478 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



than, and about twice as long as the first funicular joint, the suc- 

 ceeding joints equal, and a little longer than thick, club pointed 

 and usually not as thick as the funicle. 



Bred from Anthonomus signatus. 

 °P. (Meraporus) calandrae Howard. 



Male: length 1.15 mm.; head and thorax steel-blue, abdomen 

 yellow-brown at base, black and shining at tip; head somewhat 

 broader than thorax, antennae subclavate, somewhat pilose, fifth 

 joint as long as the two ring-joints combined, scape fuscous, flagel 

 nearly black; thorax nearly as broad as long, parapsidal grooves 

 hardly indicated ; all femora dark brown, tibiae lighter, tarsi nearly 

 white, apical joint darker; veins yellow-brown, stigmal vein as 

 long as the marginal and half as long as the submarginal ; abdo- 

 men cordate, sessile, smooth and shining; head and dorsum of 

 thorax punctate, and with many white hairs. 



Listed as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan Calandra 

 oryzcBy from the pupa of which it has been bred. Also bred from 

 another beetle injurious to stored grain, Sitodrepa panic ea. 



°P. (Habrocytus) thyridopterygis Howard. U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, Div. Entomology, Bull. 5, Technical Series, p. 35, Fig. 17. 



Has been bred from the bags of the bag worm and from the 

 white-marked tussock moth, of which latter it is possibly a ter- 

 tiary parasite, with Hemiteles (Allocota) thyridopterygis as host. 



Eutelus Walker. 

 °E. onerati Fitch. The Oak-Bullet Gall Parasite. 

 Female : length somewhat more than 2.5 mm. ; mostly brilliant 

 cupreous, with green reflections; antennae mostly dark brown, 

 their first joint pale yellowish; legs sulphur-yellow. Male: 

 length 2.5 mm. 



Bred from galls of Callaspidia globulus, 



Merisus Walker. 



M. isosomatis Riley. Stictonotus isosomatis. 



Female: length 3.25 mm. ; mostly metallic green and sparsely 

 covered with white hairs ; antennae subclavate, pilose, head finely 

 punctate, antennae mostly black, club brownish; pro- and meso- 

 thorax rather closely punctate; anterior coxae and their femora 

 metallic green, distal end of femora, all of anterior tibiae and tarsi 



