332 W. H. ASHMKAD. 



ISOSO:VIOI>ES Ashraead. 

 1888. — Entom. Auier. vol. iv, p. 42 (Juue). 

 (Type Isosoma gigantea Ashm.) 

 Isosoiiiodes gigantea Ashm. 



Hab. — District of Columbia. Florida and St. Vincent, W. T. 



PHIL,A€HYRA Haliday (Walker). 



1871. — Haliday, iu Walker's Notes on Chalcididse, pt. 1, p. 7. 



(Type Philachyra ips Hal.) 



AIL.09I0KI>HtI^i Walker. 



1871. — Notes on Chalcididae, pt. 1, p. 12. 



(Type A. rhophaloides Walk.) 



Subfamily Chalcidin.e. 



€HAI.C:iN Fabr. 

 Clialcis tarsalis sp. n. 



'J, . — Length 2.1 mm. Black, except the tarsi, which are honey-yellow. Head 

 aud thorax rugoso-piinctate ; abdomen highly polished, impunctate, the first body 

 segment the longest, the following about one-third the length of the first, sub- 

 equal. Wings hyaline, tegulae and nervures piceous-black, the marginal nervure 

 twice the length of the stigmal, the postmarginal scarcely as long as the stigmal ; 

 the swollen hind femora with about seven small teeth. 



Hab. — Morgantown, W. Va. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Prof. A. D. Hopkins 

 on elm. 



This species resembles small specimens of C. ovata Say, but is 

 quite distinct from it and all other described forms by the color of 

 legs and teguUe. 



STOMATOCERA Kirhy. 



St oiiiatocera rubra sp. n. 



O. — Length 4 mm. Brick-red, coarsely reticulately punctate, clothed with 

 some sparse white hairs, the pubescence on the posterior coxae and nietapleura 

 denser; scutellum bidentate at tip. Head antero-posteriorly thin, the vertex 

 acute; antennae 11-jointed, inserted just over the clypeus, the flagellum twice 

 the length of the scape, the first joint only two-thirds the length of pedicel, the 

 second as long, or a little longer than the pedicel, the following joints shorter. 

 Thorax high, the pronotum transverse quadrate; mesonotum with distinct par- 

 apsidal furrows; metathorax abrupt, with a trapezoidal enclosure on the meta- 

 notuni, reticulated. Wings hyaline, with a dusky blotch across the wing, before 



