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plate shining, punctured laterally, nearly four times as wide at base 

 as long down the middle, its apical margin not well defined, arcuate 

 so that it is narrower laterally than medially measured antero- 

 posteriorly, exserted portion of the sheaths of the ovipositor prac- 

 tically as long as the tergum of the abdomen proper. 



Type.— Cat, No. 13510, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, September 4, 1910, 

 collected by Nathan Banks. 



Named for Mr. Nathan Banks. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) AFRICANUS, new species. 



Belongs to the same group as Apanteles {Protapanteles) fidripcs 

 (Haliday, Marshall), with which it agrees in most particulars except 

 as set forth in the following description: 



Fondle. — Length 3 mm. ; first dorsal plate parallel sided or nearly 

 so to the middle, hardly twice as long as wide at base; second dorsal 

 plate poorly circumscribed, narrower at base than long down its 

 middle, nearly twice as wide at apex as long down the middle, mem- 

 branous portion of first and second segments more or less pale, 

 third tergal segment more or less pale; radius apparently twice as 

 long as the transverse cubitus, most of the veins and stigma blackish 

 in the fore wings, hind tibiae tipped with fuscous, hind tarsi mostly 

 fuscous. 



Male. — Similar to the female. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13491, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Pretoria , Transva al . 



Received from C. W. Howard. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) BEDELLIiE, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.75 mm.; facial line not greater than the trans- 

 facial line, head black, antennae blackish, palpi mostly pale; thorax 

 black including tegulre and coxse, wings almost colorless, tinged 

 with brown, basal abscissa of costa stramineous, stigma and post- 

 stigmatic costa dark brown, most other veins in forewings strami- 

 neous tinged with fuscous; the radius, transverse cubitus and third 

 abscissa of cubitus darker than the rest excepting the costa, femora 

 and tibiae mostly stramineous to reddish, the hind femora and 

 tibia? tipped with fuscous, their tarsi fuscous, or deep brown; pro- 

 podeum shining, rugulose, with a median longitudinal carina; first 

 tergal plate hardly twice as long as wide at base, apparently as 

 wide at extreme apex as at the corresponding part of its base, the 

 almost parallel sides bulging somewhat beyond the middle and 

 finally sharply recurved so that the plate is as wide at apex as at 

 base, dullish, mostly rugulose; second tergal plate shorter than the 

 third tergal segment, but little wider at base than long down its 



