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Achrysocharella obscurinotata new species. 



Female: Length, about 0.90 mm. 



Bright golden yellow, the wings hyahne, the antennae black except 

 proximal three-fourths of the scape dorsad; the other portion of the 

 scape and the pedicel dusky, the latter yellowish at apex. Valves of 

 the ovipositor extruded slightly, black. Abdomen above with four 

 small transverse dusky spots, along each side of the meson (thus four 

 pairs or eight in all), the first smallest, some little distance out from 

 base, the fourth at about middle and widest apart from its reciprocal, 

 about twice wider than long, 1 barely wider than long, absent in one 

 specimen. Scutellum with two black bristles distad, the scutum with 

 four in a rectangle, the caudal two longest. Mandibles with three 

 spreading teeth, long, pale, reddish at apex. Postmarginal vein sub- 

 equal in length to the stigmal. Propodeum noncarinate. Pedicel 

 nearly a half longer than wide, subequal to funicle 2, funicle 1 nearly 

 twice longer than wide; club joints nearly equal, each a little shorter 

 than the funicle 2, club 3 with a distinct terminal nipple which is not 

 half of its length. Flagellum Vvdth long, scattered hairs, some stout, 

 mostly very slender. Head and thorax scaly. Parapsidal furrows 

 incomplete. 



Described from two females captured by sweeping Solidago, 

 Eupatoria and so forth, September 27, 1915, at Hillmead, 

 Glenndale, Prince George County, Maryland. 



Types: Catalogue No. 19946, U. S. N. M., the above speci- 

 mens on tags, the two heads on a slide. 



Eupelminus coleopterophagus new species. 



Female: Length, 2.50 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is 

 extruded a fourth the length of the abdomen and is white centrally. 



Differs from meteori Gahan in having most of the thorax metallic; 

 from dryorhizoxenii Ashmead about the same; the body is slenderer 

 than with either of these species; from an identified female of epicasle 

 Walker in having the ovipositor somewhat shorter, the scutum entirely 

 metallic mesad, the legs lighter in places, the pedicel longer. 



Subapterous, the distal half of the small wings fuscous. Metallic 

 green, the abdomen dark purple, encircled at base by a broad silver}^ 

 band. The following parts reddish yellow: Scape, axilla?, basal third of 

 scutellum, lateral ridges of the scutum, propleurum, pro venter ce]:)halad, 

 mesopleurum cephalad, tarsi, cephalic femora and tibiee interiorly, tips 

 of tibiae and middle femora except above. White part of valves of the 

 ovipositor somewhat longer than either black part, the latter short. 

 Scutum without a median ridge. Funicle 1 somewhat wider than long, 

 3 and 4 longest, subequal to each other and to the pedicel, 2 twice 

 longer than wide, a little shorter than 3, 7 quadrate, <S slighth' wider 



