Descriptions of New Parasitic Hymenoptera. 



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the metanotum ; wings hyaline, the stigma and venation 

 yellowish ; the submedian cell a little longer than the median ; 

 recurrent nervure not interstitial, joining the apical angle of 

 the first submarginal cell ; second submarginal cell sub- 

 quadrate, the first abscissa of radius very nearly as long as 

 the second; legs long and slender, the tarsi of anterior legs 

 longer than their tibiae, the tarsi of middle and hind legs about 

 of an equal length with their tibiae, the tibial spurs of hind 

 legs very long. 



Abdomen almost linear, smooth, the spiracles of first seg- 

 ment prominent, first and second segments very long, the 

 second the longer; all the following segments united not 

 longer than the second. 



Hab. — Indiana. 



Bred by Prof. F. M. Webster, from Crambiis zeellus. 

 Sub-family Alysiin^. 



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Ph^nocarpa Forster. 



(7) Ph/Enocarpa fungicola, sp. n. Male — Length, 1.6 

 mm; black, polished; collar, pleura, and mesonotum more or 

 less piceous or dark rufous ; mandibles, two basal joints of 

 antennae, legs, and petiole of abdomen, yellow. Head much 

 wider than the thorax, the cheeks full, the occiput concave, 

 the face convex ; antennae 23-jointed, nearly twice the length 

 of body ; thorax w T ith the parapsidal furrows only slightly 

 indicated anteriorly, the mesonotum with a fovea just in front 

 of the base of the scutellum and connected with the latter by 

 a very delicate carina that separates the basal fovea of the 

 scutellum into two divisions; metanotum as long as wide, 

 with a median carina, the surface almost smooth, with only 

 some feeble transverse striae posteriorly; wings hyaline, 

 fringed, the venation yellowish, stigma lanceolate, second 

 sub-marginal cell one and one-half times as long as the first, 

 almost pointed at apex, the second transverse cubital being so 

 extremely short ; second discoidal cell wanting. 



Hab. — Wooster, Ohio. 



Bred by Prof. F. M. Webster, from Dipterous insects living 

 in black fungus. This insect is not a true P/iaviocarpa, but 

 belongs to Forster's sub-genus Spanista. 



