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The extraordinary geographical range, as indicated by this summary 
of the specimens at hand, would seem to indicate the possibility that 
this species is originally an inhabitant of Europe, and that it has been 
untroduced into the United States and Australia. It is evidently a 
very important species. It is the so-called ‘“ golden chalcid” referred 
to in California reports. 
Genus ABLERUS Howard. 
Ablerus Howard, Insect Life, vol. vi1, p. 7, 1894. 
Female.—Fore-wings with no transverse hairless streak below stigma. 
Antenne apparently only 7-jointed, club appearing unjointed; antenne 
simple, slightly clavate; scape slender; pedicel as long as, or slightly 
longer than, funicle joint 1; funicle joints 1, 2, and 4 subequal in length, 
3 rather shorter; club as long as three last funicle joints together, 
furnished with two minute papillar projections at tip; mesoscutar 
parapsides clavate, but not broadening suddenly into a club; mesoscu- 
'  tellum transverse; ab- 
domen semiovate; ovi- 
positor extruded for 
more than half the 
length of abdomen. 
Wings short, narrow; 
marginal vein nearly 
as long as submargin- 
al; stigmal long, slen- 
der, one-third length 
of marginal, squarely 
truncate at tip, extend- 
ing at a very slight 
angle into disk of 
wing; marginal vein 
with three principal 
Mee \ bristles, submarginal 
Fia. 14.—Ablerus clisiocampe (Ashmead)—greatly enlarged (from with one, cilia of bor- 
museou cat der of wings as with 
Prospalta; hind border of fore-wings with a longitudinal hairless 
streak and a slight fold extending from base of wing nearly to middle; 
thickening of anal margin opposite tip of marginal vein of hind-wings 
seems to extend forward into this fold; marginal vein of hind-wings 
with closely set row of minute bristles. First tarsal joint of all legs 
as long as two succeeding joints together. Middle tibial spur as long as 
corresponding first tarsal joint. 
Ablerus clisiocampe (Ashmead) (fig. 14). 
Centrodora clisiocampe Ashm., Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington, vol. 111, p. 10 (1894). 
Female.—Length, exclusive of ovipositor, 0.7 mm.; ovipositor, 0.18 
mm.; expanse, 1.5 mm.; greatest width of fore-wing,0.19mm. Hairs of 
