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ENTEDON THOMSONI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2 mm. Green, the legs, except coxae, 

 white; face both above and below V-shaped furrow, without coarse 

 punctures, smooth and shiny, along inner orbits with a few setig- 

 erous punctures; scape whitish at base; funicle and club somewhat 

 compressed; joints of funicle elongate, the first the longest; vertex 

 finely lineolately reticulate, at rear sharply carinate; mesonotum 

 irregularly reticulate, the middle lobe coarsely so, the scutellum 

 somewhat more finely so, the lateral lobes much more finely; propo- 

 deum with a few weak wrinkles and at base medially a small V- 

 shaped carina with the point caudad; median carina obsolete; wings 

 hyaline; petiole shorter than hind coxse. 



Male. — Length about 1 .5 mm. Similar to the female except in 

 secondary sexual characters; scape enlarged and flattened; median 

 carina on propodeum distinct; propodeum more wrinkled than in 

 female, and in part subreticulately wrinlded. 



Type-locality. — Lafayette, Indiana. 



Described from 13 specimens reared from Agromyza angulata by 

 P. Luginbill and recorded under Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, note number, Webster No. 9700. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15554, U.S.N.M. 



This species is named in honor of the eminent hymenopterist, C. G. 

 Thomson, whose careful work has done so much to aid the student 

 of the Chalcidoidea. 



PLEUROTROPIS UTAHENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2.5 mm. Green, with brassy tints, more 

 apparent on head, the abdomen, except basally, bronzy; head both 

 above and below V-shaped furrow with thimble-like punctures; 

 funicle 2-jointed; first joint of funicle longer than pedicel, the second 

 shorter than pedicel; mesoscutum and scutellum rugosely reticulated, 

 the scarlike continuations of the parapsidal furrows smooth; propo- 

 deum normal — that is, with two median carinas which posteriorly 

 diverge; lateral carinae present, posteriorly these join oblique carinas, 

 which j oil! at the side the carina surrounding the superior half of the 

 short propodeal neck; the median carinas join these oblique carinae 

 slightly posterior of a point midway between the lateral carinae 

 and the point where the oblique carinae join the apical carina; propo- 

 deum, except for carinae, smooth, polished; wings hyaline; legs, 

 except tarsi, greenish; abdomen, except basal segment, finely reticu- 

 lated. 



Male. — Length about 2 mm. Similar to the female; funicle 3- 

 jointed. 



Type-locality. — Salt Lake City, Utah. 



