NO. 2195. NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA—ROUWER. 169 



Male. — Length, 10 mm. Agrees well with the above characteriza- 

 tion of the female. 



Type-locality. — United States. Described from three specimens 

 from Texas, one female type, a male allotype, and a female paratype; 

 a single female from Camden, New Jersey, collected June 30 ; a single 

 female from Jackson, Florida; one specimen from Mount Vernon, 

 Virginia, recorded under Bureau of Entomology No. Hopk. U. S. 

 11845c?, which refers to a note stating that this species is parasitic on 

 Elaphidion vittorum, material collected by F. C. Craighead, adult 

 emerging February 16, 1914; one female from the Catalina Moun- 

 tains, Arizona, recorded under Bureau of Entomology No. Hopk. 

 U. S. 12679a, which refers to a note indicating that this is a parasite 

 of a species of Elaphidion which works in Quercus emoryi. 



Type.— Qui. No. 19000, U.S.N.M. 



ODONTOBRACON CALIFORNICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 7 mm.; length of ovipositor 3.5 mm.; length of 

 antennae 6 mm. Head below the antennae reticulate, with a strong 

 medium carina which is represented immediately above the clypeus 

 by a shining area; head above the antennae and posterior orbits 

 shining, impunctate; behind each lateral ocellus is a small depressed 

 area; antennae hairy, third and fourth joints subequal, oblique api- 

 cally ; scutum, prescutum and scutellum shining, practically impunc- 

 tate ; posterior portion of the prescutum with two longitudinal striae, 

 which attain the apical margin of the scutum ; notauli feebly foveolate 

 posteriorly; suture between the scutum and the scutellum with nine 

 rugae; anterior portion of the notauli very finel}'^ foveolate; epister- 

 nauli not sculptured; sternauli foveolate; episternum shining, im- 

 punctate, posterior margin foveolate ; lateral aspect of the pronotum 

 with oblique rugae ventrally, sparsely reticulate dorsally ; lower por- 

 tion of the lateral aspect of the propodeum shining, sparsely punc- 

 tured; dorsal aspect and dorsal lateral aspect of the propodeum 

 reticulate; median area reticulate with strong median carina which 

 divides at the top of the posterior face into two poorly defined 

 carinae which extend to the ventral margin of the posterior face; 

 first tergite striate with two prominent carinae basally, which are al- 

 most half the length of the tergite and converge apically; second 

 teigite with an oval-shaped median area which is three times as wide 

 as long; sides of the second tergite reticulate; extreme base of the 

 third tergite finely reticulate; most of the third and the entire fol- 

 loAving segments shining, impunctate; at the apical third of the third 

 and fourth tergites is a transverse furrow ; first abscissa of the radius 

 half the length of the second recurrent, about the length of the first 

 abscissa of the radius basad of the first transverse cubitus. Rufous; 

 head, antennae, legs, tegulae, pronotum and a spot on the mesepis- 



