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Genus Protapanteles, Ashraead. 

 207. Protapanteles parallelis, n. s]). 



9 . Length 2 inm. ; ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the 

 abdomen. Bhick, smootli, shining ; tlie mesonotum, at the most, 

 faintly, sparsely and microscopically punctate, the scutellum im- 

 punctate. Face with a fine whitish pubescence. Antennte a little 

 longer than the body, dark brown, the scape black. Mesopleura 

 and metathorax polished, the former with a smooth femoral furrow, 

 the latter without a median carina. Legs brownish-yellow, the 

 posterior coxa; smooth, black, middle tarsi and tips of posterior 

 tibiae (sometimes) and hind tarsi obfuscated or fuscous. Wings 

 hyaline, iridessent, the costa and stigma pale brown, the interior 

 nervures pallid ; submedian cell is as much longer than the median 

 as the second discoidal cell is long, the onter side of the second 

 discoidal cell entirely obliterated ; the petiole of the areolet is about 

 the length of the inner face of the areolet. Abdomen black, smooth, 

 shining, the lateral membranous margins of first segment piceous ; 

 the plate of the first segment a little more than twice as long as 

 wide, with the sides parallel, while the second segment is very short, 

 about one-third the length of the third. 



St. Vincent. Described from one $ specimen. 



Genus Urogaster, Ashmead. 



This genus is readily separated from all others in this 

 group by having the metathorax distinctly areolatetl, or 

 at least with a distinct median area or areola ; the 

 ovipositor is always prominent. Microgaster pinos, Cresson, 

 from Cuba, evidently belongs here. 



The West Indian species known to me may be tabulated 

 as follows : 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



Plate of first abdominal segment broad, trapezoidal, less than twice 

 as long as wide at apex 2 



Plate of first abdominal segment more than twice longer tlian wide, 

 narrowed, the sides parallel or nearly or slightly arcuate. . 3 



Plate of first abdominal segment fully 2^ times as long as wide or 

 even longer, narrowed at apex, or with hind angles rounded off, 

 and always wider at base than at apex 6 



2. Body wholly black ; plate of first segment rugulose, the second 

 segment much shorter than the third, smooth ; legs brownish- 

 yellow, the coxfc black, all trochanters and the middle and hind 



