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APHIDIUS COLEMANI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 ram. Related to ApMdius rosse Haliday, from 

 wliicli it may be distinguislied as follows: Mostly blackish; head 

 uniformly blackish, dypeiis, edge of malar space, and mouth stramin- 

 eous; flagel 14-jointcd; mesonotum black; notauli virtually want- 

 ing; scutel black, ])rothorax yellowish; propodeum black, with a 

 diamond-shaped areola and a petiolarea, the areola adjoinmg four 

 other areas; second, third, and fourth segments largely blackish, 

 first segment partly browTiish, apical half of abdomen mostly yellow- 

 ish, sheaths pale. 



Male. — Flagel 17-jointed; abdomen almost entirely black, the 

 first segment brownish; otherwise essentially as in the female. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14313, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Bangalore, Mysore, India. 



From Aphis sp. on tobacco, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



A study of the male paratopotypes shows that the flagel may be 

 16 or 17 jointed with the end joint in the 16-jointed specimens nearly 

 as long as the precedmg joint or decidedly longer. 



Named for Mr. L. C. Coleman. 



METEORUS ARCTUCIDA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm. Related to Meteorus obfuscatus Nees, 

 from which it differs chiefly as follows: Antennae 31-jointed, all 

 joints of the flagel distinctly longer than wide, brownish; ocelli 

 apparently a little nearer the eye margin than to each other; head 

 brownish ; occipital carina rather angulate in the middle and at most 

 nearly twice as far from lateral ocelli as the latter are from each 

 other; thorax mostly bro\vnish-straniineous, prescutum separated 

 from the parasides by sculpture rather than impressed notauli, 

 prescutum with a median longitudinal line of sculpture; stigma 

 dark throughout ; propodeum almost uniformly reticulate throughout, 

 concave posteriorly; apical third of hind tibiae and their tarsi more or 

 less infuscated; stigma almost entirely dark, fuscous; fossae of first 

 segment poorly developed, post petiole striate throughout, petiole 

 stramineous, post petiole rather brownish; second and tliird segments 

 mostly rather stramineous, rest of dorsum of abdomen blackish 

 down the middle, strammeous laterally ; exserted portion of ovipositor 

 nearly as long as the abdomen. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



Type.—C.a.i. No. 14314, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Agumbi, Mysore, India, from Arctiid larvae, Sep- 

 tember 14, 1910, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



