NO. 2140. AMERICAN CHALCIDOID HYMENOI'TERA—GIRAULT. 43 



PSEUDIGLYPHOMYIA JLAVIFACIES, new species. 



Female. — LeJigth, 2 mm. 



Bright golden yellow, the wiiigs hyaline, the venation yellow, the 

 apex of the ovipositor black, the body marked as follows with dark 

 metallic green: Upper two-thirds of occiput, ocellar area, meson of 

 pronotum broadly, cephalic half of scutum, scutellum, propodeum, a 

 not broad stripe across abdomen with a distinct rectangular mesal 

 projection, thorax just latered of distal scutellum, metapleura and 

 four cross-stripes on abdomen at middle, all broadly, suffusedly joined 

 along the meson, the first at proximal fourth or more, the fourth 

 obliqued on each side from the meson, at about distal three-fourths; 

 preventer cephalad and between the coxae, postscutellum, mesopleu- 

 rum caudad of the tegulae, mesoventer, metaventer, and most of hind 

 coxae. Stripes of abdomen continued over the venter. Postmarginal 

 vein not quite so long as the stigmal. Propodeum scaly, with a 

 median carma and no others. Scape metallic green and the pedicel 

 above except at apex; the latter subequal in length to fmiicle 1 which 

 is somewhat longer than wide, funicle 2 quadrate. Mandibles 7- and 

 8-dentate. Hind tibial spurs not seen. 



Agrees in pattern with americana but the stripes on the abdomen 

 in that species are consohdated (or there is one broad stripe), the 

 postscutellum is not metallic nor the meson of pronotum nor the 

 mesopleurum and so on. 



Described from two females on a minutien mount in the United 

 States National Museum, labeled " 25°% Los Angeles Co., California." 



Types.— Cat. No. 19593, U.S.N.M., the above specimens and a 

 sUde with the head. 



Tliis species is doubtless congeneric with Cirrospilus Jlavicinctus 

 Riley. 



STENOMESIOIDEA, new genus. 



Female. — Belongs to the Ophelinini. Head normal, the antennae 

 inserted a little below the middle of the face, 10-jointed, with two 

 ring and club jomts. Pronotum conical but not long. Parapsidal 

 furrows complete, not reaching the pronotum. Axillae not advanced. 

 Scutellum simple, with a groove dorso-laterad, laterad of the two 

 bristles on each side. Propodeum with median and lateral carinae, 

 the latter at base for some distance a sulcus. Abdomen sessile, the 

 second segment occupying about a fourth of the surface. Marginal 

 vein long, a httle shorter than the submarginal, about twice the 

 length of the elongate stigmal, which is somewhat shorter than the 

 postmarginal. No true grooves on scutellum. 



Genotype. — Stenomesioidea mellea, new species. 



