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OPIUS FOERSTERI, new species. 

 Plate 36, fig. 7. 



Opius melli-pes (Provancher) Ashmead, in Insect Life, vol. 3, p. 59. 



Female. — Length 2.75 mm. Head polished above, the face with 

 setigerous punctures and a distinct median elevation; clypeus trun- 

 cate anteriorly, more than three times as broad as long down the 

 middle, with some large punctures; mandibles fitting close to the 

 clypeus and with a distinct tooth on the ventral margin near the 

 base; malar space shorter than the width of a mandible at base; 

 posterior orbit slightly narrower than the width of an eye and rounded 

 off behind; antennae broken but showdng at least thirty joints in the 

 type; thorax poHshed; parapsidal grooves effaced except for a short 

 distance anteriorly; propodeum rugose; mesopleural impression 

 smooth; wings hyaline; first radial abscissa short, the second much 

 longer than the fii'st transverse cubitus; radial cell terminating above 

 the extreme wing apex. First abdominal tergite sUghtly longer 

 than broad at apex and rugose; following tergites smooth; ovi- 

 positor barely exserted. Black; clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape, 

 pedicel, tegulae, legs, and abdomen, except the first tergite, which is 

 black, pale testaceous; wing veins and stigma brownish testaceous. 



Male. — Similar in all respects to the female. 



Type-locality. — Kirkwood, Missouri. 



Type.—Co.t. No. 19366, U.S.N.M. 



The female is described from a specimen reared by Miss Murtf eldt, 

 September 25, 1881, and supposedly parasitic on Eulia triferana 

 {==Lophoderus incertana). Ashmead determined this parasite as 

 Opius mellipes Provancher and recorded the rearing as cited above. 

 The allotype is a specimen from the Ashmead collection, the origin 

 of which is unknown, 



OPIUS NIGROCASTANEUS Vlereck. 



Opius nigrocastaneus Viereck, Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci., vol. 19, 1905, p. 272. 



Type in the Snow collection. The species is unknown to the writer. 

 Habitat. — Kansas . 

 Host. — Unknown . 



OPIUS COLORADENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length, about 3 mm. Head transverse, smooth, pol- 

 ished; face with distinct sparse punctures and a prominent median 

 ridge; clypeus coarsely punctate basally, truncate anteriorly, and 

 about four times as wide as long down the middle; mandibles with 

 the ventral margin complete, only slightly separated from the clypeus 

 by a narrow transverse opening; malar space shorter than the width 

 of a mandible at base; posterior orbits about two-thirds the width 



