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Male. — Length 5.5 mm. Antennae 34-jointed in the allotype; mid- 

 dle coxae concolorous with the propodeum ; otherwise like the female. 



Type-locality. — East Wareham, Massachusetts. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21609, U.S.N.M. 



One female and three male specimens reared by Dr. H. J. Franklin 

 in cages containing breeding material of the cranberry fruit-worm, 

 Mineola vaccinii Riley, and probably parasitic on that insect. Two 

 male paratypes deposited in the collection of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, Amherst, Massachusetts. 



Subfamily Microgasterinae. 



APANTELES STAGMATOPHORAE, new species. 



This species is easily recognized by the unusually broad ovipositor 

 sheaths, by the flattened aspect of the thorax, and the smooth pol- 

 ished propodeum which lies in nearly the same plane as the scutel- 

 lum and mesoscutum. 



Female. — Length 3.1 mm. Black; palpi and legs, except coxae, 

 reddish testaceous, the posterior legs somewhat darker than the 

 others; wings hyaline, the stigma and veins dark brown, the former 

 nearly black. Antennae nearly as long as the body, the first flagel- 

 lar joint about three times as long as thick, apical joints nearly twice 

 as long as thick ; occiput polished, remainder of the head subopaque 

 with moderately close weak punctures ; distance between the eyes at 

 antennae fully one and one-half times the distance from antennae 

 to base of clypeus; clypeus about twice as broad as long and dis- 

 tinctly separated from the face by a groove ; malar space about equal 

 to the median length of clypeus ; thorax compressed dorso-ventrally, 

 much broader between the tegulae than the dorso-ventral height, 

 posterior two-thirds of the mesoscutum, scutellum and the propo- 

 deum lying in the same plane or nearly so ; mesoscutum shining with 

 weak moderately close punctures; scutellum more sparsely and 

 weakly punctured, nearly smooth; triangular plate each side of the 

 scutellum smooth and polished with the suture at base broad and 

 divided by only three or four weak carinae ; true metanotum smooth ; 

 mesopleurae weakly punctate anteriorly, for the most part pol- 

 ished impunctate; mesosternum flattened and nearly impunctate; 

 propodeum without median longitudinal or transverse carinae and 

 except for a few aciculations at the apical middle, practically smooth 

 and polished or with only subobsolete punctures ; hind coxae smooth ; 

 transverse part of discoideus and subdiscoideus effaced; abdomen 

 about as long as the thorax and a little narrower, somewhat com- 

 pressed dorso-ventrally; first tergite slightly broader at apex than 

 base, its basal width about equal* to half the width of propodeum at 

 apex, subopaque with very fine obscure aciculations interspersing 



