NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. III. 
By C?iarles T. Brcjes. 
ENCYRTID.^. 
Eupelmus melanderi s^j. iiov. 
Female. Length 3 mm. Ovipositor 1 mm. Black, varied with 
brown and greenish reflections; legs bro\vnish; ovipositor pale. Head 
black with metallic greenish reflections especially strong on the 
vertex, those on the sides of the face purplish. Labrum and mandibles 
yellow, the latter with black teeth. Palpi black. Antennae 11-jointed, 
rather stout, the flagellum a little more than twice as long as the scape. 
Scape pale yellow beneath, darker above and at tip, flagellum black; 
pedicel as long as the first flagellar joint, the ring-joint short, but 
nearly quadrate; the first, second and third flagellar joints gradually 
decreasing in length, the third about twice as long as wide at tip; 
fourth to seventh decreasing in length, the seventh about quadrate; 
last joint enlarged, spatulate and as long as the two preceding. Thorax 
brownish-yellow, the middle lobe and the scutellum more or less black 
with greenish reflections. Prothorax twice as wide as long, bilobed. 
Mesonontum three times as long as the prothorax, the parapsidal eleva- 
tions \erj short and high. Abdomen as long as the thorax, shining 
black; ovipositor and its sheaths pale except at the extreme base. 
Wings aborted, very short, reaching only to a little beyond the base of 
the second abdominal segment, bent upwards at the base of the 
abdomen, their tips infuiscated; subcostal vein distinct. Legs brown- 
ish-yellow, the tips of the middle and hind tibiae and their tarsi whitish; 
hind femora darker at the middle. 
Described from three female specimens sent me by my friend 
Professor A. L. Melander. He bred them from a gall of Rhodites 
sp. on Rosa piscocarpa at Pullman, Wash. 
This is a close relative of Bnpebmis dryorliizoxeni Ashm., a 
species abundant in certain parts of the eastern states. The 
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