NEW PARASITIC CHALCIDOIDEA — GAHAN 483 



tinctly a little longer and less robust, the first funicle joint a little 

 longer than broad, the second and third joints about as long as broad, 

 the fourth and fifth somewhat broader than long. It may be dis- 

 tinguished at once from americana Girault by the fact that the 

 distance between the posterior ocelli is distinctly longer than the 

 distance between the lateral ocellus and the eye margin. 



Female. — Length 3.4 mm. Face medially weakly shagreened, 

 somewhat shining except immediately below the antennal fossae; 

 sides of face with strong striae, which converge at the anterior 

 margin on either side of the clypeus; frons, vertex, occiput, temples, 

 and cheeks strongly shagreened ; carina separating face from cheeks 

 strong and continued upward along the posterior eye margin nearly 

 to top of eyes, the space between it and the eye very finely trans- 

 versely striated; carina separating cheeks and temples from occiput 

 also strong and bordered by a foveolate groove; ocellocular line 

 equal to about one and one-half times the diameter of an ocellus, 

 about two-thirds as long as postocellar line. Thorax dorsally sculp- 

 tured like the head ; prothorax strongly convex, longer than mesoscu- 

 tum, its dorsal aspect separated from the pleural aspect by a weakly 

 carinate line; parapsidal grooves entirely absent; scutellum with a 

 distinct transverse ridge or fold at about its apical third, this fold 

 sometimes interrupted medially ; propodeum with a strong trans- 

 verse carina, the area in front of this carina divided at the middle 

 by a short median longitudinal carina and each half again divided 

 by a curved carina about halfway between the spiracle and the 

 median line, the area behind the transverse carina nearly uniformly 

 coarsely longitudinally striated. Postmarginal vein about twice as 

 long as stigmal and about three-fourths as long as marginal. Ab- 

 domen distinctly longer than head and thorax, acuminate at apex; 

 first tergite nearly circular and perfectly smooth, second about one- 

 fourth as long as first and also smooth, third approximately twice as 

 long as second and distinctly finely reticulated; fourth distinctly 

 longer than the three preceding combined and uniformly finely re- 

 ticulated, fifth and sixth subequal, each about as long as the third and 

 sculptured like the fourth; seventh a little longer than the sixth, 

 sharply triangular; ovipositor tip barely exposed. Scape, mandibles, 

 palpi, tegulae, trochanters, apical one-third to one-half of all femora, 

 all tibiae, and all tarsi testaceous, the tarsal claws dark; abdomen 

 basally beneath more or less brownish ; wings hyaline, the venation 

 brownish testaceous ; remainder of insect dull black. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Uvalde, Tex. 



7^?/;?e.— U.S.N.M. no. 61448. 



Described from five females, said to have been reared from As- 

 phondylia opuntiae Felt in April 1928 by L. H. Hitchcock. 



