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MONOBLASTUS CALIROJE, new species. 



Female. — Lcngtli, 5 mm. Related to Monohlastus punctifrons 

 Davis, from tlie original doscription of wldch it difTers as follows: 

 Coxae blackish or black basaliy, inclining to stramineous apicaJly, 

 trochanters stramineous, claws simple; wings blackish, stigma and 

 veins blackisli; front and clypeus rather indistinctly j)unctured, 

 black. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female, but with the scape pale 

 beneath. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14331, U.S.N.:M. 



Type-locality. — Vienna, Virginia, May 18, July 28, August 1, 1911, 

 jMirasite of Caliroa {Eriocampoides) cerasi Linna3us, the pear slug, 

 on authority of R. A. Cushman, who reared the specimens under 

 Quaintance No. 7148, Bureau of Entomology, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



This species may prove to be Trematopygus fusculosus Davis. 



NEOPIMPLOIDES, new genus. 



Related to Neopimpla Ashmead, from wliich it may be distin- 

 guished by the slitlike spiracles of the propodeum and by the pres- 

 ence of an areolet; eyes distinctly emarginate above the middle. 



Type. — Neopimploides syleptx, new species. 



NEOPIMPLOIDES SYLEPTiE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 8.5 mm. Mostl}^ smooth, shining, thinly pubes- 

 cent and yellow, ornamented with black spots: antennae 37-jointed, 

 llagel ilark brown above, reddish beneath and at tips, its first joint 

 nearly as long as the second and third joints combined, scape and 

 l^edicel yellow beneath, dark brown above; face feebly i)unctured; 

 labrum prominent, in outline almost an equilateral triangle, con- 

 cave; ocelli inclosed by a quadrate black mark; dorsulum similar to 

 the same in Tlieronia Holmgren, the prescutum*and ]iara])sides each 

 with a black mark; scutcl completely bounded laterally by a trench- 

 ant carina, propodeum areolated, its basal area confluent with the 

 areola, the combined area broader at apex than at base, petiolarea 

 Avider than long, hexagonal, area superoexterna open externally, 

 with a dull blackish spot, area dentipara completely inclosed, other 

 areas all wanting; empodia virtually as long as the third joint of 

 Jund tai-si, claws falcate; alternate segments of the nbdomon starting 

 with the first with a black spot on each side; wings transparent with 

 a smoky tinge. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14332, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Malebannur, Mysore, IniUa. Reared from Sylepia 

 derogata Fabricius, November 28, 1910, on authority of L. C role- 

 man, who furnished the type. 



