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mostly rugose but becoming striate apically, the apical edge inter- 

 rupted by a smooth area in the middle, second dorsal plate about four 

 times as wide as long down the middle and rugose, though not as 

 strongly as the preceding plate, the third dorsal segment nearly three 

 times as wide at base as long down the middle and almost entirely 

 smooth ; exserted portion of ovipositor about as long as the abdomen 

 above. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13486, U.S.N. M. 



Type-locality. — Long Island, New York. Ashmead collection. 



APANTELES (PSEUDAPANTELES) ETIELLiE, new species. 



Facial line not longer than the transfacial line; vertical axis of 

 thorax virtually as great as the transverse axis; propodeum smooth 

 and polished with a distinct median longitudinal carina; first tergal 

 plate smooth and polished like the second, less than twice as long 

 down the middle as wide at base and distinctly narrower at apex than 

 at base, its sides gradually converging from base to apex, only half 

 as wide at apex as at base, second plate at least four times as wide at 

 apex as long down the middle, its apical edge slightly sinuate, hardly 

 as wide at base as long down the middle. 



Male. — Length 2.5 mm., black except as follows: Palpi mostly 

 stramineous, tegulse almost colorless tinged with brown, fore femora 

 apically, their tibiae and tarsi mostly, testaceous; mid and hind tibise 

 basally pale, together with their tarsi mostly dusky, wings whitish, 

 first abscissa of costa stramineous, stigma and costa beyond dark 

 brown, radius at least twice as long as the tran verse cubitus, the 

 third abscissa of the cubitus distinctly shorter than the second, these 

 veins, together with the recurrent vein, first abscissa of discoidal, 

 second abscissa of median and transverse median vein, all tinged with 

 brown. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13503, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Pullman , Washington. 



Received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology, under "Webster No. 5935, August 10, 1909"; J. A. 

 Hyslop, collector. Ex. Etiella scliisticolor . 



CHELONUS KNABI, new species. 



Female. — Length 5.5 mm.; antennae 34-jointed, joints of the flagel 

 black, finely longitudinally striate, at least twice as long as thick, sub- 

 equal in length, each joint a little shorter than the one preceding, though 

 from the fourth to the eleventh the joints are nearly equal in length 

 to their immediate predecessor, that is, with the fourth nearly equal 

 to the fifth, the fifth nearly equal to the sixth and so on, scape and 

 pedicel also black, head, including clypeus black, face transversely 

 rugose, with a median longitudinal more or less distinct carina extend- 

 ing from the base or near the base of the clypeus to the base of the 



