102 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



On account of the lack of furrows on the mesonotum it is 

 probable that a new genus will have to be erected for this 

 species. 



Ooencyrtus pyrillae, new species. 



Female. — Length 0.8 mm. Head brown, clypeal area red- 

 dish; antennas light brown, the club darker; pedicel slightly 

 longer than first three joints of funicle combined; first four 

 joints of funicle somewhat broader than long, joints 5 and 6 

 subquadrate ; club as long as funicle ; thoracic notum orange ; 

 pronotum apically, mesonotum apically and axillae white ; 

 pleurae and legs very light yellowish, posterior femora slightly 

 brownish ; abdomen dark brown. 



Type locality, Nagpur, India. 



Type, Cat. No. 20G25, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Received from the same source as the preceding and reared 

 from the eggs of Pyrilla aberrans December 19, 1910. 



Superfamily APOIDEA 



Chelostoma minuta, new species. 



Female. — Length 5 mm. Black, shiny, thinly clothed with 

 long, slightly ochraceous pubescence; head closely and rather 

 coarsely punctured, the punctures of the clypeus and supra- 

 clypeal area much finer; clypeus strongly bulging centrally; 

 whole central area of face from ocelli to clypeus strongly bulg- 

 ing ; antennae distinctly club-shaped, obscurely reddish beneath ; 

 second joint of labial palpi over three times as long as first; 

 third and fourth subequal in length, together about as long 

 as first ; first joint of maxillary palpi subglobose, shorter than 

 second ; third as long as 1 and 2 combined ; mesonotum with 

 punctures about as on vertex, medially the punctures sparser; 

 punctures of scutellum finer and closer; of metanotum 

 crowded ; propodeum at base irregularly longitudinally rugose, 

 elsewhere with fine crowded punctures ; punctures of meso- 

 pleurae about as on notum ; tegulae dark brown ; wings dusky, 

 nervures dark ; legs black ; abdomen finely, rather sparsely 

 punctured, apical margins of segments very narrowly obscure- 

 ly reddish ; venter coarsely punctured, scopa thin, dirty whitish. 



