NO. 2197. NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA—GAHAN. 211 



shorter, the last a little longer than thick; club three- jointed and 

 only slightly longer than the two preceding funicle joints. Mesoscu- 

 Uun punctured like the head, but with the punctures on the posterior 

 middle deeper and coarser than elsewhere; apical one- fourth of the 

 scutellum with deeper and slightly coarser punctures than anteriorly, 

 the line of demarkation between the two kinds of punctation quite 

 distinct and often more or less of a transverse furrow, the extreme 

 apical margin of scutellum with a median emargination, visible only 

 when viewed from directly behind: propodeum between the lateral 

 folds punctured like the thorax, without a median carina, outside 

 the lateral folds shining and only faintly sculptured, the spiracular 

 sulci deep and foveolate; stigmal vein only slightly shorter than 

 the marginal vein, the postmarginal much longer than the marginal; 

 abdomen conic ovate, about equal to the thorax in length, the tergites 

 practically smooth, but with some obscure reticulate lines. Head 

 and thorax dark greenish, the abdomen bronzy black with greenish 

 reflections; scape and pedicel pale reddish; flagellum nearlj' black; 

 mandibles piceus ; all coxae concolorous with the thorax ; all femora 

 dark brown; basal half of median and hind tibiae brownish; the 

 front tibiae, apical half of median and hind tibiae and all tarsi 

 except the apical joint pale yellowish ; wings hyaline, the venation 

 pale brownish with the stigmal knob and the thickened apical por- 

 tion of the submarginal vein nearly black. 



Male. — TTnknown. 



Type-locality. — Maxwell, New Mexico. 



Type.—Q'AX.. No. 20389, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Hemileuca olivme. 



Thirteen females reared from the pupa of the above-named host by 

 C. K. Wildermuth and recorded in the Bureau of Entomology under 

 M^ebster No. 5054. 



EUPTEROMALUS TACHINAE, new species. 



Female. — Length 2.3 mm. Head closely reticulate-punctate, the 

 sculpture becoming shallower below the antennae, the mouth region 

 striate: head strongly transverse, broader than the thorax, as viewed 

 from above nearly four times as broad as long; occiput concave, 

 ocelli in a low triangle: viewed from in front the head is broader 

 than long, the antennae inserted a little below the middle of face; 

 antennal scape reaching to the front ocellus, pedicel longer than the 

 first joint of funicle: two ring-joints, the first small, the second as 

 long as broad: first funicle joint a little longer than broad, the 

 foUoAving joints successively a little shorter; club three-jointed, conic- 

 ovate, and a trifle longer than the two preceding funicle joints; 

 mesoscutum sculptured like tlie head, the scutellum similarly but 



