5 to 13 thickened, somewhat 

 longer than broad and forming the club; elevation of scuteUum con- 

 cave, as broad as long and more triangular than ovoid in shape, with 

 a row of pits just inside margin and a large fovea near the center; the 

 upper part of the scutellum supporting the disk, smooth, the lower 

 part rugose. 



Male . — Unknown . 



Type-locality. — Dallas, Texas. 



Two specimens recorded under Bureau of Entomology note num- 

 ber, Hunter No. 2988, and with the additional note that it was bred 

 from puparium of a miner on cotton leaves, 5.19.12; A. Rutherford, 

 collector. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15544, U.S.N.M. 



This species runs in the table by Dalla Torre and Kieffer ^ to the 

 genus Eucoila, sens str. It differs from E. ruficornis Ashmead and 

 E. alaskensis Ashmead by the short third and fourth joints of the 

 antennae, by having the fovea on the scutellum discal instead of 

 apical, as well as the broad subtriangular disk of scutellum. 



This species is named in honor of W. D. Hunter, who is in charge 

 of the branch of investigations from which this material was received. 



PSILOSEMA PRATTI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 1.25 mm.; black, shiny, impunctate, with 

 sparse hairs; head produced behind the eyes, almost quadrate; 

 antennae dark brown; propodeum finely rugose, with two parallel 

 median longitudinal carinae; wings hyaline, the marginal fringes 



» Das Tierreich, Lief. 24, Cynipidae, 1910. 



