DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN CHALCIDOID PARASITES. 19 



CHALCIS PARAPLESIA, new species. 



(Figs. 22-23.) 



Female. — Length, about 5.5™™. Head and thorax coarsely, 

 umbihcately punctured, face below insertion of antennae rugoso- 

 punctate; the carina at front of the malar space runs almost to 

 eye, then obliquely backward and upward to join carina at rear; 

 malar space shiny, weakly sculptured; depressed apical margin 

 of scutellum deeply emarginate; metathorax 

 at sides with a small toothlike projection; 

 tegulse yellow; wings hyalme; legs black, 

 marked with 3^ellow; all the tarsi, tips of all 

 femora, bases and tips of front and middle 

 tibiae, a line on front of anterior tibiae, and 

 apical third of hind tibise and a spot near 

 base, yellow; hind femora on inner side with fig. 22.- chaids parapicsia, fe- 

 small, sparse, indistinct punctures; hind '"^'''- ^'°^ f'^'""'" ^°^ "*'''*' 



J. . •Ill • 1 T • showing markings. (Original.) 



lemora on inner side below with a distinct 



tubercle near base; lower margin of hind femora with a sawlike 

 tooth near base, followed by a series of about ten smaller teeth, these 

 decreasing in size to apex of femora; abdomen smooth, second seg- 

 ment and following segments at sides with some large punctures 

 and apically minutely punctured. 



Male. — Length, 5™™. Similar to the female, but the tooth of the 



metathorax represented by a slightly raised cari- 



nate ridge. 



Habitat. — Japan. 



Described from 6 specimens reared at the 



Gipsy Moth Parasite Laboratory from material 



collected by Prof. Trevor Kincaid and Prof. S. I. 



Kuwana. This species is parasitic in the pupae 



of Sarcophagidae. 

 ^ ,, ,, , . , . Type.—Csit. No. 12791, U. S. National Mu- 



Fig. 23. — Chalets paraplesia, 

 female: Head, showing SCUm. 



carina at front of malar xhis specics IS closely related to 0. minuta 



space. (Origmal.) -^ . ... 



Linnaeus, but is distinguished by the hyaline 

 wings and the less prominent tooth on the metathorax, which 

 has the front edge running backward instead of almost vertical, 

 as in minuta. The male of minuta occasionally has almost hyaline 

 wings and is then easily separated by the strong teeth of the meta- 

 thorax, the teeth being about as prominent in the male as in the 

 female. 



