32 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



Abdomen in bad condition in the specimen; the 

 ground color is brown, with thin gray pollen in part, 

 nmch of the dorsal surface shining; first segment with 

 only lateral bristles; second with a stout, erect median 

 marginal pair; third and fourth with a marginal row, 

 the latter except the base yellow. 



Hypopygium small, yellow; first segment appar- 

 ently with one or two pairs of bristles; forceps dark 

 brown, short and nearly straight, rapidly tapering; 

 from behind they are not divergent; accessory plates 

 yellow, triangular, the free angle somewhat drawn 

 out; claspers brown, long, slender and strikingly 

 curved forward, but not apically hooked, the hind one 

 with a long hair; penis small, with a distinct, yellow 

 basal segment; distal segment brownish-yellow, 

 widening backward and bearing at apex on eacli side 

 two black ])lates, cnie behind the other, the front one 

 like a stout claw. 



Legs brown, middle femur without comb, middle 

 tibia Mith two bristles on outer front side, hind tibia 

 not villous; tarsi black, all claws moderately elon- 

 gated. 



Female. Front .336 of head at vertex, which is 

 the narrowest part, orbital as in the male; ocellar small 

 but distinct; no outer vertical; palpi yellow; bucca 

 one-fifth the eyeheight, with a distinct bristle directed 

 downward on its middle. Abdomen shining reddish- 

 yellow, a little pollinose near base; genital segments 

 retracted, yellow% without noticeable characters. Fe- 

 mora and tibijL* concolorous with abdomen. 



Length 4l/^ mm. 



One male, one female; the former is from Tam- 

 pico, Mexico, Oct. 29, 1894, labeled "(U-t8-.57 Town- 

 send. Par: on Succinia hrevis on orange"; in the 

 National Museum Collection. The female is from St. 

 Augustine, Fla., collected by C. W. Johnson, and 

 loaned by him for study. There are other specimens 

 in the National Museum, seen but not studied l)y the 

 writer. 



