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lum shining, sparsely indistinctly punctate, anterior groove with about four- 

 teen well marked pits; central fovea of postscutellum semicircular, nearly 

 smooth within, on either side of this a deep sharply margined oblong- 

 elliptical transverse fovea, rugose within; metanotum rugulose, with long 

 sparse pubescence at the sides ; medially extending nearly the whole 

 length of the metanotum, a large deep, ovate-elliptical fovea, with a sharp 

 double margin and with about three weak transverse carinae crossing it 

 within; posterior angles of metanotum acute, somewhat produced, slightly 

 excavated within, the excavated area crossed obliquely by strong rugae ; 

 lateral carinse gradually diverging cephalad. Abdomen about as long as 

 thorax, beyond first segment ovate elliptical ; membranous margins of 

 first and second segments brownish; tergum of first abdominal segment 

 punctato-rugulose, with a large median area which is almost a repetition 

 of that on the metanotum, except that the margins are not so sharply 

 defined, and it is more regularly elliptical; this tergum has also a distinct 

 circular fovea within each posterior angle ; tergum of second segment 

 finely obliquely aciculated on either side, leaving a triangular smooth area 

 at base; tergum of first segment one and half times as long as wide at 

 base, slightly broadening caudad, as long as second and third together ; 

 tergum of second segment short, nearly three times wider than long, 

 trapezoidal, wider than the first at the suture between them, and two-thirds 

 the length of the third; remaining joints smooth, shining; hypopygium 

 brownish towards the tip, ovipositor black; posterior tibial spines not half 

 the length of the first tarsal joint. 



(J. — Tergum of second abdominal segment as wide as the first at the 

 suture between them, much more distinctly trapezoidal than in the female 

 and but little more than twice wider than long. Size somewhat smaller. 



Described from four females and one male, reared from the 

 larvae of Ephestia kuhniella working in honey comb, the flies 

 emerging November 22. 



Apanteles gillettei n. sp. $. — Length of body 2.5 mm., of antennae 1.5 

 mm., of ovipositor 2 mm. Black, shining; antennae deep chocolate, basal 

 joint black; mandibles light brown at tip, palpi honey-yellow distally 

 coxae black ; femora piceous, the anterior fading to light brown at tip 

 tibiae light brown, the middle and posterior darker towards tips ; tarsi 

 brownish, posterior darker. Wings iridescent, stigma and veins pale 

 brownish, nearly unicolorous. Head transverse but thick, obsoletely 

 punctured on face, sparsely pubescent; face below antennae with a strong 

 median ridge ; ocelli medium, pale brown to colorless ; mesonotum 

 obsoletely punctured, with two very shallow depressed areas on either 

 side posteriorly ; scutellum smooth, shining, impunctate, anterior groove 

 with about fourteen well marked pits ; central fovea of postscutellum 

 semicircular, with a median carina, on either side a deep oblong-elliptical 

 transverse fovea, rugose within ; metanotum coarsely, irregularly rugose, 

 coarser near the posterior angles, non-pubescent, with a well defined 



