PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. 54I 



Described from one $ specimen from Tepic. 



The long oblong head readily separates this species 

 from all other described species in our fauna, having no 

 triangular closed discoidal cell in the front wings. 



Family CYNIPID^. 

 EuccELA Westwood. 



4. EuCCELA MEXICANA Sp. n. 



$ . — Length 1.6 mm. Polished black; mandibles and 

 legs, including all the cox^, rufous; antennas black, the 

 5 or 6 basal joints beneath, rufo-piceous ; wings hyaline, 

 the veins pallid, with a slight yellowish tinge. Antennae 

 13-jointed, reaching to the base of the abdomen, the scape 

 longer than the pedicel, the first joint of the flagellum 

 slender, but as long as the scape, the following joints, 

 2-5, gradually shortening, but increasing in thickness, 

 joints 6-10 oblong-moniliform, equal, the last joint ovate, 

 longer than the preceding, the joints 7 to 11 are all deli- 

 cately fluted. 



The scutellum is rugulose, its cup oval, connected with 

 the hind margin of the mesonotum by a short carina, the 

 disk flat, with four punctures and a small fovea on its pos- 

 terior margin. Front wings with the marginal cell closed, 

 the first abscissa of radius about two-thirds the length of 

 the second. Metapleura with a small tuft of wool just 

 above the hind coxse. Abdomen a little longer than the 

 head and thorax united, with a narrow but dense woolly 

 girdle at base. 



Described from i ? specimen from San Lazaro. 



Hexaplasta Forster. 

 5. Hexaplasta californica sp. n. 



$ . — Length i.i mm. Polished black; mandibles and 

 legs, including coxse, reddish-yellow; wings hyaline, 



