XVlll MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS. 



Sub-family— ELACHRISTIN^. 

 EUPL,ECTIJS Westwood. 



23. Kuplecttis marginatum n. sp. 



9 . — Length .07-. 09 inch. Piceous back ; head transverse, finely strigose and 

 with but few large punctures, covered with a few scattered hairs; face triangular 

 palpi yellowish ; eyes brown ; antennse, scape long, slender, slightly curved and 

 with a well defined longitudinal groove, honey yellow ; flagellum dark, with 

 fourth joint and club pedunculated; thorax: collar very short, finely rugose; 

 mesoscutum broad, coarsely, transversely rugose, with the median carinae promi- 

 nent; scutellum coarsely granulated and margined posteriorly; scapulae rugose, 

 strongly margined at sides; prosternal episternura rugose and margined, pleurae 

 divided by a longitudinal depi'ession, the anterior portion of which is rugose and 

 margined, the posterior portion smooth; legs with coxae dark honey yellow, 

 ungues brown ; in some specimens middle coxae and hind femora are infuseated ; 

 wings hyaline, pubescent, veins yellowish, postmarginal vein longer than stigmal : 

 abdomen smooth, shining, black, the whole surface beneath and a spot in some 

 specimens, on dorsum, honey yellow. 



The % is at once recognized by its smaller size, ovate and long peduncled ab- 

 domen, its much more hairy body and b}^ the broad, flattened antennal scape. 



Described from fifteen specimens, two males and thirteen females, 

 bred from an unknown noctuid larva. The Chalcid larvae were feeding 

 externally in a mass upon the hinder part of the caterpillar, and when 

 placed in the breeding-box abandoned it and spun loosely woven cocoons 

 from which imagos emerged in six days. 



This species is near Euplectiis Comstockil Howard, but is at once dis- 

 tinguished from it by the dilated scape in % and the longitudinally 

 grooved scape in 9 • 



Sub-family— EULOPHIN.E. 

 TETKANEMUS Westwood. 



24. Tetraiieiniis floridanus n. sp. 



%. — Length .OS inch. Brassy, coarsely, but not deeply punctate, sparsely pu- 

 bescent; head wider than thorax, brassy and smooth around the eyes, finely 

 grooved and with a few junctures on vertex and back of eyes, on face the grooves 

 converge towards mouth; eyes brown; antennae 8-jointed, brown, pubescent, 

 scape strongly curved outward, brownish ; pedicel rounded, longer than wide and 

 stouter than scape ; club subclavate, first joint bearing two pairs of long branches ; 

 thorax, collar short, narrowly pointed before; scutellum rounded, convex ; pro- 

 sternum brassy with transverse grooves : abdomen shorter than thorax, black with 

 brassy tinge; legs: coxae testaceous, middle and anterior femora light brown with 

 edges beneath and above brown, posterior pair dark brown with greenish metallic 

 tinge, the tibiae are infuseated, first three tarsal joints pale, fourth with pale brown, 

 apical spur on middle legs about as long as first tarsal joint; wing.=' fuliginous, 

 with a white transverse band across stigmal region ; this is divided in the middle 

 by a prolongation, pyramidal in shape, of the anterior fuliginous portion, but it 

 does not quite reach the basal portion. 



Described from one specimen taken on oak shrubs. 



