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fifth segment distinctly longer than fourth, sixth still longer; seg- 

 ments 7 and 8 combines twice as long as 5. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — Tallulah, Louisiana. 



Host. — Anthonomus grandis Boheman. 



Described from four specimens reared by Division of Southern 

 Field Crops of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. The type and one paratype have Hunter number 1326, col- 

 lected October, 1909, in lot I 44 n and issued March 14 and 22, 1910, 

 respectively. Two paratypes have Hunter number 1934, one col- 

 lected December 16, 1909, in lot V 1 a 33, and issued March 1, 1910; 

 the others collected November 29, 1909, from lot V 1 a 22 and issued 

 November 29, 1909. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13685, U.S.N.M. 



This species resembles //. phycitidis and II. thyridppterigis, but in 

 both these species the fourth segment of the abdomen is as long as 

 the fifth. 



Named for Mr. W. Dwight Pierce, of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. ' 



Tribe PTEROMALINI. 



Genus ZATROPIS Crawford. 



When this genus was originally described only the female was 

 known. Since then the opposite sex has turned up in the type 

 species as well as in the new species described below. The male has 

 the antennae very like those of the female and with three ring joints, 

 a character which readily separates these males from the males of the 

 genus Catolaccus and allied genera. 



ZATROPIS DEUTERUS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2 mm. Head and thorax brassy green, 

 with fine thimble-like punctures; abdomen bluish green; eyes in 

 dead specimens red-brown; pubescence of head and thorax spicule- 

 like, each hair in a puncture surrounded by a flat polished space; 

 scape and pedicel light testaceous; funicle brown; first joint of 

 funicle about as long as pedicel, following joints of funicle successively 

 slightly shorter; propodeum between the lateral carinae with shallow 

 thimble-like punctures; median carina distinct; laterad of lateral 

 folds, the surface indistinctly sculptured; neck of propodeum short, 

 finely transversely wrinkled; postmarginal vein about half as long 

 as marginal, the stigmal slightly shorter than the postmarginal; 

 veins light testaceous or whitish; legs, except coxae, yellowish. 



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

 secondary sexual characters. 



Habitat. — Antigua, West Indies. 



