A. A. GIRAULT. 25 



Described from 13 males and 30 females mounted in bal- 

 sam and forming- a series of slides in the collections of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 kindly loaned for study by Dr. L. O. Howard and labelled 

 as follows : " Bred from Bean-weevil parasite material from 

 Beeville, Texas.— Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 30, 1909. D. T. 

 Fulloway." Five slides respectively — (1) 2 cf's, 6 9 's ; 

 (2) 1 cf , 9 9 's ; (3) 4 cJ"s, 4 9 's ; (4) 2 c^'s, 7 9 's and 

 (5) 4 cf's, 4 9's. 



Habitat. — United States : Beeville, Texas. 



7>;&^5.— Type No. 13,394, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D, C, 1 cf, 9 9 's in xylol-balsam (1 slide 

 bearing sublabel "(2)"). Cotypes. — Accession No. 44, 166 

 (4 cf's, 4 9's in xylol-balsam, 1 slide bearing sublabel 

 "(3)"), Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Ur- 

 bana, Illinois. 



5. ITTYS genus novum. (Figs. 8 and 9.) 



Normal to the subfamily. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Head normal, the ocelli in a triangle in the center 

 of the vertex, the lateral ocelli distant from the eye margins, 

 the eyes ovate, the antennae (fig. 8) inserted slig-htly ven- 

 trad of an imaginary line drawn between the ventral ends of 

 the eyes, 8-jointed, bearing a single large distinct ring-joint* 

 and a distinctly 3-jointed club which is ovate-acuminate ; 

 pedicel distinctly longer than the first funicle joint ; funicle 

 joints longer than wide or as long as wide ; antennae normal, 

 with no abnormally enlarged or swollen joints, sparsely 

 pubescent. Thorax distinctly shorter than the abdomen, 

 the body long ; parapsidal furrows distinct, complete, widely 

 separated. Abdomen conic-ovate, the sheaths of the ovi- 

 positor prominently exserted, prominent along the ventum 

 but the ovipositor itself not exserted ; abdomen longer than 

 the head and thorax combined. Fore wings (fig. 9) long, 

 moderate in width, regularly rounded at apex, with moder- 

 ately long marginal fringes which are about a sixth as long 



* Sometimes appearing as two (2) distinct joints. 



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