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PARASITIC CHALCIDOID FLIES— TIMBERLAKE. 



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Table of measuronents of cclifornicus. 



5. HOMALOTYLUS MEXICANUS, new species. 



Plate 38, fig. 5. 



FewaZf.— Agreeing closely in structural characters with jlaminins 

 (Dalman) and termiimlis (Say), the head more like the former 

 species although not quite so long as compared with the width, and 

 thickest fronto-occipitally just opposite the middle of the eyes. 

 Antenna! scape slender as in temvinalis, the pedicel one-third longer 

 again than the fu'st funicle joint; funicle joints all longer than thick, 

 the first joint fully twice as long as thick, the following three about 

 a half longer again than thick, the last two slightly shorter than the 

 preceding; club not quite as long as the three preceding joints com- 

 bined. Postmarginal vein nearly as long as the stigmal. Length of 

 body, 1.73; length of head, 0.585; width of head, 0.545; widtli of 

 vertex,0.129; length of eye, 0.47; width of eye, 0.26; length of antenna, 

 1.51; width of mesoscutum, 0.59; length of forewing, 1.49; v/idth of 

 forewing, 0.545 mm. 



Head, underparts of thorax, most of pronotum, and venter of 

 abdomen about raw sienna (R.), the fronto vertex and face shiny 

 with a slight bronzy luster, the postorbital region slightly greenish; 

 collar of pronotum and mesoscutum brow^lish black with a slight 

 greenish luster; axillae buckthorn bro\\Ti (R.), the scutellum yellow 

 ocher (R.); mesoscutum, propodeum, and dorsum of abdomen 

 shining blackish brown; tegulae white with posterior margin blackish 

 brown. Antenna brownish black, with the last two funicle joints 

 and the club yellowish white. Front and middle coxae, femora 

 and middle tibiae yellow ocher (R.), the coxae and front femora 

 slightly suffused with brownish, the basal half of middle tibiae 

 considerably more brownish; the front tibiae and tarsi, and hind 

 coxae and femora on outer side rather pale yellowish brown; hind 



