438 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. tol. 46. 



testaceous, the color of the thorax more or less mixed %vith brownish, 

 abdomen beyond the first segment black; ovipositor sheaths black 

 at base and apex, with a broad yellowish band between. 



Type-locality. — Brownsville, Texas. 



Type.— Cs^t. No. 16355, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Meteorus infesting Laphygma frugiperda. 



Five specimens reared by E. G. Smythe and recorded under Web- 

 ster No, 6446, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 



Family ELASMID^. 



ELASMUS APANTELI, new species. 



Plate 39, fig. 2. 



Female. — Length 2 mm. Antennae rather short, with pedicel and 

 funicle joints subequal, the club compressed and shorter than the 

 fumcle. Face with large round punctures on frons, vertex, and along 

 orbits, each puncture distinct and separate, the mtervening surface 

 smooth; facial impression distinct, not margined above, the surface 

 within the impression, as well as the clypeus and cheeks, without 

 punctures; occiput finely wrinkled, 



Pronotum and mesoscutum covered with long recumbent hairs, 

 beneath which the surface appears shining and slightly scaly; meso- 

 scutellum shining, but under strong magnification finely marked with 

 wavy lines; postscutellum triangular, the apex acute; pleurae, and 

 outer surfaces of all coxae, and femorse with fine aciculate lines. 

 Abdomen smooth and poUshed, as long as the head and thorax 

 together. Wings hyahne, densely pubescent. Spines on the dorsal 

 margin of the posterior tibiae arranged so as to form a double row of 

 diamond-shaped cells, the inner row consisting of three cells and the 

 outer of four; middle and anterior tibiae outwardly with a row of 

 similar spines along each margin, which on the median legs continue 

 as parallel lines to the apex of the second tarsal joint. 



General color black, with a bluish metaUic tinge on head and 

 thorax above; antennal flagellum brownish; postscutellum con- 

 spicuously yellowish- white ; all trochanters, apical third of anterior 

 femorae, extreme apex of median femorae, all tibiae, and more or less 

 of .all tarsi white, the color of the latter obscured by blackish hairs; 

 first two ventral segments of the abdomen more or less yellowish. 



Type-locality. — Memphis, Tennessee. 



Type— Csit. No. 16356, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Apanteles Tiamedi Viereck. 



Described from two specimens reared from cocoons of the above- 

 mentioned host by W. P. McConnell and recorded under Webster 

 No. 9600, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology, 



