ART. 3 SOME NEW CHALCID-FLIES TIMBERLAKE 3 



each of the hist three about one-half longer than wide, but dis- 

 tinctly decreasing in size distad; club elongate oval, rounded at 

 apex, a little longer than the last two funicle joints combined, 

 three-jointed, with the apical joint slightly the longest. Mandibles 

 small relatively to the size of the head and with two short acute 

 teeth at apex; the palpi not examined. 



Thorax twice as long as wide, distinctly wider than the depth 

 dorsoventrally, moderately convex above from side to side; posterior 

 margin of pronotum rectangularly emarginate; mesoscutum con- 

 siderably longer medially than at the sides, and less than twice as 

 wide as long; axillae about one-half wider than long, rather nar- 

 rowly separated medially, their posterior margin a little elevated 

 above the scutellum; scutellum small, about two-thirds as long as 

 the scutum, strongly depressed, hardly elevated at apex, but in- 

 creasingly more elevated at the sides toward the base and sharply 

 declivous, only slightly longer than wide, the apical angle some- 

 what less than 90° and slightly rounded off, the sides a little con- 

 vexly arcuate. Propodeum large, the median length about equal 

 to two-thirds of the scutellum, yet fully twice as long at the sides 

 as in the middle, gently sloping backward, convex from side to side, 

 medially with a relatively large semioval depression the apex of 

 which is contiguous to the apex of the scutellum, the margins of 

 the depression hardly carinated; the metapleura not separated by a 

 flexure from the disk of the propodeum. 



Abdomen rather small, about two-thirds as long as the thorax 

 and narrower; the outline as seen from above rather narrowly oval, 

 the greatest width less than one-half of the length, the apex bluntly 

 rounded; the dorsum deeply sunken in behind the first tergite, the 

 apical tergite very large and covering most of the visible portion of 

 the concavity; venter compressed and vomeriform at apex; ovi- 

 positor not protruded and entirely inclosed by the ventrites; cereal 

 or vibrissal plates retracted beneath the first tergite, each with only 

 one long vibrissa visibly projecting from this cavity. 



Legs rather long and very slender, including even the femora; 

 the hind femora compressed but not widened; the middle tarsi long 

 and only slightly tapering, the first joint nearly as long as the fol- 

 lowing joints combined, the tibial spur distinctly shorter; hind tarsi 

 slenderer than the middle pair and nearly as long. 



Wings broadly spatulate in shape, the basal half narrow and 

 somewhat constricted just before the point where the disk begins 

 to widen; apical half broadly oval, the apical margin evenly and 

 broadly rounded, the greatest width not much less than one-half 

 the total length of wings; marginal fringe short and dense; disk 

 deeply infuscated and with very dense short setae, relieved by four 

 bare hyaline areas in addition to the costal cell, namely, an elongate 



