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HEXAPLASTA WEBSTERI, new species. 



Female. — Length, about 1.75 mm. Black, the legs, including 

 coxae, ferruginous, more or less stained with dusky on femora and 

 apices of tibiae; antennae dark brown (fig. 5); occiput with trans- 

 verse rugae; elevation of scutellum at apex with a large fovea and 

 in front of it along each lateral margin, two large punctures; scutel- 

 lum laterad of elevation longitudinally rugose, the rugae slightly 



curved and subparallel 

 with the sides of the ele- 

 vation; scutellum apicad 

 of elevation irregularly ru- 

 gose; propodeum with two 

 rather widely separated 

 longitudinal carinae, be- 



FrG.o.-HEXAPLASTAWEBSTEBL FEMALE ANTENNA. ^^ ^^ ^ j^ of 



middle a large depression; wings hyaline, veins reddish-honey color; 

 first abscissa of the radius almost as long as the second. 



Habitat. — Wellington, Kansas. 



Host. — Euxesta nitidiventris. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18295, U.S.N.M. 



Described from three specimens under Bureau of Entomology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Webster No. 7327, H. T. 

 Osborn, collector. 



The species is named after Prof. F. M. Webster. 



The sketch of the antenna is from the right antenna of the type, 

 mounted in balsam. 



HEXAPLASTA ZIGZAG Riley. 



For comparison with the 

 new species described here 



- . nip i FIG. 6. — HEXAPLASTA ZIGZAG RlLEY. ANTENNA OF FEMALE. 



a drawing ol the female an- 

 tenna, made from one of the type series, is given (fig. 6). 



FIGITES POPENOEI, new species. 



Female. — Length, about 2.5 mm. Black; antennae, except scape, 

 red; pedicel slightly longer than broad, first joint of funicle as long 

 as scape, second very slightly shorter than the first, the following 

 shorter, subequal in length, the last joint about as long as the first; 

 face above antennae finely reticulated, below rugulose and reticulated, 

 post-vortex rugulose, post-orbits finely reticulated; mesoscutum 

 smooth, parapsidal furrows very slightly broadened posteriorly, 

 between them at apex an elongate triangular depression; mesoscutum 

 at base with two indistinct fines extending caudad about half the 

 length of scutum, parapsidal areas at outer edge with longitudinal 

 furrow, the disk with a longitudinal elevated carinate line, scutellum 



