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width subequal, its apical width decidedly greater than the length 

 of the second tergite; second tergite without a well-defined plate, 

 the indefinitely defined plate rectangular in outline; suture between 

 the second and tliird tergites well defined; the first three tergites 

 longitudinally striato-reticulate, the sculpture becoming weaker at 

 the apex of the third tergite; fourth and following tergites shining, 

 impunctate; ovipositor extending but a short distance beyond the tip 

 of the abdomen. Black; mandibles except the apices piceous; palpi 

 paUid; tcgulae dark brown; legs beyond the trochanters stramineous 

 except a black spot on the dorsal apices of the posterior femora, the 

 infuscate posterior tibiae and the two basal joints of their tarsi; 

 wings hyahne, iridescent; costa and stigma pale brown, other vena- 

 tion pallid. 



Male. — Length 1.5 mm.; length of the antennae 1.75 mm. Char- 

 acters given for the female apply to this sex, except the posterior 

 femora are infuscated and the sculpture of the first tlu-ee tergites 

 becomes more reticulate and is subobsolete laterally on the tliird; 

 sides of the first tergite are dark in the male, while in the ^male they 

 are pale. 



Falls Church, Virginia. Described from three females and one 

 male recorded under Bureau of Entomology Number Hopk. U. S. 

 111976, material collected, and reared August 21, 1913, by Carl 

 Heinrich, who records it as a parasite of Sihine stimulea. 



Type.— Ca^t. No. 18502 U.S.N.M. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) PHOBETRI, new species. 



This species is related to acronydae Riley, but the antennae are black, 

 the face is more rugose, and it forms definite individual cocoons. 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm.; length of the antennae about 3 mm. 

 Clypeus not sharply differentiated from the face; face in the middle 

 just below the antennae with rather large distinct punctures, with a 

 defined median tubercle which becomes obsolete and broader toward 

 the clypeus; head above the antennae shining, almost impunctate; 

 the oceUi prominent; postocellar line subequal with the ocellocular 

 line; intraocellar line greater by one-third than the width of the anterior 

 ocellus; antennae 18-jointed; third joint slightly shorter than the 

 fourth; third, fourth, and fifth joints constricted medianly indicating 

 that in some specimens these joints may be partly divided; mesoscu- 

 tum with large, distinct, separate punctures which become confluent in 

 front of the scutellum; suture between the scutum and scutellum 

 with four longitudinal rugae; scutellum shining, with a few large, 

 shallow, poorly defined punctures; posterior face of the propodeum 

 transversely rugulose dorsally, with two shining subconvex areas 

 which are parted by a sculptured depression; laterally the posterior 

 face is separated from the dorsal aspect by a rather well-defined 



