1908] Br lies, North American Parasitic Hymenoptera VI. 
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Described from a female specimen collected by Mr. Charles 
Schaeffer at Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Texas. Type in the 
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
This species is similar to A. fasciipennis Kieffer from Nicara- 
gua, from which it differs in the sculpture of the head and thorax, 
particularly the pronotum. 
FAMILY SCELIONID^. 
Hoploteleia noveboracensis sp. nov. 
Male. Length 4.25 mm. Black, very coarsely rug-osely punctate ; 
leg-s, except coxae, honey-yellow ; wing's hyaline. Head larg-e, twice as 
wide as thick anteroposteriorly. Occiput margined. Facial depression 
deep, margined, extending nearly to the anterior ocellus above, its 
surface transversely striate, although faintty so on the sides. Lateral 
ocelli separated from the eyes by less than their own diameter. 'Eyes 
ovate, bare, twice as long as the width of the cheeks. Mandibles black, 
tridentate. Antennae 12-iointed, long- and rather slender, black, the 
base and apex of the scape ruf us ; scape as long as the three follow- 
ing joints; pedicel small, triangular; first flagellar joint twice as long- 
as the pedicel, and three times as long as thick; second slightly 
shorter; third shorter, a little over twice as long as thick; fourth and 
following about equal, but growing more slender, the fifth two and 
one-half times as long as thick, others three times ; last joint one-third 
longer and pointed. ISIesonotum with three furrows, less deeply im- 
pressed than in H. iloridana, its surface shagreened, with fine scattered 
punctures and with distinct reticulate sculpture posteriorly. Scutellum 
coarsely rugoso-punctate, with a regular row of closely placed punc- 
tures along the posterior margin. Postscutellum bidentate medially. 
Metanotum very short, rugose. Pleurae punctate-rugose, the meso- 
pleurae medially obliquely striate. Abdomen as long as the head and 
thorax ; first segment and basal half of the second very coarsely striate 
or fluted ; third the longest, faintly aciculate ; fourth one-half as long 
as the third ; fifth and sixth shorter, subequal. Legs, except coxae, 
honey-yellow, the tarsi piceous. Venter faintly punctate. Wings 
hyaline, the marginal vein short, only three or four times as long as 
thick; postmarginal long, two-thirds as long' as the submarginal ; 
