INSECUTOR INSCITI.^ MENSTRUUS 101 



NINE NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA 



By J. C. CRAWFORD 

 •Superfamily CYNIPOIDEA 



Hexaplasta minuta, new species. 



Female. — Length 0.82 mm. Similar to H. zigzag but smaller 

 and with darker legs and the antennae with the pedicel and 

 first joint of funicle subequal in length and joints 2 to. 5 of 

 funicle subglobose (see figure) ; elevation of scutellum long 

 and narrow. 



Type locality, Nashville, Tennessee. 



Described from four specimens reared from a scavenger on 

 Leucania unipnncta by W. H. Larrimer under Bureau of En- 

 tomology (Webster) No. 11332. 



Type, Cat. No. 20473, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Hcxuplasta minuta, antenna. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 



Tetrastichus pyrillae, new species. 



Female. — Length 0.8 mm. Light brown, the pleura lighter 

 in color, base of abdomen and legs testaceous; pedicel and 

 first two joints of funicle subequal in length, third joint short- 

 er; club three-jointed, about as long as joints 2 and 3 of funi- 

 cle combined; one ring joint visible; head thin anterio-posteri- 

 orly ; mesoscutum anteriorly with many longitudinal rugae ; 

 laterally and posteriorly smooth, the posterior portion some- 

 times wrinkled ; scutellum smooth, without furrows. 



Male. — Length 0.75 mm. Similar to the female, except in 

 secondary sexual characters and lighter in color. 



Type locality, Pusa, India. 



Type, Cat. No. 20(324, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Described from material received from the Imperial Bureau 

 of Entomology of India, reared August 31, 1913, from eggs of 

 Pyrilla aherrans. 



