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segment with longitudinal closely arranged stria?; other segments smooth. 

 Covered with short white pubescence which is quite abundant but in no place 

 hides the integument. Testaceous to brownish testaceous; some black around 

 the anterior ocellus and between the anterior ocellus and lateral ocelli ; antennee 

 with the flagellum brownish, scape and pedicellum brownish behind; posterior 

 corners of the dorsulum dark brown; superior face of metanotum very dark 

 brown; first abdominal segment, excepting the petiole, dark brown above; other 

 segments brownish, especially along the edge; posterior tib;u with a brownish 

 band near the base and another at the apex ; tarsi brownish, especially the apical 

 joints. 



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

 specimen, from lot appearing in cage containing both larvit and pupa? of Clisio- 

 campa disstria, September, 1902, E. S. Tucker. 



Meteorus noctivagus, n. sp. 



Related to agilis Cresson. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm.; ovipositor, 1.5 mm. .Head shining and polished, 

 finely sculptured in part; clypeus prominent, distinctly convex, polished; malar 

 space short, nearly as high as the pedicellum is wide; scape nearly as long as 

 the first joint of the flagellum, pedicellum longer than wide, first joint of the 

 flagellum a little longer than the second, the second and succeeding joints sub- 

 equal; antenna? twenty- six or twenty seven jointed. Thorax shining, minutely 

 sculptufed, parapsidal grooves deeply impressed, converging posteriorly and 

 terminating in a rugulose impressed space which is semilunar and occupies all 

 but the broad lateral margins of the posterior third ; mesopleura with an oblique 

 broad, shining, flat band that is almost parallel with the posterior margin of the 

 segment and separating a narrow linear rugulose impressed space along the pos- 

 terior margin of the segment from a triangular impressed rugulose space oii the 

 lower half of the segment ; scutellum polished, some reticulations on each side of 

 the disc of the scutellum ; postscutellum divided into oblong spaces by longitudi- 

 nalstriae; metathorax somewhat dullish, almost uniformly rugulose, nearly reticu- 

 late; wings tinted with brown, stigma nearly black, the nervures testaceous and 

 blackish; recurrent nervure interstitial or nearly; transverse median nervure in- 

 terstitial. Abdomen polished and shining; first segment, except the petiole, striate 

 but not regularly and longitudinally except on the posterior margin; the remain- 

 ing segments smooth and highly polished. Sericeous with short white hairs, 

 nowhere obscuring the integument. Black; antenna?, face below antennae, 

 cheeks along the eye, a spot on each side of vertex, lower half of propleura and 

 abdominal segments beyondthe second excepting the tip of the abdomen more 

 or less dark brown; second abdominal segment brownish testaceous; mandibles, 

 except tips, which are blackish, tegulte, legs, excepting middle and posterior 

 femora at tip, posterior tibias at tip and apical joints of tarsi, all of which are 

 more or less dark brown, testaceous; sheaths of the ovipositor very dark brown, 

 almost black. 



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

 Kansas. One specimen. At night, May, E. S. Tucker. 



Meteorus campestris, n. sp. 



May be the western race of Meteorus communis, to which it is related. The 

 uniformly dullish regulose metapleuraj separate this insect at once from that 

 species. 



Female. — Length, 5 mm. Cheeks and vertex shining, apparently impunc- 

 tate ; face dullish, minutely sculptured ; scape and pedicellum combined about as 



