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than the diameter of the average puncture, scutel shining, not so 

 closely, but more distinctly punctured than the mesonotum, the punc- 

 tures larger, most of the veins stramineous with a brownish tinge, 

 stigma and costa brown, membrane almost colorless, legs mostly 

 stramineous with a brownish tinge, tarsi brownish, hind femora with 

 a brownish tip, all tibia3 with a more or less developed brownish tip, 

 tegulae dark brown, fore and mid-coxae brownish, hind coxae black; 

 radius a little longer than transverse cubitus, forming a distinct angle 

 with the latter; propodeum irregularly reticulate, without a median 

 longitudinal carina; tergum brownish suffused with black, apical half 

 of first plate punctured, the punctures apparently larger than but not 

 so regular as on the scutel; second plate poorly sculptured with ill- 

 defined striae, shining; middle two-fourths of basal half of third tergal 

 segment with a lunate striate area, exserted portion of sheaths of the 

 ovipositor hardly longer than onychium of mid-legs. 



Male. — The third tergal segment almost sculp tureless; otherwise 

 very similar to the female. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13490, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality.— Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. 



"Reared from larvae, Danais chrysippus." Received from Mr. 

 C. W. Howard. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) CINCTIFORMIS, new species. 



Female. — Length 3 mm.; facial line shorter than the transfacial 

 line, head black, scape bright testaceous, rest of antennae mostly 

 dark brownish, mandibles, palpi, tegulae, legs including coxae and 

 trochanters, and membranous portion of first tergal segment all more 

 or less stramineous to reddish stramineous; thorax with the vertical 

 axis equal to the transverse axis, wings transparent tinged with 

 brown, stigma and costa beyond the stigma very dark brown, third 

 abscissa of the radius darker than and a little longer than the second, 

 transverse cubitus and radius concolorous with the third abscissa of 

 the cubitus, scutel smooth and shining, punctate, the punctures sev- 

 eral puncture widths apart, not well defined; first tergal plate about 

 one and one-half times as long down the middle as wide at base, par- 

 allel sided to the apical third, from thereon with the sides oblique, its 

 apex about two-thirds as wide as its base, rugulose, second tergal plate 

 trapezoidal, rather striate, as long down the middle as the first tergal 

 plate is wide at apex, second tergal segment reddish like the third and 

 fourth and sides of fifth and sixth, distinctly shorter than the third, 

 exserted portion of sheaths of the ovipositor about as long as the first 

 tergal segment. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13502, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Great Falls, Virginia, June 18; collected by Nathan 

 Banks, 



