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Subfamily Eulophinae. 



NOTANISOMORPHA MEROMTZAE. new species. 



Female. — Length 2.4 ram. Antennae inserted on the middle of 

 the face, moderately long ; scape reaching slightly above the anterior 

 ocellus, pedicel about one and one-half times as long as its apical 

 width, first funicle joint about tAvice as long as the pedicel and dis- 

 tinctly longer than the second, the second very slightly longer than 

 the third, fourth joint the shortest and only slightly longer than 

 broad; club short, about equal to the first funicle joint in length, two- 

 jointed, joint one about equal in length to the fourth funicle joint, 

 joint two about as long as broad and tapering to a point at apex. 

 Head and thorax closely punctate, the punctures of the pronotum and 

 middle of the mesoscutum coarser than those of the scutellum, axillae 

 and lateral lobes of the mesoscutum; metanotum punctate like the 

 mesoscutellum ; propodeum finely closely punctate all over, the punc- 

 tures a little finer and deeper than those of the scutellum, with a dis- 

 tinct median longitudinal carina and rather broad spiracular sulci; 

 abdomen ovate, a little shorter than the thorax, the first tergite pol- 

 ished, tergites beyond the first faintly sculptured. Head, thorax, all 

 coxae, and the first tergite metallic green, antennae including scape 

 black ; wings hyaline, the venation brownish ; legs except coxae tes- 

 taceous, the median and posterior femora and their tibiae basally 

 slightly infuscated with brownish; abdomen except the first tergite 

 blackish. 



Male. — Length 2 mm. Joints 1,2, and 3 of the funicle each bearing 

 a long slender branch, the branches each extending to or nearly to the 

 apex of antennae, first funicle joint the shortest of the funicle joints, 

 joints 2 and 3 about equal, joint 4 the longest and about twice as 

 long as the first; club subequal to the fourth funicle joint in length, 

 two- jointed as in the female. Except in antennal characters the male 

 is similar to the female but a little more slender bodied, and slightly 

 more metallic in color. 



Type-locality. — La Fayette, Indiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 20396, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Meromyza americana. 



Two females from the type locality reared, according to the labels, 

 from the above-named host by P. Luginbill and recorded in the 

 Bureau of Entomology under Webster No. 9734. Mr. Luginbill is 

 unable to state the stage of the host from which the parasite emerged. 

 The allotype reared by C. N. Ainslie at Elkpoint, South Dakota, is 

 recorded under Webster No. 8840, and is said to have been reared 

 " without much question from the pupae of MeroTnyza ameHcana. 

 There is also a chance that it may have come from a mine of Agro- 

 myza coquilletti in wheat blades, but this is not likely, as most of the 

 leaves had been stripped from the stem." 



