192 W. H. ASHMEAD. 



ized in the " Canadian Entomologist" some years ago when I began 

 my entomological studies and knew comparatively nothing of the 

 enormous work accomplished by hosts of learned students. I can 

 see now that my earlier work is of but comparatively little value. 



Subftimily Pteromalin^. 



Tribe MISC'HOGAvSTEIDES. 

 .^IEOORIS:VIUS Walker. 



43. Megorisniiis uubilipeiiiiis n. sp.— 9. Length .11 inch. Broad, 

 robust, shining blue-black, almost devoid of sculpture. The antennal scape and 

 legs reddish-brown, the posterior femora infuscated, in one specimen slightly 

 bluish, the tarsi pale. The wings are hyaline, with a large brown blotch en- 

 closing marginal vein and stigma ; veins brown ; the marginal vein about twice 

 the length of the stigmal, the knob of the stigmal vein is toothed and the sub- 

 marginal vein is interrupted by a pale ring at the juncture with the marginal 

 vein. The abdomen is broad and flattened. 



Hab. — Toronto, Canada. Described from three 9 specimens sent 

 me by Mr. AVm. Brodie, of Toronto, Canada, and bred by him from 

 the cynipidous gall Solenozopheria vaccinii Ashm. 



I have also reared hundreds of the same species from the same gall 



in Florida. 



IIALTIC'OPTERA Spinola. 



44. Haltieoptera Brodiei n. sp.— 9 . Length .10 to .12 inch. Metallic 

 greenish-blue; the face more or less green ; the anteunte arf brown, the scape 

 and the legs pale brown or yellowish-brown. The thorax is granulately punc- 

 tate without parapsidal grooves; the collar is very short, visible from above only 

 as a sharp ridge. The sessile abdomen is long, pointed, ovate and is slightly 

 brassy above at base. The wings are clear hyaline with pale yellowish veins, the 

 marginal and postmarginal veins both long, the stigmal ending in a small knob 

 and two-thirds the length of the postmarginal. 



Hab. — Toronto, Canada. Described from three specimens reared 

 by Mr. Wm. Brodie from the oak gall Blorhiza forticornu Walsh. 



Tribe CLEONYMIDES. 

 TRIGONODERUS Westwood. 



• 45. Trigoiioderus aegerise n. sp.— 9- Length .12 inch. A brilliant 

 golden-green, coarsely punctate species, with a large, somewhat triangular head, 

 distinct parapsides and subsessile, flattened, rounded abdomen. The antennsp, are 

 placed slightly below the middle of the face rather slender, subclavate, with a 

 black pedicel, markedly contrasting with the brown scape and flagellum. The 

 scutellum has a deep, transverse groove near its tip, and is convexly rounded ; 

 the legs yellowish. The wings are hyaline, veins brown ; the marginal vein is 

 not particularly long, about the same length as the postmarginal. 



A very handsome species taken on the leaf of a squash vine and 

 supposed to be parasitic on Melittia ceto Westw., which was found 

 boring into and destroying the vine. 



