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more finely sculptured; propodeum with a distinct neck and deep 

 lateral folds, but without a median carina, the area between the 

 folds strongh'^ sculptured like the mesoscutum, laterad of the folds 

 polished except posteriorly and rather thickly covered with whitish 

 pile ; anterior wings with the marginal and postmarginal veins sub- 

 equal, the stigmal slightly shorter than the post-marginal; abdomen 

 not longer than the thorax, subpetiolate, smooth and polished, the 

 first tergite occupying two-thirds to three-fourths of its length, sec- 

 ond and following tergites short and narrowing rapidly to the apex ; 

 ovipositor concealed. Head, thorax, and coxae aeneous, scape and 

 legs except coxae reddish testaceous, pedicel brownish, flagellum 

 black, wings hyaline, the venation brownish, abdomen purplish black 

 except basally where it is more or less brassy. 



Type-locality. — Nashville, Tennessee. 



Tyjye.—C^t. No. 20390, U.S.N.M. 



Four females reared at Nashville, Tennessee, b}'' W. H. La r rimer, 

 from the puparium of a Tachinid parasite of Leucania unipuncta, 

 probably Archytes analis, and recorded under Webster No. 11332, 

 Bureau of Entomology. Five specimens also from Guelph. Canada, 

 reared by A. W. Baker from Leucania unipuncta. 



EUTELUS BRUCHOPHAGl, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.75 mm. Head with fine, close, shallow thimble- 

 like punctures; viewed from above the head is more than twice as 

 broad as long; occiput concave; posterior orbits narrow and rounded; 

 ocelli in an obtuse triangle, the postocellar line longer than the 

 ocellocular; eyes short ovate, nearly circular; malar space long, equal 

 to about two-thirds the length of the eye; antennae inserted on a line 

 with the lower extremity of the eyes; scape cylindrical and not reach- 

 ing to the anterior ocellus, pedicel longer than the first fnnicle joints; 

 three ring-joints distinct; funicle five-jointed the joints subequal 

 and subquadrate; club three-jointed, ovate, considerably broader than 

 the funicle, the Avhole club about equal in Jength to the three pre- 

 ceding funicle joints. Mesoscutum, scutelhim and mesopleura 

 sculptured like the head ; propodeum obscurely wrinkled, more or 

 less shining, with distinct lateral folds and a rather Aveak median 

 carina ; marginal and postmarginal veins subequal, the latter a little 

 the shorter; stigmal vein distinctly shorter than the postmarginal; 

 abdomen about as long as the head and thorax, conic ovate, smooth 

 and polished, the first tergite a little shorter than the three follow- 

 ing combined. Head and thorax blackish green, abdomen blackish 

 with the first tergite brassy green ; coxae concolorous with the thorax ; 

 all femora dark brownish or blackish, paler at apex: median and 

 hind tibiae reddish brown, their apices together with the front 



