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Genus EUPELMUS. 
Eupelmus Swederus. Vetensk. Acad. Handl., 1820, pp. 136, 376. 
Eupelmus limnerie new species. 
Female.—Length 35 mm.; expanse4.2mm. General color dark metal- 
he green; all cox metallic green; front femora honey-yellow, with 
dark, somewhat metallic stripe on outer side; middle femora honey-yel- 
low, somewhat darker above; hind femora metallic; front and middle 
tibiz honey-yellow; hind tibive with rather more than basal half fus- 
cous; tibize yellowish white; all tarsi yellowish, black at tip; antennze 
black, somewhat metallic; body moderately stout; abdomen about as 
long as thorax, widening gradually to joint 5; joint 6 rather abruptly 
acuminate; head about as wide as thorax; mesoscutum sparsely pune- 
tate; mesoscutellum and mesopleura closely and finely shagreened. 
Male.—Difters in having all femora honey-yeliow; hind tibize dusky; 
middle tibie dusky toward tips; punctation of mesoscutellum similar 
to that of mesoscutum. 
Described from one male and one female reared from cocoons of Lim- 
neria valida. 
Habitat: District of Columbia. 
U.S. National Museum type No. 3516. 
Genus ELASMUS. 
ELlasmus Westwood. Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag., III, 1833, p. 43. 
Elasmus atratus new species. 
Female.—Length 1.6 mm.; expanse 3.2 mm.; greatest width of fore 
wing 4.6mm. Face and vertex with moderately sparse large punctures; 
pronotum and mesoscutum regularly scaly, with sparse hairs; meso- 
scutellum very finely shagreened, shining; abdomen smooth, rather 
longer than head and thorax together; pleura and hind cox shining, 
the latter finely aciculate; antennie very short; funicle joints subequal 
in length and about as long as wide; club slightly flattened; hind tibie 
above with three closed cells of spines placed end to end and a portion 
of another cell at each extremity; general color black, shining; thorax 
with faint metallic cluster; meso-postscutellum not differentiated in 
color; front and middle tibizw dusky, rather lighter at bases. 
Male.—Antennal branches dusky, reaching to base of club; in other 
respects resembles female. 
Described from many male and female specimens reared from A pan- 
teles hyphantrie, Apanteles delicatus, and Limneria valida. 
Habitat: District of Columbia. 
U.S. National Museum type No. 3017, 
