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



Eupelmus Dalman. 



E. allynii French. 



Female : length 2.5 mm. ; mostly black with a greenish luster ; 

 antennae uniformly black; wings hyaline; legs more or less 

 yellow ; femora of anterior and posterior legs, or all femora may 

 be fuscous except at ends, tibiae with basal half fuscous, terminal 

 joint of tarsi fuscous ; or all femora may be pale red and the 

 tibiae fuscous, or the mid tibiae may be a little clouded at base., 

 Male: femora yellow, front tibiae yellow, mid and hind tibiae 

 fuscous, except at apices, which are yellow ; otherwise colored as 

 in the female. 



This is on record as an important American parasite of the 

 Hessian fly. 



E. reduvii Howard. 



Female : length on an average 2.4 mm. ; head dark metallic 

 green, scape light yellow-brown, flagel black, with whitish hairs; 

 mesonotum metallic green with coppery brown reflections, scutel 

 brilliant light metallic green, sides of mesosternum yellowish; 

 front legs yellowish brown, darker along the upper side, tarsal 

 claws dark brown, mid legs colored like the front legs except that 

 the serrated edge of first two tarsal joints is nearly black, hind 

 legs all dark brown, lighter beneath ; front wing with a dusky 

 transverse band at the point where the subcostal vein reaches the 

 costa, and another transverse band at the point where the stigma 

 is given off, with its proximal border convex and well defined and 

 its distal border gradually merging into the hyaline wing tip. 



Male: average length 1.5 mm.; antennae dark brown; head, 

 prothorax, and mesonotum dark metallic green, rest of thorax 

 coppery brown; abdomen dark brown, nearly black; front legs 

 mostly light yellow, their tarsal claws brown; mid femora yel- 

 lowish, with a brown stripe along the upper edge, their tibiae 

 yellow, with a brown annulation at distal end, tibial spines yellow, 

 first and second tarsal joints yellow, the rest brown ; hind femora 

 brown, proximal half of their tibiae yellow, the remainder dark 

 brown ; all coxae yellow ; wings clear, subcostal vein and stigma 

 light brown. 



Listed as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan squash 

 bug (Anasa tristis). 



