NO. 2035. NEW HYMENOPTERA FROM NORTH AMERICA— OAHAN. 437 



Described from 14 specimens, 12 females and 2 males, reared by 

 E. G. Smythe from the above-mentioned host and recorded under 

 Webster No. 6446, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department 

 of Agriculture; also two specimens from Memphis, Tennessee, 

 recorded under Webster No. 9600. 



This species differs in some respects from the type species of 

 Dibrachys, and should perhaps form a new genus. It runs to 

 Dihrachys in Mr. Kourdumoff's recently pubUshed revision of the 

 subfamily Pteromalinse,^ however, and for the present is placed in 

 that genus, where it should be easily recognized by the characters of 

 clypeus and cheeks. 



Family ENCYRTID^. 



Siabfamily E:XJI»E]XiM:iK3".^E. 

 EUPELMINUS METEORI, new species. 



Female. — Length 2.8 mm. Head above shining with fine, irregular, 

 transverse wrinkles above the ocoUi, the sculpture becoming slightly 

 fainter and more reticulate on the frons ; temples and cheeks strongly 

 aciculate-punctate, and the face from upper angle of the scrobes 

 downward rather coarsely rugoso-punctate, the area within the 

 scrobes and below more finely so; eyes bare. Antennse 13-jointed, 

 clavate; scape not attaining the anterior ocellus; ring-joint slightly 

 longer than broad; first funicle joint twice as long as the ring-joint 

 and about equal to the pedicel, the second equal to or a little longer 

 than the first, broadening slightly to the apex, the following funicle 

 joints shorter and thickening gradually; club compressed, sHghtly 

 longer than the two preceding funicle joints combined, the sutures 

 more or less obhque; maxillary palpi short and somewhat flattened 

 toward apex. Mesoscutum hollowed out, the median lobe very nar- 

 row, almost linear and less than two-thirds the length of the meso- 

 scutum, lateral lobes elevated, their lateral margins sharp and their 

 inner faces faintly wrinkled and shining; scutellum as long or a little 

 longer than the median lobes of the mesoscutellum and forming a high, 

 sharp, smooth ridge; pleurae and mesosternum \vith fine, more or less 

 reticulate sculpture, the lines becoming deep striations along the 

 dorso-posterior margin. Wings reduced to small scale-like append- 

 ages which do not extend beyond the apex of the propodeum. Abdo- 

 men about as long as the thorax, convex above, slightly compressed 

 from the sides, the segments above and below finely reticulated; 

 ovipositor exserted one-third the length of the abdomen. 



Head dark above, the face, cheeks, and temples with strong brassy 

 reflections; apices of mandibles, palpi, antennal pedicel, and flagellum 

 black; scape, thorax, legs, and first dorsal abdominal segment reddish 



» Revue Russe d'Entomologie, vol. 13, 1913, p. 2. 



