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Mesonotum shining, impunctate, with two deep furrows. 
Scutellum with two large oblique, oval basal foveae ; grooved 
laterally behind, its posterior margin crenate, straight ; postscu- 
tellum with a median and lateral carinae. Metathorax with an 
A-shaped series of carinae, the upper triangular portion very 
small, its surface rugose, shining, the posterior angles produced. 
Abdomen clavate, polished; petiole coarsely fluted, pale hairy; 
second segment at base with three short, deep sulci, verv long:, 
the remaining segments barely projecting beyond it. Genitalia 
projecting as three rufous prongs. Legs ferruginous, the coxae 
black. Wings entire, not emarginate at apex; submarginal vein 
terminating some distance from the costal margin in an oval, 
brownish, stigma-like spot ; basal veins pale brown. 
One male from Colebrook, Conn., July 21, 1905. 
Named in honor of my friend Mr. H. L. Viereck, to whose 
kindness I owe many interesting species of Proctotrypids. 
LOXOTROPA MODESTA sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1.5 mm. Black, with legs and antennae, in- 
cluding the club, reddish. Head shining black, not angulated 
above the eyes. Antennae rufous, the scape as long as the club, 
but shorter than the funicle. Pedicel about one-third as long as 
the scape and slightly longer than the first and second flagellar 
joints together; second to fifth flagellar joints about equal, 
shorter than the first and narrower than the sixth and seventh. 
Club of the usual shape, brown; its joints of equal length, the 
second quadrate. Posterior surface of head delicately trans- 
versely aciculated. Thorax shining black, the tegiilae and meta- 
thorax rufous. Scutellar fovea not extending: across the entire 
base, rather deep ; the lateral grooves wanting. Upper surface 
of metathorax slightly darkened, without any central carina, its 
posterior margin strongly emarginated, the lateral angles con- 
tinued into prominent teeth. Petiole of- abdomen rufous ; woolv. 
Second segment very long, polished. Wings pubescent, verv 
faintly tinged with brownish. 
Described from a single female collected at Lehigh Gap, Pa., 
July 13, 1900 and transmitted to me by Mr. Henry L. Viereck. 
The present species is related most closely to L. abrupta 
Thorns, and L. calif omica Ashm., but differs from both in the 
form and color of the antennae and sculpture of the scutellum. 
Public Museum, Milwaukee, 
Oct. 26, 1905. 
