no. 1830. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA— CRAWFORD. 443 



Male. — Length about 1.5 mm. Similar to the female, the scape 

 entirely yellowish; first joint of funicle not longer than the two-ring 

 joints combined; second joint of funicle not twice as long as first; 

 third about as long as one and two together; fourth about as long as 

 two plus three; fifth shorter than three and four together, sixth about 

 as long as third; club distinctly three segmented, about one and one- 

 half times as long as last joint of funicle. 



Habitat. — Biscayne Bay, Florida. 



Type— Cat. No. 13660, U.S.N.M. 



Three females and one male, two of the females collected by Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson, for whom the species is named. 



TANAOSTIGMODES TETARTUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.75 mm. Yellow, including the antennae and 

 legs, the abdomen above somewhat infuscated; head and thorax 

 closely punctured, the thorax with scattered black hairs, each at point 

 of insertion surrounded by a very small brown spot; parapsidal furrows 

 toward rear faint, apparently meeting at apex of mesoscutum; scu- 

 tellum hardly longer than broad (29:25); marginal vein slightly 

 longer than stigmal, the latter and the postmarginal subequal (30: 

 15:15); legs with scattered black hairs; sculpture of abdomen 

 resembling reticulations by raised lines. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — Barbados, West Indies. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13661, U.S.N.M. 



Four specimens sent in by Mr. H. A. Ballou under number 7, with 

 the additional data "On Hibiscus," May 25, 1909. 



Family PTEROMALID^. 



Tribe RHAPHITELINI. 

 HABROCYTUS PIERCEI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 4 mm. Bluish green, antenna? brown, 

 scape testaceous; pedicel shorter than first joint of funicle; facial 

 quadrangle one- third wider than long; distance from a line joining 

 lower margins of eye to side of clypeus slightly over half the length 

 of eye; left mandible with third tooth at apex broad, blunt; head, 

 dorsum of thorax, including propodeum between the lateral folds, 

 and the pleurae with thimble-like punctures; pronotum rounded in 

 front; lateral folds of propodeum broad, deep, the carina at the outer 

 edge of these folds extending back on the neck of the propodeum; 

 neck of propodeum with a large basal fovea on each side; median 

 carina on propodeum indistinct; marginal and postmarginal veins 

 subequal, the stigma shorter; femora green; the bases and apices 

 of femora, trochanters in part, and the tibiae and tarsi, testaceous; 

 segment one of abdomen almost as long as segments 2-4 combined; 



