20 RESULTS FROM GIPSY MOTH PARASITE LABORATORY. 



CHALCIS FONSCOLOMBEI Dufour. 



Chalds fonscolombei Dufour, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, x, p. 16, 1841. 



This European i)arasite of Sarcophagidge often has the basal 

 half of the hind femora black; the hind tarsi are red at base and 

 apex and black medially, the red part ornamented with a small 

 yellow spot; the hind femora have a small tubercle on the inner 

 side below near the base; the hind coxae of the female are without 

 a tubercle. 



CHALCIS CALLIPUS Kirby. 

 CJialds callipus Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xvn, p. 75, 1883. 



In this species tlie hind coxae of the female are without a tubercle, 

 the hind femora are very sparsely punctured on the inner side and 

 have a tubercle near the base; the carina at the front of the malar 

 space has, before reaching the eyes, a branch directed backward. 



Of this species only one female has been seen, collected at Nishiga- 

 hara, Tokyo, Japan, by Prof. S. I. Kuwana, with the record "bred 

 from the pupa of a gipsy moth, July 12, 1908." 



Family PERILAMPID.E Foerster. 



Genus PERILAMPUS Latreille. 



PERILAMPUS INIMICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, about 2™"^. Deep violaceous, with purple reflec- 

 tions, the head, metathorax, and abdomen more bluish; face not 

 carinate; face and vertex impunctate, wdth scattered pubescence 

 on the vertex; scape of antennae blue or greenish, flagellum red- 

 dish brown, beneath more reddish; first joint of flagellum hardly 

 longer than the pedicel; thorax umbilicately punctured, parapsidal 

 areas along inner side, with a broad smooth area; punctures on disc 

 of scutellum more separated, leaving a more or less distinct smooth 

 line along center; wings hyaline; legs brown, hind legs in front 

 purple; knees, anterior tibiae in front, bases and tips of all tibiae, 

 and the tarsi entirely, light testaceous; apical margin of first ab- 

 dominal segment straight. 



Male. — ^Length, about 2°^". Similar to the female; apical two- 

 thirds of scape swollen and flattened in front, with a slight constric- 

 tion between the normal base and the swollen part; legs with more 

 light color at the bases and apices of tibiae. 



Habitat. — Japan. 



Described from 6 specimens reared from cocoons of Glyptajyanteles 

 jajjonicus Ashmead at the Gipsy Moth Parasite Laboratory, from 

 material received from Prof. Trevor Kincaid and Prof. S. I. Kuwana. 



Type.—CsLt. No. 12793, U. S. National Museum. 



