AUT. 4. NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA GAHAN. 5 



cheeks and behind the eyes, where the sculpture is more reticulate 

 and the pubescence confined to the upper portion being especiall}' 

 dense along the eye-margin; whole mesoscutum strongly pubescent, 

 the median lobe densely punctate, lateral lobes on outer face a little 

 less strongly sculptured, and the concave posterior portion rather 

 weakly sculptured; scutellum very finely reticulated and opaque 

 and for the most part without pubescence; axillae opaquely punc- 

 tate and pilose; propodeum weakly sculptured and without pubes- 

 cence except at the lateral angles which are pilose ; mesopleura with 

 fine shallow sculpture, destitute of pubescence on the greater part of 

 the mespimeron but strongly pubescent anteriorl}'^ and ventrally, with 

 an oblique stripe of very dense white pile extending from beneath 

 the anterior wings to the front coxae; legs conspicuously hairy, the 

 hind coxae outwardly above and below densely clothed with white 

 pile; abdomen weakly sculptured all over, bare above but conspicu- 

 ously hairy beneath. Head black with a slight bluish metallic tinge 

 on frons, the lower part of face and cheeks and the antennal grooves 

 within ferruginous ; scape ferruginous, the flagellum brownish black, 

 more or less tinged with ferruginous beneath; thorax mostly black, 

 faintly tinged with bronzy above, more strongly metallic beneath; 

 prothorax, except sternum, ferruginous; scutellum brownish ferru- 

 ginous at base; legs bronzy black, the anterior and middle trochan- 

 ters and femora beneath and the front tibiae on the inner side more 

 or less dark ferruginous, the middle femora above with a white spot 

 at the anterior apical angle ; middle tibial spur pale ferruginous : all 

 tarsi dark brown, spines on under side of middle tarsi black; fore- 

 wing medially with a broad blackish transverse band of dark col- 

 ored cilia which is margined proximally and distally by a narrow 

 contrasting border of white cilia; basad of this band the wing is 

 hyaline except for an elongated patch of dense dark cilia extending 

 obliquely distad and caudad from the base of the submarginal vein 

 but terminating before reaching the median transverse band ; apical 

 one-third of wing f usco-hyaline ; hind wings entirely hj'aline ; abdo- 

 men bronzy black, purplish at base; exserted tip of ovipositor yel- 

 lowish-brown. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type-locality. — Las Sabanas, Panama. 



Type.—CsLt. No. 24990, U.S.N.M. 



Type and one female paratype reared from a wax scale, Ceroplas- 

 tes, species, collected at Las Sabanas, Panama, by J. Zetek and I. 

 Molino in June, 1921, and bearing their number Z-1502. 



These type specimens were evidently reared from the same lot of 

 scale insects as was the type of Eupelmus cocidivonis Gahan, de- 

 scribed herewith. Four male Eupelmines evidently from the same 

 material were received, also. Owing to the great amount of antigeny 



