THE TRIBE CHALCIDINI — BURKS 321 



compound eye ; f rontogenal suture straight ; combined widths of com- 

 pound eyes three-quarters width of interocular space at level of an- 

 tennal bases ; left mandible with two teeth, right with three ; diameter 

 of posterior ocellus slightly less than one-half width of interocellar 

 space ; head, from dorsal aspect, one-half as long as wide. 



Dorsum of thorax shagreened and provided with scattered shallow 

 punctures, pubescence sparse; anterolateral angles of pronotum 

 weakly carinate, anterior dorsal margin acarinate; parapsidal fur- 

 rows distinct; prepectus narrow, apex not quite reaching tegula; 

 mesoscutellum with a narrow apical lamina, which is only slightly de- 

 pressed on meson; metepisternum provided with deep punctures, 

 areas between punctures glabrous ; metacoxae glabrous, pubescent on 

 outer ventral side; metafemora minutely reticulated on outer dorsal 

 area, glabrous ventrad, sparsely setose, ventral margin with 16 to 20 

 small closely set teeth, basal one rounded (as in fig. 12, k) '^ inner 

 tooth acute. 



Surface of propodeum provided with small, rather irregular cari- 

 nae, areas between carinae minutely reticulated, spiracular openings 

 vertical; petiole slightly less than twice as long as wide, glabrous 

 on dorsal side, very lightly shagreened on ventral side, basal lamina 

 wide on ventral and lateral sides, wanting on dorsal side, minute 

 lateral carinae present ; gaster usually equal to length of metaf emur, 

 very slightly compressed ; abdominal segments 4 to 7 each with a single 

 sparse row of lateral setae ; eighth tergite lightly shagreened, almost 

 glabrous, spiracular openings round; cerci large, oval, located slightly 

 nearer posterior than anterior margin of epipygium and provided with 

 three setae ; apex of ovipositor sheath with a few short ventral setae. 



Male: Unknown. 



Type locality. — Arizona. 



Types. — Holotype, female, Sabino Basin, Santa Catalina Moun- 

 tains, Ariz., September 5, C. H. T. Townsend ; paratypes, Highrolls, 

 N. Mex., May 31, 1902, 1 female ; Sabinal, Tex., April 1910, Pierce and 

 Pratt, 1 female ; Alice, Tex., February 27, 1909, F. C. Pratt, 1 female. 

 Holotype and two paratypes deposited in the U. S. National Museum; 

 one paratype in Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Host. — ^Unknown. 



SPILOCHALCIS ODONTOTAE Howard 



FlQtJBE 9, h 



Spilochalcis odontotae Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 7, 1885; 

 Ent, Amer., vol. 1, p. 117, 1885.— Daxia Torhe, Catalogus hymenopterorum, 

 vol. 5, p. 385, 1898. — Chittenden, Remedies for insect pests, p. 4, 1901. — 

 Cotton, Ohio Nurs. and Orch. Insp. Bull. 7, p. 18, 1906.— Schmiedeknecht, 

 Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 40, 1909.— SMrrn, Ann. Rep. New Jersey 

 State Mus. for 1909, p. 640, 1910. 



