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a pair of median carinse which are not very close together. Scut'ellum 

 without sulci. 



A new Eucharid Chalcid-Fly from Maryland. From the woods, June 

 12, 1916. Pseudometagea hillmeadia n. sp. Female : A little larger than 

 the genotype from which it differs as follows : The general color is lus- 

 trous black not dark brown ; the head and thorax bear more numerous pin 

 punctures (in both the vertex bears a bifoveate median sulcus and is 

 rugulose on each side of this) ; the scape (excluding the bulla) is about 

 twice longer than wide, in the other only slightly longer than wide ; the 

 broad, rugulose cephalo-mesal part of the scutum is longer, reaching 

 nearly to the middle; the parapsidal furrows, punctate, are complete and 

 distinct, absent in the other (in the type female; present in the other 

 specimens placed with the type) : the femora are broadly blackish at 

 base, concolorous in the others. Otherwise the same. Types compared. 

 Scutellum with a cross-row of fovese at base, a few longitudinal striae 

 laterad and a median channel Propodeum honeycombed Petiole nodular, 

 a little larger than the coxse. Abdomen a little ascending, elliptical ovate, 

 the second segment occupying most of the surface. Marginal vein long, 

 the stigmal quadrate to oval. AntenncE 8-jointed, without a ring-joint, the 

 club solid; funicle i elongate but not as long as the club, the pedicel 

 longer than the body of -the scape (genotype) or smaller {hillmeadia). 

 Substigmal spot distinct. 



From one female, Glenndale, Md. Type : Catalogue no. 20319, U. S. 

 N. M., the female on a tag, the antennae on a slide. Differs from the 

 genotype mainly in the general coloration. Two more specimens, the 

 same place, two weeks later. 



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