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first abcissa of the radius. First abdominal segment finely, closely striated and 

 shining, the remaining segments smooth and polished. Face with a rather 

 abundant thin white pubescence, polished surfaces apparently without pubes- 

 cence. Black; clypeus, scape and pedicellum brown; mandibles except tips, 

 which are brown, and legs excepting the tarsi, which are more or less brownish, 

 testaceous. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality : Douglas county, Kansas. One 

 specimen. August, E. S. Tucker. 



Ischneutidea ? proteroptoides, n. sp. 



Ocelli and neuration of anterior wings as in Ischneutidea, posterior wing3 as 

 in Proterops. Perhaps this is entitled to generic rank. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. Head shining, rather closely, minutely punc- 

 tured or tessellate, a deep impression on each side of the clypeus near the eye; 

 antennse twenty-six jointed, scape nearly as long as the first joint of the flagel- 

 lum, pedicellum wider than long; malar space almost obsolete. Thorax smooth 

 and polished; dorsulum and pleura minutely, sparsely tessellate ; dorsulum with 

 parapsidal grooves faintly impressed; wings faintly clouded; nervures and 

 stigma blackish; first abcissa of the radius two-thirds the length of the second 

 abcissa, second abcissa of the cubitus a little shorter than the first abcissa of the 

 radius, transverse median nervure almost interstitial; radius in posterior wings 

 distinct and attaining the apex of the wing. Abdomen shining, smooth, mi- 

 nutely, rather closely tessellate. Thinly sericeous with white pubescence, the 

 pubescence nowhere sufficiently abundant to hide the integument. Yellow; a 

 large black spot surrounding and between the ocelli; antenniB, a broad median 

 band on anterior half of dorsulum, lower two-thirds of mesopleura, mesonotum, 

 part of metapleura and metanotum more or less black; disc of scutellum, apex 

 of mandibles, apical dorsal abominal segments in part, apical tarsal joints and 

 posterior legs with apex of tibite and all the tarsi more or less dark brown. 



T}pe: University of Kansas. Type locality. Douglas county, Kansas, 900 

 feet. One specimen. F. H. Snow. 



Microplitis croceipes Cresson. 



Sedgwick county, near Wichita, Kan., September, 1895; sweepings in peanut 

 vines. E. S. Tucker. 



Microgaster tuckeri, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 3 mm. Head dull, finely rugulose; clypeus somewhat 

 shining; scape nearly one and a half times as long as. the pedicellum, scape and 

 pedicellum combined a little shorter than the first joint of the flagellum. An- 

 tennje broken, more than thirteen jointed. Dorsulum dull, finely rugulose, 

 parapsidal grooves not deeply impressed ; scutellum dull, sculptured like the dor- 

 sulum; propleura shining, minutely sculptured; mesopleura smooth, greater 

 part dull, shining in the middle of the posterior half; metathorax somewhat 

 shining, rugulose, almost reticulate, an imperfectly formed longitudinal raised 

 line down the middle of the metanotum. Nervures and stigma varicolored from 

 light to dark brown; second cubital cell oval; first discoidal cell petiolate, the 

 petiole very short; submedian cell distinctly longer than the median cell, but 

 not as much longer as the length of the transverse median nervure. Abdomen 

 shining; first segment dullish, apparently minutely sculptured; remaining seg- 

 ments smooth, apparently impunctate and without sculpture that is not micro- 

 scopic. Uniformly sericeous with short white pubescence that does not obscure 

 the sculpture in any place. Legs and abdomen brownish yellow, the legs with a 



