— I2b — 



Tetralopha baptisiella, n. sp. 



Expands 21 mm. Tongue gray in front. Palpi gray, fuscous brown in front. 

 Head and thorax nearly white with intermingled russet fuscous scales. Abdomen light 

 gray at base, beyond with segments ringed anteriorly with fuscous. Wings, (^ light fus- 

 cous with a slight ocher tint, heavily marked with darker fuscous on the costal region, 

 running from a point on costa at base, along and parallel with the inner margin to 

 outer cross line forming a triangular space,_ the lighter ground color showing distinctly 

 between the veins. Inner cross line obsolete, or showing in a faint curved gray 

 shading. A black point of raised scales at middle of basal field. Outer cross line ^ 

 out ; sub-parallel with outer margin except a bend outward towards posterior angle, 

 straight at costa, otherwise evenly dentate wavy. On the middle field just out from 

 the first cross line is a cross line of lengthened scales whiter than the ground color. 

 Outer field fuscous, lighter posteriorly and at veins. A marginal row of lengthened 

 black points. Frmge grayish fuscous interlined. Hind wings fuscous with faint in- 

 dications of outer lighter band. O with lines as in the (^ but with basal field much 

 lighter, the central cross band of long scales almost white, and the rest of the wing 

 washed with russet ocher, the veins on the outer middle field blackish. A narrow 

 gray shading next the marginal black points. Hind wings as in (^'. Beneath, (^\ O, 

 fuscous on costal half of fore wings, light ocher fuscous otherwise with faint outer 

 band on all wings. 



2 C?d^» 299. Hab.— Mo., N. Y. Raised by Miss Murtfcldt on Baptisia 

 tincloria. 



Description of a New Proctotrupid. 



By William H. Ashmead. 

 Jacksonville, Florida. 



Since the publication of my "Studies on the N. A. Proctotrupidae," 

 in going over my Braconids, two specimens of a very remarkable form in 

 this family were discovered belonging to a genus not yet noticed as oc- 

 curring in the North American fauna. The genus is recognized by the 

 brevity of the otherwise fully developed wings, the elongated prothorax 

 and its rather prominent eyes and triangular head. The species may be 

 identified from the following description : 



VII. MYSTROPHORUS, Focrster. 



I. Mystrophorus americanus, n. sp. 9- Length .25 inch. Color: Head, 

 thorax and legs, brownish-red ; head above dusky ; eyes dark or blackish ; antennae 

 dusky toward tips, while the abdomen is polished black. The head when viewed 

 from the front is triangular, finely, regularly punctate. The antennre are lo-jointed, 

 the third joint of which is as long as the 4th, 5th and 6th joints together. The pro- 

 thorax is much elongated with parallel sides, narrower and more than thrice longer 

 than the mesothorax, and microscopically sculptured. The short, spoon-shaped 

 wings are hyaline, excepting a broad, smoky, transverse band across fore wings, 

 broad enough to include stigma and stigmal vein. The venation is exactly as in tlie 

 genus Gouiozus. 



Hab. — Florida. Described from two specimens, captured in the Spring ot 18S6. 



