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than wide; joints seven to nine quadrate when viewed from the side, 



the lower angles slighti3^ prominent; last joint about one and one-half 



times as long as wide, acute at tip ; thorax a little less than twice as long 



as wide; notauli complete; median lobe of mesonotum and inner half 



of lateral lobes rather finely shagroened; scutellum circular, margined 



latt^rally, shagreened like the thorax; wings of type 



lost; abdomen a little over twice as long as the thorax; 



first tergite about twice as wide as long, not distinctly 



striate, with a rather deep transverse depression 



across the middle; the dorso-lateral carinae rather 



prominent, second tergite about twice as long as wide 



at apical third, three-filths as wide as thorax across 



the tegulae, not striate at base; segments after the 



second more or less cylindrical, the third a little 



wider than long, wider than high, twice as long as 



and about as wide at the apex as the first; fourth 



and fifth tergites subequal in length and width, a 



^'TJ.'^^rtV^Tx!^^ little less than twice as long as wide, one-third longer 



MEAD.) Abdomen than the third; fourth a little wider basally than api- 



OF FEMALE. cally ; hist tergite triangular seen from above, a little 



longer than wide, half as long as the fifth. Shining black, legs 



reddish-brown, the coxae and femora darker; scape and pedicel 



yellowish-brown, the flagellum dark brown. 



TyjJC locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 



Ty2)e.—C&t. No. 24594, U.S.N.M. 



Redescribed from one specimen of the type series in the United 

 States National Museum. There are three specimens in the type 

 series but two of them, represejiting as many species, do not agree 

 with the original description. Each of them has the second tergite 

 distinctly less than twice as long as wide. They remain undescribed. 

 being in rather poor condition. 



3. PLATYGASTER FLORIDENSIS Ashmcad. 



Platygaster floridensis Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 19, p. 132, female.— Cresson, 

 Synopsis of Hymenoptera, 1887, p. 250.— Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1893, p. 324, pi. 13, fig. 1, female. 



Female. — Length 0.90 mm. Head shaped as in caryae, much wider 

 than the thorax; cheeks, occiput and vertex, shagreened, the latter 

 aciculate medially; rest of head more or less shining, shagreened, 

 faintly aciculate just above the antennae; antennae as in caryae; joint 

 five shorter than six, very wide, sharply produced below distally ; six to 

 nine transverse, as wide as five; thorax a little over two-thirds as wide 

 as long, strongly convex above, higher than wide, the tegulae far down 

 on the sides; pronotum shagreened; mesonotum; finely shagreened ; 

 notauli distinct on basal half of mesonotum; median lobe narrowly 



