NO. 1020. NEW BEEF? AND ICIfNEVMON-FUES—VIERECK. 627 



mcsosternum by a carinate fold ; the third dorsal segment is perfectly 

 smooth at base, and the tcguliu are dark brownish or blackish. 



Type-locality. — East River, Connecticut. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14728, U.S.N.M. 



Labeled, "reared August 7, 1000, from Pyrausia futilalis, Chas. R. 

 Ely, No. 113." 



The allotype agrees fairly well with the description of the type. 



APANTELES (PSEUDAPANTELES) CHOREUTI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 nun.; related to Pseudapantclcs etlcTlxYieTeck 

 from wliich it differs m the yellowish scape; in the legs including 

 coxae bemg stramineous, except for the hind tibife, which are red- 

 dish and the hind tarsi which are brownish; in the brownish wings 

 with darker, brownish stigma and veins, with the radius about half 

 as long as the transverse cubitus; in the rather reticulatrly rugose 

 propodeum; in the rugulose first dorsal plate which is ap])arently a 

 little narrower at apex than at base, at least twice as long as wide at 

 base, and apparently wider m the middle than at base or apex; 

 second plate a little shorter down the middle than the first plate is 

 wide at apex, nearl}'" four times as wide at apex as long down the 

 middle, rather spmdle shaped, and longitudinally striate; third, 

 dorsal segment dullish and brownish except for a yellowish spot on 

 each side and a little longer than the second plate; first, second, and 

 most of third ventral segments as well as the prominent hypopygium 

 more or less stramineous. 



Type-locality. — Anglesea, New Jersey. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14729, U.S.N.M. 



The al]ot3'pe agrees fairly well with the type except in the sec- 

 ond plate wliich is about as long as the first is wide at apex, trape- 

 zoidal not spindle shaped and about tlirco times as wndo along its 

 straight apical edge as long down the middle; in the apex of the first 

 plate being distinctly narrower than the base and in the hypopygium 

 being dark brown to blackish while the rest of the venter is mostly 

 stramineous. 



Both specimens are labeled, "reared in July from CJior cutis cardinella, 

 W. D. Kearfoot, No. 60." 



SPATHIUS BRUNNERI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.75 mm.; superficially similar to Spaihius 

 unifascintus Ashmead from which it may readily bo distinguished by 

 the better impressed stornauli which are not bounrled below by a 

 carina; prothorax blackish throughout; first dorsal segment apically 

 and disk of second doi-sal segment mostly reddish brown; j)j)le por- 

 tions of logs mostly rather stramineous, the tai-si rather reddish 

 stramineous, except tip of onychium, claws and empodium which are 



