NO. 1880. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW in MENOPTERA— CRAWFORD. 5 



Type.—C&t. No. 14342, U.S.N.M. 



Differs from the description of ohscurus Westwood in color and in 

 the apex of the antennae being concoloroiis with the rest, in the darker 

 legs, etc., from that of olenus Walker in tlie dark antennae and the 

 color. 



Specimens wliich I consider olenus Walker are Avithout the lateral 

 carinae on the propodeum. 



PODAGRION REPENS Motschulsky. 



Female. — Head and mesonotum with shallow almost tliimblelike 

 punctures; mesopleurac with similar punctures, the posterior half 

 with finer ones; metapleurae horizontally striate; propodeum ■\nth 

 an inverted V-shaped carina, the surface with fine tliimblelike punc- 

 tures; posterior coxae about as long as their femora, the basal end 

 swollen; abdomen subsessible; antennae vnih. one rmg joint and the 

 club not greatly swollen. 



The type consists of about 20 specimens on one card, and the above 

 notes are from the type-material. 



Family ^IISCOGASTERID^. 



Genus LELAPS (Haliday) Walker. 



Laelaps Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 5, 1898, p. 184. 

 Dilaelaps Schulz, Spolia Hym., 1906, p. 144. 

 Stenopisthia Strand, Societas Ent., vol. 25, 1910, p. 25. 



The two origmal references to this genus are: Walker in Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, 1843, p. 47, and Hahday in Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., vol. 3, pt. 4, p. 299, said to have been issued in 1843. 

 However, on page 237 of that volume, there is a footnote dated 

 July 14, 1844, and the receipt of part 4 was acknowledged by the 

 Entomological Society of France at the meeting of September 10, 

 1845, so that tliis part must have been issued after July, 1844, and 

 in all probability was not published until the beginning of the 

 year 1845. It appears that the genus should be credited to Mr. F. 

 Walker. 



In both of these places the name is spelled Lelaps, and tliis speUing 

 was changed to Laelaps by Dalla Torre. It is tliis latter speUing 

 wliich is preoccupied, and the names proposed by Schulz and Strand 

 are therefore unnecessary. 



Family ENCYRTID/E. 



ANASTATUS VUELLETI, new species. 



Female. — Length 2.25 mm. Head var\'ing shades of blue and 

 green, thorax very dark blue-green, in some lights appearing black, 

 or violaceous; abdomen aeneous; apical half of scape testaceous, the 

 basal portion metallic; pedicel metaUic green, rest of antemwe brown: 



