ART. .4 NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA GAHAN l3 



flange behind; abdomen not longer than thorax, sessile, its apex 

 truncate or broadly rounded; ovipositor strongly exserted. Male 

 unknown. 



Type of the genus. — Anastatoidea hrachartonae, new species. 



ANASTATOIDEA BRACHARTONAE, new species 



Plate 1, fig. 3 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Head, in front view, broader above than 

 below, squarely truncate at the mouth; cheeks equal to about half 

 the length of scape; face shagreened and clothed with short appressed 

 scalelike hairs; the cheeks with a beard of moderately long black 

 bristles ; scrobicular depression finely shagreened ; frons nearly twice 

 as wide at upper margin of scrobe as at the lateral ocelli, very finely 

 shagreened and clothed with fine grayish hairs, its lateral margins 

 with a row of erect grayish hairs; ocelli in a nearly equilateral triangle, 

 the front ocellus about five times its own diameter above the margin 

 of scrobe, lateral ocelli touching the eye-margins; vertex clothed with 

 bla,ck bristles; temples and occiput with fine rugulose sculpture and 

 short silvery pubescence; antennal pedicel approximately twice as 

 long as the third antennal joint which is longer than broad; fourth 

 antennal joint more than twice as long as broad, the tenth subquad- 

 rate; club a little longer than the two preceding funicle joints; mid- 

 dle lobe of mesoscutum uniformly densely punctate and opaque, lateral 

 lobes much more weakly and finely sculptured and clothed with short 

 pale pubescence; scutellum and axillae punctate like the praescutum 

 but the punctures slightly coarser, the vertical margins of scutellum 

 weakly reticulated and shining; propodeum weakly shagreened at 

 the sides, smooth medially; pleura with fine longitudinal lineolation; 

 front femora moderately stout, their tibiae somewhat compressed; 

 middle tibiae with a group of about 12 short black spines at apex on 

 the anterior side, the tibial spur about two-thirds as long as basitar- 

 sus, the first, second and third tarsal joints each with a double row 

 of short spines beneath; hind legs long, their femora compressed, 

 but not expanded, their tibiae with two unequal spurs, the flangelike 

 posterior margin about as broad in its broadest portion as the non- 

 compressed portion of tibiae and nearly uniform in width throughout, 

 except that it is slightly narrowed basally; hind basitarsus about as 

 long as the four following joints together, compressed into a flange 

 behind, the flange about equal in width to the noncompressed portion; 

 forewing extending to or slightly beyond the apex of abdomen ; post- 

 marginal vein about half as long as marginal; stigmal about half the 

 length of postmarginal; costal cell with about three closely set rows 

 of fine cilia near the vein and extending from base to near apex of 

 cell; basal cell bare; remainder of wing densely ciliated, the ciliated 

 area abruptly truncated basally, the cilia behind the marginal and 



