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abdomen black, except the connate second and third tergites, which 

 are ferruginous; ovipositor sheaths brown. 



Hale. — Like the female except as follows: Eyes much smaller, the 

 face broader at base of clypeus than long; malar space nearly or quite 

 equal to basal width of mandibles; antennae 31-segmented, pale yel- 

 low on basal half, dusky beyond; nervulus practically interstitial 

 with basal vein; stigma mostly pale mth a brownish blotch posteri- 

 orly. 



Type locality. — Salineville, Ohio. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24964, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female and one male, both from vSalineville, 

 Ohio, and bearing a label with Ashmead's manuscript name. Pro- 

 teins oJiioensis. There is one other male specimen froln Ohio in the 

 National Collection; this is not included in the type series. I have 

 also seen eight specimens of this interesting species in the Cornell 

 University collection: three of these are from Ithaca, New York; five 

 from Salineville, Ohio; a female specimen in this collection has com- 

 plete antennae; they are 25-segmented, are slightly thickened toward 

 apex and almost entirely pale yellow, being only a little infuscated at 

 apex. A male of angustipennis was included by Cresson in his type 

 series of dimidiatus; it bears paratype No. 1770.6 and is from 

 Pennsylvania. 



12. METEORUS FUMIPENNIS, new species. 



Very closely allied to angustipennis, but distinguishable at once by 

 the differences noted in the table to species. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Head transverse, but full behmd the 

 eyes, distinctly broader than thorax; face broader at base of clypeus 

 than long, very minutely closely punctate laterally; palpi very 

 slender; malar space about half as long as basal width of mandibles; 

 antennae slender, 29-segmented, the apical segments shortened, but 

 somewhat longer than broad; basal flagellar segment at least three 

 times as long as thick; vertex smooth and polished, ocelli very small, 

 the ocell-ocular line nearly three times as long as greatest diameter 

 of an ocellus; thorax unusually slender, much narrower than head, 

 and at least three times as long as its greatest breadth; mesonotal 

 lobes well set off by sharp parapsidal furrows, the lateral lobes meeting 

 at posterior margin of mesoscutum; the depression behind middle lobe 

 of mesonotum rugulose and opaque; remainder of mesoscutum smooth 

 and shining, with only a few scattered indistinct punctures ; disk of scu- 

 tellum small, triangular, slightly convex, smooth and shining; propo- 

 deum rugulose, with a median, two sublateral, and two transverse 

 weak carinae marking off four rather large areas on the dorsal face, 

 the two anterior areas narrow, transverse; propleura, mesopleura, 

 except a small medial polished area, and metapleura entirely, rugu- 



