436 DESCRIPTIONS OF IOHNEUMONID^E ASH MEAD 



spurs, white ; tarsi, except basal portion of the first joint, dusky. Meta- 

 thorax indistinctly areolated, the middle area greatly widened behind. 

 Abdomen black, pubescent ; ovipositor about half as long as the ab- 

 domen, slightly curved. Wings hyaline, iridescent ; stigma and veins 

 brown ; the areolet oblique, petiolated. 



Habitat — Alameda, Cal. 



Described from one specimen, received from Mr. Albert Kcebele ; 

 reared in August from a Pteroph ra on apple. 



Linmeria flavicincta sp. uov. 



Male. — Length, 4 mm . Black, opaque, densely, finely punctate ; face 

 covered with dense white hairs ; antennte black ; mandibles, palpi, 

 tegulae, anterior and middle coxre and trochanters, and the second 

 joint of posterior trochanters, yellowish-white; legs reddish-yellow; 

 posterior femora ringed at base with black ; posterior tibia? with a 

 small white anuulus at base and a broader one at the middle, and a 

 subbasal anuulus and the apex, black ; their tarsi black ; the extreme 

 base of first joint, and the tibial spurs, white. Abdomen cylindrical, 

 hardly compressed, the apex of all segments, except petiole, and ob- 

 lique dilated blotches at sides of segments after the second, orange- 

 yellow ; venter yellowish-white, with black spots on third, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth segments. Wings hyaline, strongly iridescent ; stigma and 

 veins brown ; areolet petiolated. 



Habitat.— Lafayette, Ind. 



Described from two specimens received from Mr. F. M. Webster. 



Limneria csdemasiee sp. nov. 



Male and female.— Length, 7 mm . Stature aud geneial appearance of 

 L.fugitiva Say, and in color and markings the same, but at once sepa- 

 rated from it by the areas of metathorax and the difference in the 

 areolet of anterior wings. In fugitiva the small area just back of 

 postscutellum is triangular, and the areolet is oblique, petiolate, stigma 

 and veins brown ; in oedemasice this area is quadrate, the areolet ob- 

 lique, sessile, stigma and veins black or piceous-black,and the extreme 

 base of the first joint of hind tarsi only white, while the tarsi are a 

 little longer and more slender. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Described from several specimens, reared August 5, 1889, from CEdem- 

 asia concinna. Both of these species probably belong to the genus 

 Meloboris Holmgreu. 



Limneria eureka sp. nov. 



Male.— Length, 4.6 mm . Black, subopaque, finely, confidently punc- 

 tate ; scape and second antennal joint beneath, mandibles, palpi, 

 tegulre, anterior and middle coxse, and trochanters, yellowish-white; 

 legs ferruginous, the hind pair darker ; the coxse aud first joint of tro- 



