AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSKCTS OF H)Oy AM) I908. 



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widened toward the apex; following growing sliarply narrower to the 

 pointed tip. Legs yellow, the femora, especially the anterior pair darker 

 below. Wings hyaline, the submarginal vein reaching abont two-fifths the 

 lengtli of the wing; basal vein very distinct. 



Fig. '.10. Ldxotroiift ppiiomyicv Brues. Female. 

 M.'kLE. Diiifers by its uniforndy paler legs and fihform black antennaae 

 with brownish-yellow scape. The pedicel is distinctly shorter and thicker 

 than the first flagellar joint; first and second about equal, each two and 

 one-half times as long as thick; following joint about twice as long as 

 thick, subequal; the last longer. 



Described from three specimens bred from Pegoniyia brassicw Bouche, 

 This resembles tlie western L. califoniica Ashmead, but differs 

 by its nuicli darker and more slender antennas. The scutellar fovea is 

 quadrate and the lateral grooves entire. 



FAMILY ALYSIID.E. 



Mesocrina pegoniyia', sp. nov. 



Fi-:m.\lk. Length 2.75 mm. Shining black legs and abdomen beneath 

 brownish-yellow. Head shining, three times as wide as thick. Antennae 

 28-jointed. one-half longer than the body; filiform, slender. Pedicel and 

 second flagellar joint about equal, the first one-third longer; following 

 joints growing gradually shorter; scape brownish-yellow, the remaining 

 joints black. Face shining, smooth; convex, about two times as wide as 

 high; clypeus honey-yellow, convex, with a groove at the base; strongly 

 protuberant. ^Maxillary palpi six-jointed, pale, their tips attaining the 

 tegulse; labials rather short. Mandibles honey-yellow, tridentate; the an- 

 terior tooth very blunt, median one the longest, posterior one small. 

 Mesonotum with obsolete furrows anteriorly and a small circular fovea just 



