274 Annals Entomological Society of America {[Vol. VIII, 
Descr.bed from one male, two females on tags “‘ Portland, 
Maine, 8-2-04. E. M. Patch. Bred from Eriopeltis festucae.”’ 
Type: Catalogue No. 19337, U. S. N. M., a female on a 
tag, two female hind legs and an antenna, one male head on a 
slide. 
4. Blastothrix longipennis Howard. 
This species is very close to B. sericeus Dalman (Mayr.), 
but differs in having funicles 1—2 shorter, a little longer than 
wide and shorter than the pedicel while funicles 1—2 in the 
European species are each distinctly longer than wide and 
subequal to the pedicel. The scapes are greatly dilated, 
the mandibles bidentate as in Anagyrus, the marginal vein 
twice longer than wide, the stigmal and post marginal subequal, 
each a little longer than the marginal. The pubescence is 
normal, not scale-like. The genus runs very near to Para- 
tetralophidea Girault, which has the marginal vein longer than 
the stigmal or postmarginal. 
5. Homalotylus obscurus californicus new variety. 
Female: Length, 1.50 mm. 
Runs close to obscurus obscurus Howard but differs in that the head 
is all blue black except the antennal insertions and the mouth which are 
orange yellow; the entire body 1s blue black except the mesopleurum 
which is reddish marked slightly with metallic, wholly metallic distad 
and the middle tarsi which are white and the middle femora which are 
reddish yellow; also funicle 1 is only slightly longer than wide. Frons 
narrow; head lenticular; mandibles 3-dentate. Hind tibial spur dis- 
tinct. Club obliquely truncate from base to tip, its segmentation very 
indistinct. Scutum with pubescence as in Blastothrix. Axillee with a 
slight carina between them. Body very densely, finely scaly. Tegulze 
brown yellow at proximal half or nearly, the rest black. The cross 
stripe of the fore wing is complete, fainter caudad and intersected by a 
narrow, transverse hyaline streak near caudal margin. Head with 
numerous scattered punctures. Marginal vein punctiform, the post- 
marginal and stigmal veins rather long, the former somewhat shorter 
than the stigmal, about five times longer than the marginal. 
From four females labelled ‘Whittier, Calif., Jl. 12, 1912. 
Ex. Chetlomenes sexmaculatus. P.H. Timberlake, Coll. 14627 B.” 
Type: Catalogue No. 19338, one female on a tag and a 
slide with head, fore wing and a hind leg (plus paratype 
antenne). Three paratype females on tags. 
