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the caudal tibiae just below the knees dorsad. Also, the scape and 

 pedicel and funicle i are white and there is no suffused stripe across 

 the wing from the substigmal spot. Compared with paratypes of the 

 typical form and with type giraulti. The latter has a silvery band 

 across base of the abdomen, at least ventrad. 



Described from one female on a slide labelled "W SS^Q- 

 Secondary parasite of Asphondylia miki on alfalfa seed. Saca- 

 ton, Ariz., June 5, 191 1. Smyth." 



Type. — Catalogue Xo. 191 83, United States National Mu- 

 seiun, a female on a slide. 



5. Lathromeroides neomexicanus new species. 



Female. — Length, i.oo mm. Dusky yellow, the abdomen with three 

 to four black cross-stripes, thus like fasciatircntris but the antennae 

 and legs are pallid except the distal half of the club (joint 3), proxi- 

 mal two-thirds of the pedicel, coxae, femora, most of tibiae and dis- 

 tal tarsal joint which are dusky. Exserted valves of the ovipositor 

 black. Pedicel elongate. Two-ring joints. 



Described from one female reared from jassid eggs, Las 

 Vegas, New Mexico, C. N. Ainslie. Webster No. 6689. 



Type. — Catalogue No. 19184, United States National Mu- 

 seum. 



The hypopygium is very prominent in this genus. 



6. Trichogramma minutum Riley. The following rearing rec- 

 ords : From eggs of Estigmcne acrcae Drury, Dallas, Texas, W. D. 

 Pierce. A male from eggs on Cyperus, Lakeland, Florida, G. G. Ains- 

 lie. Webster No. 5272 AA. Three females, same locality and collec- 

 tor, from eggs of Eudamus protcus. Webster No. 8390. January 6, 

 1913. A male, same locality, from egg of Bactra lanceolana, Web- 

 ster, No. 5272 T. Two females from alfalfa, Tempe, Arizona. T. S. 

 Wilson, August 3, 1913. Webster No. 7222 G. And a female from 

 eggs of Anisota senatoria, College Park, Maryland, August i, 1Q14. 

 N. Kisliuk, A. B. Gahan. Also many specimens, 9-7, 1912, Mitchell- 

 ville, Maryland, from eggs of Ccratomia catalpae, A. B. Gahan. 



XENUFENS new genus Chaetostrichini. 

 Female. — In my table of genera runs to Japonia but differs 

 notably in the structure of the antennae, which are short 

 and strongly capitate, the club short and enlarged, the funicle 

 transverse-semi-circular, both joints much wider than long, 

 the pedicel over half the size of the club, the one ring- 



