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piceous. Wings infninated, stigma and nervnres fuscous, only the 

 praebrachial testaceous ; squamulie black ; 3d abscissa straight ; 

 radius of hind wings straight except a slight basal curve. Body 

 slightly shining, punctulato-rugulose. Head finely aciculated, 

 striolated on the cheeks and orbits, transverso-cubical, not con- 

 tracted behmd the eyes, cheeks subdilated; frontal fovea not 

 shining. Antennas shorter than the body, 20- (according to Reiuhard 

 18-) jointed. Mesothorax punctulato-rugulose, coarsely reticulated 

 just before the scutellum, which is rugose. Metathorax reticulated, 

 acutely bidenticulate at the hind angles, and obtusely on each side 

 of the base. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax, some- 

 what wider behind, striato-rugose, the rugosity becoming gradually 

 finer to the rounded aciculated apex ; anus ^ perforated, the 

 fissure ten times broader than long, extending to some distance 

 along the sides of the abdomen, its margms very smooth and 

 shining. ^ . Length, 1| — 2^ ; wings, 3 — 5 lin. 



I have not seen the ? , which Eeinhard conjectures 

 may possibly be C. suhemarginatus, Schiiff., F. G., cUii. 



Eeared by Bilkips from the galls of Andricus termi- 

 ncdis, Fab., in which numerous insects, including some 

 lepidopterous larvae, find food and shelter. 



13. Chelonus secutor, n. s. 



Niger, abdomine immaculato ; palpis nigricantibus, mandibu- 

 larum apicibus piceis. Pedes ferruginei, trochanteribus superis, 

 femorum anteriorum basi, posticis prseter lateris superioris lituram 

 totis, tibiarum posticarum apice, tarsis omnibus, nigris. Alae in- 

 fumatse, stigmate ner^^sque nigricantibus, squamulis nigris ; areola 

 radialis brevis, lata, stigmati aequalis ; abscissa 3tia subbisinuata ; 

 alarum inferiorum radius basi tantum leviter inflexa. Corpus 

 elongatum, parum nitidiam, subtilius rugulosum. Caput scabri- 

 culum orbitis striolatis, propter genarum tumorem postice latius ; 

 facies cano pubescens ; fovea frontalis ampla, geminata, nitida, 

 postice striolata, parum profunda. Antennae 25-articulat8e, corpore 

 nou breviores. Prothorax eximius, productus, striolatus. Meso- 

 thorax confertim punctulatus, juxta scutellum variolosus ; hoc im- 

 marginatum. Metathorax subtiliter reticulatus, truncatus, angulis 

 posticis obtusis. Abdomen capite et thorace hand brevius, a basi 

 inde ad apicem obtusum seusim dilatatum, sculptura solita, carinis 

 duabus baseos inchoatis, rima anali transversa, oblonga. 



Black ; abdomen immaculate ; palpi dusky ; mandibles pitchy at 

 the apex ; legs ferruginous, upper trochanters, 4 anterior femora at 

 the base, hind pair entirely except a spot on the upper edge, 

 4 posterior tibiae at the apex, and all the tarsi, blackish. Wings 



