1916] Miscellaneous Chalcidoid Hymenoptera 299 



divided along the meson, then by a second, very narrow white stripe, 

 thence black. The obscure cross-carina on propodeum here absent. 

 Antennas with the pedicel slightly longer than wide. 



Described from a single pair labelled "3816°1, March 6, 

 1886." Eastern United States. 



Types: Catalogue No. 19939, U. S. N. M., the pair on a 

 tag plus a slide bearing a female head, fore wing and hind 

 tibiae and a male antenna. 



Anastatus aureicorpus new species. 



Female: Length, 4.00 mm., excluding the ovipositor, Avhich is 

 extruded for a length equal to a half that of the abdomen. 



Reddish brown or orange, the club black, the scutum between the 

 lateral ridges and caudad of the cephalic triangular piece, dark metallic 

 purple; ovipositor valves soiled yellowish (but most of apical part 

 missing). Fore wings with a reddish brown stripe across them from 

 the bend of the submarginal vein to apex of stigmal, this stripe fading 

 near caudal margin. Funicle 1 quadrate, 2 subequal to the pedicel, 

 longest, thrice longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, each slightly shorter 

 than 2; 8 slightly longer than wide, larger than 2. Club short, obliquely 

 truncate from base of joint 3. Ocelli in small metallic spots. Caudal 

 coxae and funicles 1-3 darker. Postmarginal vein short, slightly longer 

 than the stigmal. Raised triangular piece of the scutum and the some- 

 what separated axillae more coarsely scaly than the rest of the body, 

 the scutellum with scattered, short black setce. Face above the antennae 

 with grayish, stiffish pubescence (longer along the eyes). Segments of 

 abdomen with straight caudal margins. Abdomen as long as the thorax. 



Described from one female on a tag labelled "Austin, Texas, 

 Carl Hartman" and reared from what appears to be a syrphid 

 puparium. 



Type: Catalogue No. 19940, U. S. N. M., the above speci- 

 men on a tag. 



Abbella subflava Girault. 



Five females reared as hyperparasites of Polynema eiitettexi, from 

 beet leaf-stems, August 28, 1915, Spreckels, Cafifornia. The cheeks 

 and sides of the thorax were dusky; otherwise like the type's and 

 probably a variety. 



Crataepus fletcheri Ashmead. 



As described. Cephalic tibiae with a strong, black, bifurcate tibial 

 spur. Antennae short; scape like a rather long pedicel, the latter some- 

 what shorter than the scape, slightly longer than wide at apex; funicle 

 joints all hemispherical and wider than long, 1 largest, 2 and 3 subequal; 

 club 3-jointed, not as long as the funicle, its first joint half, its last joint 



