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very long; wing veins light honey color; legs dark brown; abdomen 

 smooth, shiny, rugose at extreme base. 



Male. — Length 1.25 mm. Similar to the female except in sexual 

 characters. 



Type-locality. — Dallas, Texas. 



Described from 8 specimens reared from manure by F. C. Pratt, 

 after whom the species is named. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15545, U.S.N.M. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family CHALCIDID^. 



HONTALIA MAGNIFICA, new species. 



Female. — Length about 7.5 mm. ; ovipositor about 4.5 mm. Head 

 above blue, face and cheeks greenish; thorax green with some cop- 

 pery and bluish reflections, the scuteUum with bluish in the bottoms 

 of the punctures ; abdomen aeneous with greenish reflections ; viewed 

 laterally the lower spine of the head as long as the upper and along 

 the dorsal surface the elevation crenulate; from above the outer and 

 inner edges of the projection are strongly reflexed so that the flat- 

 tened portion appears sunken; head and thorax with very large well- 

 separated punctures, those on the mesoscutum about- a puncture 

 width apart; extreme base of mesoscutum smooth; punctures on 

 scutellum larger and closer; propodeum at each side with a blunt 

 spine at about the middle; propodeum with a median and lateral 

 longitudinal carinee which extend to the apex of the neck of the 

 propodeum, the latter being at the sides of the neck; between the 

 median and each lateral carina another carina extending from the 

 base of the propodeum about half its length, making the propodeum 

 5-carinate; wings yellowish; fore and mid legs rufous, their coxas 

 green, hind legs green, their tarsi reddish; venter spined in front of 

 each hind coxse; hind coxce longer than hind femora; petiole, seen 

 from above, havhig the lateral margins carinate, and between these 

 three carinse making it from above 5-carinate; ventral spine of 

 petiole about half its length; first abdominal segment about half of 

 the length of abdomen; rest of segments except apical margins very 

 finely punctured; sheaths of ovipositor longer than abdomen. 



Type-locality. — Cabima, Panama. 



One specimen collected May 27, 1911, by August Busck. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15546, U.S.N.M. 



This species differs from H. cserulea Cameron in color and in the 

 number of carinas on the propodeum and petiole and in having the 

 ovipositor longer than the abdomen ; H. cameroni Ashmead is figured 

 as having three carinae on the propodeum and four on the petiole. 



