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somewliat longer than the pedicel; club of antennre not thickened, but 

 the joints coalesced; thoracic notum with crowded punctures, those 

 on the propodeum thimble-like, those on the pronotum. and anterior 

 part of mesoscutum appearing more like reticulations; scutellum 

 toward apex finely lineolate, followed by a row of pits and a smooth 

 margin; propodeum with two carinas starting from the middle of 

 the base and diverging to touch points just back of the insertion of 



the hind coxae; starting at almost 

 the middle of each of these caringe 

 another carina extends to the side 

 of the arcuate opening from which 

 the petiole projects; propodeum at 

 apex medially with a few rugulas 

 and a few on the cephalic side of 



FIG.I.-FODAGRIONECMTHRUS. HlND FEMUR OF ^J^^ -^^^ ^f j Oining Of the tWO 



FEMALE. i . 



pairs of carinse; wings sub hyaline, 

 postmarginal vein almost twice as long as the stigmal; front and mid- 

 dle legs, including coxae, flavous; hind coxae about as long as the hind 

 femora, bluish, with flavous tips ; rest of hind legs flavous, with a bluish 

 spot on disks of femora on outer sides and a smaller brown spot on 

 the inner sides; hind femora with about five or six dark brown teeth 

 (three apical ones large, then one or two small ones, and then a large 

 one basad) (see fig. 1); abdomen 

 above bluish purple with a medial 

 brown spot, below flavous. 



3Iale. — Length about 3.5 mm. 

 Similar to the female ; the antennae 

 flavous, with the club somewhat 

 dusky; the hind femora with the 



, ,1 , -J Fig. 2.— PODAGRION ECHTHRUS. HiND FEMUE OF 



green spot on the outer side cov- ^^^^ 



ering most of the disk, the brown 



spot inwardly almost as large; hind tibiae dark brown; hind femora 



with three large teeth and basad of them a dentiform angle (See 



fig. 2.) 



Hahitat.—SsLntsi Lucrecia, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Described from specimens from a large series reared by ]\Ir. F. W. 

 Urich from the eggs of Mantis, species. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14811, U.S.N.M. 



Family EUKYTOMIDJC. 



EURYTOMA PIURJE, new species. 



Female. — ^Length about 2.5 mm. Black, the head and thorax 

 closely umbilicately punctured; peilicel short, hardly longer than 

 broad ; first joint of f unicle about twice as long as pedicel, the following 

 joints successively decreasing in length; club about as long as the last 



