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EESULTS FROM GIPSY MOTH PARASITE LABORATORY. 



CHALCIS INCERTA Cresson. 



(Fig. 12.) 



Fig. 12. — Chalcis inccrta, female: 

 Hind femur and tibia, showing 

 markings. (Original.) 



Chalcis incerta Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. 

 p. 101, 1865. 



IV, 



Both of the Cuban species, Chalcis rohusta 

 and C. incerta, are to be found in southern 

 Florida. The massive basal tooth of the 

 hind femora distinguishes them from the 

 other species in the United States. 



CHALCIS COLORADENSIS Cresson. 



Chalcis coloradensis Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, iv, p. 60, 1872. 



In the male of this species the hind femora are black, except the 

 apex, which is yellow; the female, however, has the femora red; 

 the hind femora have on the lower edge near base an indistinct 

 tubercle. I am unable to distinguish C. tacMnse. Howard from this 

 species. 



CHALCIS FISKEI, new species. 



(Figs. 13-14.) 



Female. — Length, about 6.5°"°. Black, head and thorax strongly, 

 umbilicately punctured, with long yellowish pubescence; face below 

 insertion of antennae rugoso-punctate ; an- 

 tennal fossa extending to anterior ocellus; 

 carina at front of malar space running back- 

 ward to join the carina at the rear, making a 



triangularly inclosed malar 



space ; antennae black, 



pedicel short, transverse; 



depressed apical margin of fig. n.-chaids fiskd, female: 



SCUtellum broad, slightly ^^"^ f^mur and tibia, showing 

 . - markings. (Original.) 



emargmate medially; me- 



tathorax, back of outer end of metathoracic spira- 

 cle, with a toothlike elevation; tegulae yellow; wings 

 dusky; postmarginal vein about twice as long as 

 the short stigmal; legs black; front and middle legs 

 female: Head, showing witli the fcmora apicallv, the tibiae at bases and 

 carina at front of malar apiccs, the tarsi, and the anterior tibiae in front, 

 yellow; a small yellow spot at the apex of the 

 hind femora, and a small yellow spot at the base and one at the apex of 

 the hind tibiae on the outer side; the hind tarsi entirely yellow; 



