No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 477 



thorax impressed on each side posteriorly, and usually with a 

 median carina on the middle lobe at base; wings hyaline, veins 

 light brown or brownish yellow ; legs metallic green, knees, tibiae, 

 and all except the apical joint of the tarsi honey-yellow ; abdomen 

 conic-ovate, usually a little longer than head and thorax com- 

 bined, first and second, or first, second, and third segments tinged 

 with cupreous, the abdominal segments subequal in length and 

 with some fine transverse scratches. Male : length hardly 2 mm. ; 

 mostly bronzy black; flagel thread-like, densely hairy; abdomen 

 oblong-oval, not jointed at apex, and with a yellow median spot 

 at base. 



Bred from Sitotroga cerealella Olivier. 

 °P. (C.) incertus Ashmead.* 



Female : length 2 mm. ; head and thorax metallic green, con- 

 fluently punctate and covered with rigid white hairs; flagel sub- 

 clavate, brown, first funicular joint longest, and about one and 

 one-half times as long as wide, remaining joints sub- 

 equal, the last very little longer than wide, club 3-jointed, a little 

 shorter than the funicle, its second joint longest and widest; head 

 a little wider than the thorax, hind ocelli nearer to the anterior 

 ocellus than to each other, clypeus emarginate medially; thorax 

 ovoid, prothorax distinct, mesonotum wider than long, with 

 parapsidal furrows apparent anteriorly, scutel convex, metathorax 

 half as long as the scutel, punctate, with a median carina at base 

 and oval spiracles close to the postscutellar fold, the surface 

 behind them depressed, with no lateral folds ; wings hyaline, veins 

 brownish yellow, stigmal vein clavate and about one-half the 

 length of the marginal, its club brown, marginal vein two-thirds 

 as long as the submarginal vein, the postmarginal one-half again 

 as long as the stigmal vein; trochanters, apices of femora, and 

 tibiae and tarsi, mostly honey-yellow, hind tibiae dusky at the 

 middle; abdomen conic, subcompressed, bluish black, as long 

 as the head and thorax combined, first and third -body segments 

 about equal in length and slightly longer than any of the others. 

 Male : length 1 1 mm. ; mostly dull bluish or blue-black, sometimes 

 with a slight bronzy tinge on the head and thorax above, rigid 

 pubescence subobsolete; second abdominal segment, scape, knees, 

 tips of tibiae and tarsi except apical joint, honey-yellow or whitish 

 yellow ; flagel brown and covered with pubescence, pedicel stouter 



* Habrocytus or Zatropis, according to M. W. Kurdjuraov. 



