MUNOGKAPH OF THE NOKTH AMEKICAN PROCTOTKYPIDJi:. 259 



lioiii not extending over the vertex of the head; first segment and 

 the extreme base of second striated. 



llAiUTAT. — ,Ia<*ksonville, Fhi. 



Type in Coll. Ashniead and Nath»nal Museum. 



Described from many speeiniens. 



« Inostemma californica, sp. nov. 



(J 2 . Length, 1 to 1. (>""'. Black, subopacjue, (dosely finely punctu- 

 late, the mesonotuni less distinctly punctate, shining. Head transverse, 

 the vertex at the middle posteriorly, impressed. Antenna' 10-joiuted, 

 black, the scape one-third sliorter than tiie flagellum; pedicel longer 

 than the first funiclar joint, first funiclar joint almost as long as the 

 second and third together, second, third, and fourth joints all small, 

 the last the smallest, club i-jointed, the* first the narrowest, second and 

 third ([uadrate, the last conical, longer than the preceding. In i the 

 club is 5-jointed, the fiagelluin nearly twice as h>ng as the scape, the 

 pedicel as long as the first two funiclar joints, the third being minute. 

 Thorax with "1 faint furrows. Mesopleura with a deej), glabrous impres- 

 sion on the disk, extending to the middle coxa?. Metapleura finely 

 rugose, witii raised lines. Teguhe rufo-piceous. Wings hyaline, not 

 fringed, the submarginal vein with the knobbed tip, black. Legs pice- 

 ous-black, the trochanters, anterior tibia' beneath and at tips, base of 

 middle and posterior tibia\ and all tarsi i»ale brownish-yellow. Abdo- 

 men slightly longer than the head and thorax together, pointed fusi- 

 form, smooth and shining: tlie basal segment finely rugose, in $ with a 

 large horn extending forw ird over the thorax to the vertex of head, 

 finely longitudinally aciculated, and becoming distinctly striated at 

 base; tlie second segnu'nt is long, slightly longer than the five follow- 

 ing segments united, with a fovea and some faint stri;e at base. In 

 the S the basal segment has no horn and is longitudinally striated. 



Habitat. — Los Angeles, Cal. 



Types in National Musium. 



Bred by A. Koebele, from a Cecidomyiid gall on Telypodium integ- 

 rifoUnm. 



Inostemma Lintueri, sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 1""". Black, polished, the head subopaque, closely mi- 

 croscopically i)unctate, the vertex slightly impressed in the middle, the 

 face with a nu'dian furrow, tlie lateral ocelli a little away from the 

 margin of the eye. Antenna' lO-jointed, brown-black, the apex of 

 I)edicel yeHowisli; first funiclar joint slender, more than twice longer 

 than thick; second two-thitds the length of the first; third and fourth 

 minute; club t jointed, the joints, except the last, a little wider than 

 long. Thorax smooth, shining, with distinct furrows, the scapuhe with 

 a faint trace of an impressed line; mesopleura jwdished fovea ted; meta- 

 pleura finely delicately punctate with a deep sulcus. Wings hyaline. 



