ART. 3 SOME NEW CHALCID-PLIES TIMBERLAKE 11 



sides. Abdomen somewhat shorter than the thorax, triquetrous in 

 shape, the dorsal surface rather depressed; ovipositor entirely con- 

 cealed and inclosed by the ventrites, and when dissected out it proves 

 to be very short and minute. 



Legs rather short but slender; tarsi of the middle legs about two- 

 thirds as long as the tibiae, cylindrical, and not at all thickened at 

 base, not much shorter than the hind tarsi, the first joint as long as 

 the next two combined, the second to fourth joints equal and no 

 longer than thick, the fifth slightly longer than those just preceding; 

 spur of middle tibiae as long as the basal joint of the middle tarsi. 

 Wings moderately wide, the marginal fringe short; submarginal 

 vein not quite reaching to the middle of the wing, the stigmal given 

 off just before the vein reaches the costal margin; the postmarginal 

 vein very short, both it and the marginal taken together being prac- 

 tically punctiform, stigmal vein short, only slightly thickened at 

 apex and not very distinct; speculum moderately narrow and in- 

 terrupted below the middle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen smoothish, with a fine reticulate 

 sculpture; head very finely and rather indistinctly reticulate except 

 on the frontovertex, where the reticulations are coarser and the sur- 

 face is somewhat roughened; mesoscutum with a scaly reticulation, 

 the reticulations of the scutellum somewhat longitudinally length- 

 ened. Pubescence throughout short, fine, and inconspicuous, but 

 rather abundant on the face, on the frontovertex, and along the inner 

 orbits of the eyes, and sparser on the thorax; eyes nearly bare. 



General color of the body nearly ochraceous orange (Riclgway), 

 the cheeks posteriorly, occiput, under parts of thorax, and the legs 

 paler, yellow; antennae about concolorous with the face; apical 

 joint of the tarsi more or less fuscous; wings hyaline, with a minute 

 smoky spot beneath the middle of the stigmal vein, the apical part 

 of the submarginal vein also bordered with a slight infuscation. 



Length of body, (0.733 to) 0.800; length of head, 0.329; width of 

 head, 0.388; width of frontovertex, 0.216; length of antenna, 0.629; 

 width of mesoscutum, 0.334; length of fore wing, 0.893; width of 

 fore wing, 0.374 mm. 



Male. — ^Very similar to the female, but the antennae are somewhat 

 less clavate, the scape wider, the pedicel distinctly constricted at 

 apex, the club smaller and oval; coloration noticeably darker, the 

 scutellum brown and becoming fuscous at the apex, the abdomen 

 also more or less brownish, but the under parts of thorax, the legs, 

 and antennae colored about as in the female. 



Length of body, (0.766 to) 0.926 1; length of head, 0.306; width 

 of head, 0.341; width of frontovertex, 0.207; length of antenna, 



^ This specimen is probably not actually larger than any of the females, but the abdo- 

 men became swollen in the preserving fluid and did not collapse after mounting. 



