ART. 7 NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTEEA MUESEBECK d 



ered with short, fine, whitish pubescence; radius arising considerably 

 beyond the middle of stigma; first abscissa of radius short, but 

 nearly as long as second, which is scarcely half as long as the first 

 intercubitus ; radius ending much before tip of wing ; recurrent vein 

 interstitial with first intercubitus or entering the first cubital cell 

 just before first intercubitus; nervellus slightly longer than lower 

 abscissa of basella ; posterior coxae finely roughened and subopaque ; 

 first abdominal tergite with the ventral margins of the petiole closely 

 joined from very near the base to about the end of the petiole itself; 

 postpetiole above finely striate or ruguloso-striate ; only a slight sug- 

 gestion of dorsal fossae on the petiole; second and following seg- 

 ments smooth and polished; ovipositor sheaths projecting about 

 three-fourths the length of the abdomen; exserted ovipositor as 

 long as the abdomen. Ferruginous to testaceous; antennae brown- 

 ish, scape pale beneath; thoracic sutures and the propodeum black- 

 ish; wings hyaline; stigma with a large brown cloud behind, pale 

 along the wing margin; legs, including coxae, yellow, the hind fe- 

 mora at apex, the hind tibiae narrowly near base and at apex, and 

 the hind tarsi, slightly dusky; first abdominal tergite entirely black; 

 third and following tergiles usually more or less brownish. 



Type.— C?it. No. 37975, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Lynbrook, Long Island, N. Y. 



Host. — Tetralopha rohustella Zeller. 



Described from three females (type and two paratypes) reared 

 by C. H. Zimmer. 



METEORUS CINGILIAE, new species 



Falls between hypliantriae Riley and datanae Muesebeck, being 

 most similar to the latter, sometimes separable only with difficulty. 

 It appears, however, to be a good species. It can usually be dis- 

 tinguished from datanae by the somewhat coarser reticulation of 

 the propodeum, the finer punctation of the narrower median lobe 

 of mesoscutum, the more polished, impunctate scutellum, and the 

 much paler stigma. The posterior tibiae are entirely yellow 

 while in datanae there is a distinct blackish annulus near base ; and ' 

 the apical fifth is black. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. Face about as broad at base of clypeus 

 as long, smooth except for some weak transverse striae, shining; 

 clypeus strongly convex ; malar space about as long as basal width of 

 mandible ; ocell-ocular line a little longer than greatest diameter of a 

 lateral ocellus; frons and vertex smooth and shining; antennae 

 slender, 35-segmented ; the middle lobe of mesoscutum distinctly 

 shallowly punctate and shining, the quadrate area behind it, and 

 the parapsidal grooves rugulose; lateral mesonotal lobes impunctate 

 shining; scutellum rather small, strongly elevated, entirely im- 



