214 WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



Family CHALCIDID^. 

 Subfamily Eucharin^:. 

 LOPHYROtERA Cameron. 

 % . — Length nearly 5 mm. Head black, coarsely striated ; antennfe 1'2-jointed. 

 filiform, tapering toward tips, the first fiagellar joint nearly twice as long as the 

 second, the following snhequal in length. Thorax entirely brownish yellow, 

 coarsely reticulated, the scutellum bidentate at apex, the teeth widely separated, 

 sides of mesothorax with broad, obtuse processes, but not very prominent, formed 

 by a median impression on the metanotum and by a lateral impression on the 

 metapleura. Legs and petiole greenish white. Abdomen light brown, but a little 

 darker than the thorax. Wings hyaline, with a slight brownish tinge, the mar- 

 ginal and stigmal veins brown. 



Hab.— Key West. Fla. 



Described from a single specimen, taken July 17, 1894, by Mr. 

 H. F. Wickham. 



This interesting species comes nearest to L. jioridana Ashra., but 

 in that species the thorax is marked with black, the scutellar teeth 

 are also black and conjoined at base, while the metathoracic pro- 

 cesses are longer and more distinct. 



Family BRACONID.E. 

 Subfamily Doryctin.e. 



IIETEROSPIL,lJS Haliday. 

 Heterospiluiiii caryi(^ sp. n. 



^ . — Length 4-4.5 mm. Opaque black ; basal two joints of antennse, more or 

 les.s of collar and legs, rufous; the coxse and femora more or less fuscous. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins brown. Head quadrate, transversely aciculated ; middle lol)e 

 of mesonotum and metanotum rugose, the latter areolated ; lateral lobes of meta- 

 notum and scutellum shagrecned. Abdomen oblong, a little longer than the head 

 and thorax united, with an ovipositor as long or a little longer than the body ; 

 the first and second segments are long, the latter with two oblique grooved lines, 

 both, however, are coar.sely longitudinally striated ; the second segment at apex 

 medially, the a])ical margin of the third and all the following segments are 

 .smooth and polished ; the third segment, except at apex, shagreened. 



%. — Length 2.25-3 mm. Agrees with the 9' except the legs are fuscous, the 

 mesopleura below are streaked with rufous, the apical abdominal segments are 

 more or less shagreened basally, while the bind wings are stigmated. 



Hab. — Morgan town, W. Va. 



Described from two 9 'ind four % specimens bred by Prof. A. D. 

 Hopkins from a Coleopterous larva living in hickory. 



HcterospiliiM te.YaiiiiH sp. n. 



% . — Length 4 mm. Agrees with the former species, but is larger, the legs and 

 collar being black, the tibi» with a honey-yellow annulus at base, their tips ami 



