NO. 2279. QENERA AND SPECIES OF CHALCID-FLIES-OAHAN. 407 



ovipositor extending beyond the apex of abdomen fully half the 

 length of abdomen. Color uniformly pale yellowish, the underside 

 of head and thorax and the legs more pallid ; antennae faintly infus- 

 cated, nearly concolorous with the head; wings hyaline; ovipositor 

 sheaths fuscous. 



Male. — Length, 0.75 m. Similar to the female, but the greatly 

 enlarged scape, which is nearly as large as the head, is greatly flat- 

 tened (at least in dead 

 specimens) and very 

 finely granular ly 

 opaque; the first funi- 

 cle joint is apparently 

 not obliquely truncate 

 at apex, and the sec- 

 ond and third funicle 

 joints are subequal 

 and approximately 



. ■ i , T Fig. 5.— Antenna of male tumldiscapus ortiiopterae gahan. 



twice as long as broad. 



Type-locality. — Titusville, Florida. 



Type.—C^t. No. 21700, U.S.N.M. 



Nineteen females and three males reared from the eggs of an 

 orthoteron {Locustidae) deposited in the stems of grass, Andropogon 

 glomeratus. Eeared by Mr. G. G. Ainslie and recorded in the Bureau 

 of Entomology under Webster No. 10844. 



Type, allotype, and eight paratypes mounted in balsam. Twelve 

 para types, including one male, mounted on card points. 



