462 CONNECTICUT GEOL AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



S. nigripes Ashmead. 



Female and male : length a little more than 1 to nearly 2 mm. ; 

 mostly aeneous black ; metathorax blue, tarsi and knees dull honey- 

 yellow, veins black or pale. 



Reared from the trumpet leaf-miner of the apple (Tischeria 

 malifoliella) and a Lithocolletis on soft maple. 

 S. uroplatae Howard. 



Male : length 2.6 mm. ; mostly metallic green, yellowish be- 

 neath; joints of flagel distinct and somewhat flattened; pronotum 

 and mesonotum strongly shagreened, metanotum with a clearly 

 defined, delicate, straight, median carina; hind coxae coarsely 

 shagreened above, front femora brownish at base, the distal half 

 of the same honey-yellow, mid and hind femora brownish, 

 slightly metallic above, front tibiae and tarsi nearly white, mid 

 and hind tibiae and tarsi the same as the anterior in color ex- 

 cept a brownish tinge near base of hind tibiae ; veins of the wings 

 dusky; abdomen ovate. 



Bred from a mine of Odontata (Uroplata) suturalis. 



Zagrammosoma Ashmead. 



Hippocephalus Ashmead. 



Z. multilineatum Ashmead. 



Female: length 2.5 mm.; mostly honey-yellow; last joint of 

 funicle and the club of the antennae brown, head with black lines 

 as follows: a median one on the face below the insertion of the 

 antennae, two beneath the eye and one above the latter extending 

 transversely along the sharp edge of the vertex, two on the occi- 

 put; thorax above with black lines as follows: two lateral ones 

 extending the whole length of the dorsum of the thorax, a median 

 one extending from the anterior margin to the tip of the scutel ; 

 between the latter and the lateral lines the surface between the 

 anterior edge of the mesonotum and the metanotum is divided by 

 a line that meets its fellow at the median line; metanotum with 

 curved lines and a median straight line ; wings hyaline, stigmal 

 vein black, other veins pale ; abdomen with a median longitudinal 

 black line from which extend about twelve curved lines of black, 

 six on each side. 



