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METEORUS TRACHYNOTUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. Related to Meteorus incompletus Pro- 

 vancher, from which it may be distinguished by the antennae, which 

 are at least as long as the body, by all the joints of the flagel being 

 longer than wide; by the almost entirely yellowish head; by the 

 nonprominent prescutum; by the coarse carinje of the propodeuni; 

 by the poorly defuied basal area of the dorsal aspect of the propodeuni; 

 b}' the poorly defined petiolarea; by the channeled posterior face of 

 the propodeuni, which channel is more or less bounded by trenchant 

 carinas; b}^ the pro thorax being stramineous; by the mesosternum 

 and somewhat more than the lower half of the mesopleurfe being pale 

 brown; b}' the hind tibiae and tarsi being more or less infuscated; by 

 the second and third dorsal segmeiits of the abdomen being pale to 

 dark brown; by the sides and venter of apical half of abdomen being 

 brownish; and by the exserted portion of the ovipositor being some- 

 what shorter than the abdomen. 



i/aZe.— ^Closely resembles the female; its propodeuni hardly chan- 

 neled; its second dorsal segment yellowish. 



Type.— C'dt. No. 14315, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada. 



Type and paratypes reared June 20 and July 3, 1911, in connection 

 with rearings of Tortrix fumiferana. Received b}^ the Bureau of 

 Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, from Dr. C. 

 Gordon Hewitt. In two female paratopotypes the mesothorax is 

 almost entirely black or blackish; in one the pro thorax is mostly 

 blackish. 



MICROBRACON HYSLOPI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3.5 mm. Related to Microhracon cooTci (Ash- 

 mead), from which it differs in the almost entirely black head; in the 

 dorsiilum, pro thorax, and scutel being more or less reddish; in the 

 costa of the stigma being stramineous, in the furrow of the iiieso- 

 pleurse being more distinct and reddish; in the legs being blacldsh 

 excepting the fore femora and tibiae and part of mid and hind tibiae, 

 ' which are more or less stramineous; in the better defined triangular 

 area of the first segment, which is black and flanked basally by red- 

 dish pieces; in the color pattern of the rest of the abdomen,which 

 mimics the pattern in 31. nigridorsum (Ashmead) and consists in the 

 second segment being almost entirely reddish, in the disks of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments being black, bounded laterally by 

 reddish, rest of the abdomen above mostly reddish; in the second 

 segment being rather rugose in the middle, elsewhere as the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments, delicately sculptured, rather pebbled, but 

 still polished, and in the second suture being more distinct; oviposi- 

 tor approximately as long as the abdomen. 



