no. 2068. NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS— GAH AN. 157 



One specimen from the type-locality reared by W. R. McConnell, 

 June 1, 1913, and recorded in the Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, under Webster No. 9627. A 

 paratype female from Lakeland, Florida, G. G. Ainslie, collector, and 

 recorded under Webster No. 9402C, was reared from a larva on corn. 



The paratype has the median areola of the propodeum more poorly 

 defined than in the type, the parallel carinae behind the cOstulae 

 being almost wholly obsolete. 



The present chaotic condition of the North American Oampo- 

 pleginae as regards both genera and species make it practically im- 

 possible to determine species of this group. A thorough revision 

 may show the foregoing as well as the following species to be 

 already described. 



NEPIERA BENEVOLA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. Head and thorax very finely closely 

 punctate and covered with short white pile; antennae slender, 27- 

 jointed in the type, the first flagellar joint fully four tines as long as 

 broad, following joints gradually decreasing in length; inner eye- 

 margins straight or very nearly so; clypeus indistinctly separated 

 from the face by a slight depression, the lateral grooves not deep; 

 ocellocular line about one and one-half times the diameter of an 

 ocellus and shorter than the postocellar line; mesopleurae with a 

 smooth area beneath the posterior wing, otherwise sculptured like the 

 mesoscutum; propodeum sculptured like the mesoscutum, scarcely 

 projecting over the base of the hind coxae, not or very slightly hol- 

 lowed out behind and distinctly areolated, the areola confluent with 

 the petiolar area and appearing nearly twice as long as broad, the 

 median basal area nearly parallel-sided and longer than broad, pro- 

 podeal spiracles touching the marginal carina of the propodeum; 

 areolet of the front wings sessile and receiving the recurrent nervure 

 slightly before the middle ; nervulus oblique ; subdiscoidal nervure 

 joining the second discoidal cell at the middle; nervellus of the hind 

 wing curved but not angularly broken ; longer of the hind tibial spurs 

 a little less than half the length of the first tarsal joint; abdomen 

 pilose, longer than the head and thorax, only slightly compressed; 

 spiracles of the first tergite a little farther from the apex of the segment 

 than from each other, postpetiole nearly parallel-sided, second tergite 

 distinctly longer than the third and not compressed, its spiracles 

 slightly behind the middle; following segments successively shorter; 

 ovipositor exserted about one-fifth the length of the abdomen. Plead 

 and thorax black; antennae entirely black; mandibles, except at 

 apex, tegulae, and trochanters, except the basal joint of the posterior 

 pair, yellow; palpi almost white; anterior and median coxae and 

 femorae and the anterior tibiae pale ferruginous, median tibiae brown- 

 ish, posterior coxae and first joint of trochanters black, posterior 



