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HEMITELES HUNGERFORDI. new species 



In Foerster's key to the genera of the Hemiteloidae it rims directly 

 to Philonygmus Foerster, a genus without included species; and 

 agrees well with all characters except that the temples are rather 

 strongly sloping. 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm.; antennae 3.5 mm. 



Head a little more than twice as broad as thick; temples convexly 

 sloping, the convexity continuous with that of the eyes; temples, 

 cheeks, and vertex behind ocelli shining and faintly alutaceous; frons 

 opaque, with a distinct median groove ; ocelli small, in diameter less 

 than length of ocell-ocular line, which is about half as long as posto- 

 cellar line; ej^es slightly divergent below; face about twice as broad 

 as long, opaque punctate ; clypeus deeply separated from face, nearly 

 as long as interfoveal line, apically, inflexed, truncate, more shining 

 than face ; malar space as long as basal width of mandible, antennae 

 thickened beyond middle, flagellum l7-jointed, basal joints slender^ 

 subapical joints nearly twice as long as thick. Thorax neither stout 

 nor slender; pronotum finely subopaquely punctate, with a deep 

 transverse groove across collar ; mesoscutum subopaque, notauli very 

 deep, confluent posteriorly; scutellar fovea very deep, broad and 

 foveolate; scutellum opaque, convex, without lateral carinae; meso- 

 pleurum and sternum very finely punctate, subopaque, sternauli 

 sharply defined, speculum subpolished ; metapleurum and propodeum 

 very finely punctate opaque, areolation complete, carinae very strong, 

 especially the apical carina, areola hexagonal, broader than long, 

 spiracle very small round, midway between pleural and lateral 

 carinae; legs slender, hind basitarsus fully twice as long as second 

 joint, third and fifth joints subequal; stigma broad, radius beyond 

 middle; radial cell short, not longer on metacarpus than stigma; 

 areolet large, entirely open at apex; discocubitus broken; nervulus 

 slightly postf ureal; postnervulus nearly straight with subdiscoideus 

 slightly below middle; abscissula a half longer than intercubitella ; 

 nervellus broken slightly below middle. Abdomen, except first seg- 

 ment, polished, second tergite very faintly alutaceous; first segment 

 in profile strongly curved, thicker in middle than at apex, from above 

 scarcely more than twice as broad at apex as at base, spiracles in mid- 

 dle, lateral and dorsal carinae strong to apox, with a groove between 

 dorsal carinae, dorsal surface subopaque, lateral surfaces opaque; 

 abdomen beyond first segment broadly oval, epipleura very broad, 

 inflexed ; ovipositor sheath slender, about as long as first segment. 



Black ; wings hyaline with dark venation ; mandibles reddish ; legs, 

 except coxae, testaceous, tarsi apically blackish. 



Male. — Essentially like female, but more slender, second tergite 

 more distinctly sculptured, and flagellum stout filiform, not thick- 

 ened beyond middle. 



