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Subfamily ELACHISTINJE. 



Genus Elachistus Spinola. 



ELACHISTUS GLACIALIS sp. nov. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Polished black, impunctate, clothed with 

 a sparse, whitish pubescence; mandibles dark rufous; legs except 

 coxae and more or less of the femora, brownish-yellow, the coxa? black, 

 the front and middle femora toward the base fuscous, the hind femora, 

 except at apex, dark-brown ; scape and pedicel of antenna? black, the 

 flagellum brown-black, the funicle 4-jointed, the first joint the long- 

 est, about twice as long as thick, the following joints shortening, the 

 fourth being only about as long as thick, the club cone-shaped ; wings 

 ample, hyaline, with the veins brown, the marginal vein long, twice the 

 length of the stigmal or as long as the subcostal vein, the postmarginal 

 a little shorter than the marginal ; abdomen broadly ovate, depressed, 

 and scarcely as long as the thorax, the ovipositor subexserted. 



Male. Length 1.8 mm. Agrees well with the female, except in 

 the following differences : The legs, except the coxa?, knees and tarsi, 

 are brown-black or fuscous, the coxae being black, the knees and tarsi 

 yellowish ; the flagellum is compressed, the joints of the funicle briefly 

 pedicellate, appearing subquadrate, as seen from the side, the first joint 

 being oblong, while the abdomen is oblong-oval. 



Type. Cat. No. 5530, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Muir Inlet, 

 June 12 (Fur Seal Commission), one female; Yakutat, June 21, one 

 male. 



Subfamily EULOPHIN^E. 



Genus Eulophus Geoffroy. 



EULOPHUS KUKAKENSIS sp. nov. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. yEneous black, shagreened, the prono- 

 tum above, the scutellum, the mesopleura posteriorly and the meta- 

 pleura with a decided greenish metallic tinge ; flagellum brown-black, 

 with 3 very long branches, each branch ciliate with long hairs, sub- 

 equal in length, the first branch, however, a little the longest and as 

 long as the flagellum ; coxae metallic, the trochanters, apices of the 

 front and middle femora and tibiae, except the hind tibiae, and tarsi, 

 honey-yellow, rest of the femora black, the hind tibia? fuscous ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins light brownish; abdomen oblong, aeneous black, 

 except a yellow spot or band near its base, visible both from beneath 

 and above. 



