NO. 2035. NEW HYMENOPTERA FROM NORTH AMERICA— Q AH AN. 443 



perfectly smooth and polished, the region below the eyes faintly 

 punctured; antennal scape not quite reacliing the front oceUus; 

 pedicel longer than joints 1 and 2 of the funicle combined; funicle 

 five-jointed, the joints subequal, not longer than broad; club four- 

 jointed, joint 1 much longer than the last funicle joint, but smaller 

 than the following club joints, which are equal and subquadrate. 

 Mesoscutum faintly reticulated anteriorly, the disk perfectly smooth 

 and highly polished with a very few small round punctures ; scutellum, 

 postscuteUum, and true metanotum smooth, without punctures ; pro- 

 podeum as described; anterior margin of the forewing to the apex of 

 the venation with only a few short marginal ciha, beyond with long 

 cilia, the longest being twdce tlie mdth of the wing. First segment of 

 the abdomen nearly twice as broad as long, with coarse longitudinal 

 striae, second segment similarly striate at base and much more faintly 

 so beyond to the apex. 



Head and thorax sMning black. Antennae, palpi, legs, including 

 coxae, and the whole abdomen reddish yellow. Antennal pedicel and 

 club shghtly fuscous. 



Male. — Antennae fuscous, submoniliform, without a distinct club; 

 pedicel globose, thicker but not longer than the fost funicle joint; 

 funicle joints 1, 2, and 3 slightly larger than the following; apical joint 

 of the club as long as the two preceding joints combined; abdomen a 

 little shorter than in the female and distinctly fuscous on the apical 

 half. Otherwise like the female. 



Type-locality. — Manliattan, Kansas. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16361, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Blissus leucopterus. 



Described fi'om over 40 specimens received from J. W. McCulloch 

 and reared by him from the eggs of the Cliinch Bug. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 39. 



Fig. 1. Ewphoriana uniformis, female. 



2. Elasinus apanfeli, hind tibiae of. 



3. Eumicrosoma benejica, female. 



