NO. 3533 CHALCID WASPS OF GENUS EURYTOMA — BUGBEE 469 



the lower half or two-thirds of the lateral surface of the sLxth tergum, 

 and in the deeper reddish-brown color of the abdomen and tegulae. 



29. Eiirytonia pissodis Girault 



Figures 1-5; Map 14 



Eurytoma pissodis Girault, 1917b, p. 88.— Graham, 1918, pp. 175-180; 1926, 

 pp. 26, 29.— Taylor, 1929, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 167-246; vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-86.— 

 Plumraer and Pillsbury, 1929, p. 29.— MacAloney, 1930, pp. 1-87.— Peck, 

 1951, p. 577. 



Types: 1 holotype female, no. 20969, 2 paratype females, and 1 

 male paratype, in the U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. 



Type locality: Minnesota, 



Distribution: United States: Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, California, Washington. 

 Canada: Ontario. 



Host: Pissodes strobi (Peck) (white pine weevil). 



Remarks: Additional characteristics that will help to distinguish 

 this species include the heavy sculpturing on the sixth tergum of the 

 abdomen that covers the dorsal as well as the lateral sm-face, the yellow 

 legs including the fore- and midcoxae, and the elongate ninth tergum. 



30. Eurytoma cleri Ashmead 



Map 15 



Eurytoma cleri Ashmead, 1894, p. 323.— Hopkins, 1899, pp. 345, 427, 429.— 

 Taylor, 1929, p. 37.— Peck, 1951, p. 576. 



Types: 1 female, no. 11206, in the U.S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D.C. is the only type material of this species known, so I 

 have designated it as the type. 



Type locahty: Morgan town, W. Va. 



Distribution: United States: Virginia, North Carohna, New York, 

 New Mexico, Cahfornia, Montana. 



Host: Clerid larvae in scrub pine (Ashmead, 1894). Pissodes 

 strobi (Peck) (Hopkins, 1899 and Taylor, 1929). Ips oregoni (Eich- 

 hoff), Dendroctonus monticolae Hopkins. 



Remarks: The greatly elongated ninth tergum averaging .42 mm. 

 (.30-. 54) and the narrow dorsal valves of the female genitaha in con- 

 junction with the characteristics noted in the key make this species 

 quite distinct. 



31. Eurytoma flavicrus, new species 



Figures 19, 29; Map 15 



Female: Head and thorax black; abdomen black changing to reddish 

 brown ventrally; antenna, tegula, legs including coxae yellow; occa- 



