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tegulae reddish stramineous and concolorous with the propodeum; 

 fore tarsal joints blackish except at base, where they are pale, the 

 onychium, however, entirely black, their claws black with reddish 

 tips ; other legs colored like the fore legs except that the mid coxae are 

 stramineous at base and concolorous with the mid distal trochanters, 

 all tarsal joints blackish throughout and the claws mostly reddish; 

 wings yellowish, costa and stigma mostly black, apical fifth of fore 

 wings and apical two-fifths of hind wings blackish, including the parts 

 of veins in these arese — the fore- wings in addition with a blackish 

 band involving membrane and parts of veins of the fourth sixth of 

 the wing excepting the areola ; thorax smooth and polished, the dor- 

 sulum not at all impressed; abdomen smooth, polished and stram- 

 ineous except sixth, seventh and eighth segments, which are black 

 dorsally ; hypopygium not extending as far as the pygidium ; exserted 

 portion of ovipositor as long as the body, reddish black, the sheaths 

 black, tipped with stramineous. 



Type locality. — Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 



Type.— Cat No. 14552, U. S. N. M. 



Reared indoors, December 27, 191 1, from pupae of Parathyris 

 perspicilla Stoll, by Mr. August Busck. 



The cocoon of this parasite is made up inside the host's case of 

 loosely arranged white silk. 



