NO. 1984. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA, 7— CRAWFORD. 313 

 PARENIACA BUSCKI, new species. 



3Iale. — Length about 2.25 mm. Black, the antennae except the 

 light reddish scape, dark reddish-brown; the fore and mid femora 

 brown, their tibiae lighter, hind legs black; head and thorax rugoso- 

 punctate; first joint of funicle hardly as long as broad; second joint 

 about as long as pedicel; wings yellowish, more so on the disk, so 

 that the apical margin from the marginal vein outward and around 

 on rear of wing to a point about opposite apex of marginal vein 

 appears lighter; first abdominal segment longer than broad, with 

 three dorsal carinse, second segment with about three or four carinse 

 no longer than first segment and not more than one-fourth as long as 

 second segment; second segment smooth apically. 



Type-locality. — Cabima, Panama. 



One specimen collected by August Busck, after whom it is named, 

 May 27, 1911. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15548, U.S.N.M. 



(HONTALIA) PARENIACA KIRBYI (Ashmead). 



The specimen deposited in the United States National Museum is a 

 female instead of a male. It has the first abdominal segment slightly 

 longer than broad, with three dorsal carinae, the second segment with 

 about eight carinse wliich are about as long as first segment and about 

 one-fourth as long as the second segment; the first joint of the funiclej 

 is shorter than the second and this is shorter than the pedicel. 



Family PTEROMALID.E. 



POLYCYSTUS FOERSTERI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2 mm. Head and thorax somewhat 

 brassy green, the abdomen blue-green; head and thorax with some- 

 what irregular thimble-like punctures, those on the head finer, those 

 on middle lobe of mesoscutum the coarsest; scape and pedicel green-< 

 ish, rest of antennae brown, with a slight greenish tinge; joints of 

 funicle almost subequal in length and almost subquadrate; first joint 

 of funicle shorter than pedicel; propodeum smooth, with strong 

 median and lateral carinae, and basad about midway between median 

 and each lateral carina a fovea; wings hyaline; postmarginal vein 

 shorter than marginal but distinctly longer than stigmal; legs, 

 except the green coxae, honey color; petiole about as long as hind 

 coxse; abdomen short, smooth, the basal segment at apex medially 

 incised. 



Male. — Length about 1.5 mm. Similar to the female but the 

 head more blue, the face bluish-purple; antennae, except club, flavous; 

 enlarged apical joint of palpi yellowish; legs, except coxae, light 

 yellow in color. 



