324 W. H. ASHMKAD. 



Eiirytouia cra«$siiieiira sp. n. 



9. — Length 2.5-3 mm. Black, opaque, clotlied with a .short, glistening pu- 

 bescence: head and thorax, nmhilicate punctate; scape beneath, knees, tips of 

 the tibise and all tarsi, except last joint, brownish yellow, the tarsi sometimes 

 whitish, tegulse rufopiceous; abdomen conic-ovate, siibcompressed, highly pol- 

 ished, the petiole a little longer than tliick, punctate. Head transverse, as wide 

 as the mesonotum, about two and one-half times as wide as tliick antero-poste- 

 riorly, cheeks above flat, below toward mouth a little broader and with a slight 

 margin : frons with an anteunal furrow ; face covered with a short, rather dense, 

 white pubescence; mandibles piceou.s-black ; palpi fuscous; antennae (without 

 counting ring-joints) 10-joinled, the flagellum subclavate, pubescent. sli>;htly 

 more tlian three times as long as the scape; funicle .TJointed, tlie first joint Ihv 

 longest, about two and a half times as long as thick at tip. the following cup- 

 shaped, scarcely longer than thick; club fusiform, much thicker than funicle, 

 3-jointed. the joints compactly united, as long as the first and second joints 

 united. Thorax with the parapsidal furrows well defined; pronotuni luirrower 

 than the head or mesonotum, transverse-quadrate, as long as the mesonotum. or 

 with the conically produced neck longer; scutelluni convex, a little longer than 

 the mesonotum ; metanotum very short, medially impressed. Wings hyaline, 

 pubescent, the venation yellowish ; the marginal vein is much incrassated, a little 

 wider at apex than at base, one and one-half times as long as the stigmal, which 

 terminates in a small rounded stigma with a slight uncus; postmarginal very 

 little longer than the stigmal. Abdomen conic-ovate, as long as the thorax, the 

 length of the body (excluding the short petiole) about three times as long as 

 wide, as viewed from the side dorso-ventraliy, the fourth body-segment as long 

 as the first, second and third united. 



'Jj . — Length 1-2.5 mm. This sex varies greatly in size and color, although 

 otherwise, except in the usual sexual difl'erences, it agrees with the female. One 

 specimen is entirely black, with the legs colored as in 9 ! another has the scape, 

 all the legs (including coxte), except a blotch en hind femora, brownish yellow; 

 while a third has the face, scape, the legs entirely, pronotum, except median 

 dorsal stripe, mesopleura, scapulae, axillae and metathorax, except the median 

 depression on dorsum and petiole, brownish yellow. The antennae liave the first 

 four flagellar joints contracted or petiolated at apex, the first being the longest, 

 all vvitii very long white hairs, the club is conic, composed of tliree joints com- 

 pactly united and no longer tlsan the first funicular joint; the flagellum varies 

 from a light brown to black. The abdomen is attached to the metathorax by a 

 long petiole, which is a little longer than the hind coxae, of a uniform thickness 

 throughout and finely shagreened, the body, or abdomen i)ropcr, is ovate, sub- 

 compressed, very little longer than the petiole and with a deep longitudinal fur- 

 row above toward base, the first .segment occupying fully two-thirds of its length, 

 the following segments being more or less retracted. 



Hub. — Morgtuitown, W. Va. Types in West Virginiii Agi-icul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 



Described from six female and three male specimens bred by Prof 

 A. D. Hopkins as follows: one female labeled from a Scolytid in 

 plum ; three females from Scolytus rugvlosas in peach, one male from 

 the same Scolytid in cherry, and two females and two males from 

 the same Scolytid in apple. 



