INSECUTOE INSCITI^ MHENSTRUUS 89 



Ilphestia cautella Walker. 

 Four specimens. 



Ephestiodes inderitella, new species. 



Gray, the median space black-shaded more or less completely ; 

 inner line whitish, broad, oblique, defined by a darker basal 

 ■area, forming a tooth in submedian fold, edged without by 

 Tjlackish, spreading into the median space; outer line whitish 

 •with distinct black inner edge, indented on discal fold and 

 slightly «n submedian fold ; discal dots black, separate ; a ter- 

 minal shaded black line, not reaching apex or tornus. Hind 

 -wing fuscous shaded, base of fringe paler. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type, female, No. 18243, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Bermuda, B. W. 

 1., April 34 (F. M. Jones). Also 4 females, paratypes, April 

 -5, 6, 17, and 23, all smaller than the type^ expanse, 13-14 mm,, 

 iDut otherwise simlar. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS CHALCIS 



(Hymenoptera, Chalcididcc) 

 By J. C. CRAWFORD 



Chalcis hammari, new species. 



Female. Length, 4 mm. Black, tegulse, front titbice, except 

 brown spot on rear, apices of front and middle femora, bases 

 and apices of mid tibise, small spot on outer side of hind 

 femora at apices, bases and apices of hind tibise, all yellow ; 

 tarsi reddish yellow ; face above rugoso-punctate, below finely 

 rugose ; clypeus with a smooth thickened apex wider medially ; 

 middle of face below antennal fovea smooth, bounded laterad 

 by a vertical carina ; carina along inner orbits very indistinct, 

 short, not reaching to level of insertion of antennae ; carina at 

 front of malar space with a branch diverted backward just 

 before reaching eye ; this branch running diagonally entirely 

 across malar space ; pro- and mesonotum umbilicately punc- 

 tured, the punctures separated by less than half a puncture 

 width and the interspaces finely lineolated ; the punctures finer 

 at front of middle lobe of mesonotum and on parapsidal areas 



