Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. IV OCTOBER-DECEMBER. 1916 Nos. 10-12 



DESCRIPTIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS CHALCID- 



FLIES 



By a. a. GIRAULT 



Dinarmus arizonicus, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.30 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings 

 hyaline, the coxae, femora, and the middle tibiae purplish ; rest 

 of legs and the scape yellowish-brown ; venation yellowish. 

 Thorax densely scaly punctate, the face with some larger 

 punctures and with silvery hairs. Propodeum scaly, the abdo- 

 men subglabrous. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 1, which 

 is a half longer than wide ; ring- joints equal ; funicle 6 quad- 

 rate, clypeus not striate, obtusely bidentate from a median ob- 

 tuse incision, the mandibles tridentate, the third tooth truncate. 

 Cephalic and caudal femora distinctly swollen, finely serrulate 

 beneath. Propodeum with a median carina and no others, 

 short at the meson, the spiracles round, no spiracular sulcus. 

 Segments 2-4 of abdomen incised at meson caudad, 2 largest 

 of the three, not occupying more than a sixth of the surface. 

 Abdomen conic-ovate, much produced ventrad at base. Parap- 

 sidal furrows half-complete. Prothorax normal. Venation as 

 in Pteromalus. Scape long. Scutellum simple. 



From one female in the United States National Museum, 

 labeled "Tropidogastra arisonensis Ashmead. Santa Rita 

 Mts., Arizona (Hubbard and Schwarz)." 



Type, Cat. No. 12728, U. S. Nat. Mus., the female on a tag, 

 the head and caudal legs on a slide. 



Entedon washingtoni, new species. ' 



Female. — Length, 1.85 mm. Differs from occidentalis and 

 the others in not having the apex of the caudal femur white 



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