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somewhat prominent and situated a little beyond the middle; the sec- 

 ond segment is about two-thirds the length of the petiole and slightly 

 longer than the third ; the third and fourth are nearly of an equal 

 length, broader than long, the three following being shorter and grad- 

 ally subequal. Wings, dusky hyaline, strongly iridescent; tegulae 

 and cost se basally, yellow; stigma and veins dark brown, the stigma 

 very large, triangular, and with a yellowish spot at base; the cubitus 

 is broken just before the middle by a stump of a vein; the areolet is 

 pentagonal in position, but the outer nervure is wanting. 



Habitat. — Alameda, California. 



Described from one specimen received from Mr. Albert Kcebele, 

 reared during the month of November, 1887, from a larva of a moth, 

 Gelechia sp., found feeding on raw potato. 



HEMITELES Grav. 

 Table of new species. 



Wings not banded, hyaline or dusky 5 



Wings banded; metathorax not spined. 



Antennae less than 24-joiuted 2 



Antennae 24-jointed. 



Black; apex of fifth and the following abdominal segments, white. 



H. Belfragei sp. now 



2. Antennae less than 23-jointed 3 



Antennae 23-jointed. 



Brown; apical abdominal segments black U. melitcece sp. nov. 



3. Antennae less than 22-jomted 4 



Antennae 22-joiuted. 



Brownish-yellow H. coleophorce sp. nov. 



4. Antennae 18 jointed. 



Brownish-yellow, variegated with black H. variegatus sp. nov. 



5. Wings hyaline 6 



Wings fusco-hyaline. 



Yellow-ferruginous; head black H. nigriceps sp. nov. 



Black; abdominal segments broadly margined with red ; antennae 29 jointed. 



H. humeralis Prow 



6. Pale yellow-ferruginous species 9 



Species not entirely black 7 



Species entirely black. 



Antennae 24-jointed H. compactus Cr. 



Antennae 23-jointed H. gracilarice sp. nov. 



Antennae 21-jointed H.bucculalricis sp. nov. 



7. Abdominal segments not banded with red or white 8 



Abdominal segments banded with red or white. 



Antenna; 22-jointed; apical margins of abdominal segments narrowly red. 



H. hydrophilm sp. nov. 



Antennae 23-jointed H. anmdatus sp. nov. 



Antenna? 24-jointed. 

 Extreme apical margins of second and third abdominal segments red ; coxa 1 , 

 first joint of trochanters and femora, black (male).. .H. columbianus gp. nov. 

 Antennae 25-joiuted (male); abdominal segments two and three, red basally. 



11. Jiilciji sp. nov. 



