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Description of a New Eulophid 
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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EULOPHID PARASITIC ON 
BUCCULATRIX CAN ADEN SI SELLA CHAMBERS. 
By A. B. Gahan 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 
In order that the name may be available for use in connec- 
tion with biological notes to be published in a bulletin of the 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the new species 
of Pleurotropis bred by R. B. Friend is herewith described. 
FAMILY EULOPHIDAE 
Subfamily Entedonince 
Pleurotropis bucculatricis, new species. 
In Crawford’s key to species of Pleurotropis from the United 
States 1 this species runs to niger Ashmead but is at once dis- 
tinguished from that species by its bright metallic green color. 
Resembles lithocolletidis Ashmead but differs by having the frons 
above the transferse furrow and also the vertex entirely smooth 
except for a very faint reticulation within the ocellar traingle. 
Differs from lithocolletidis also by having the abdomen shorter 
and more blunt at apex. 
Female — Length 1.6 mm. Head, viewed from in front, 
smooth and polished, the ocellar triangle and a small area on the 
vertex immediately behind the ocelli faintly reticulated; vertex 
broadly concave and opaquely sculptured; face below the trans- 
verse furrow finely reticulate-punctate, subopaqq'e; inner eye- 
margiiis broadly concave; antennal scape slender, about as long 
as pedicel and two following flagellar joints; pedicel nearly twice 
as long as thick; three small ring joints; flagellum five jointed, 
not clavate, the first joint slightly longer and somewhat thicker 
than pedicel, broadest near middle; second joint ovate, shorter 
than first and about one and one-half times as long as broad; 
third joint cup-shaped, as broad as long; fourth joint similar in 
shape and subequal to the third; fifth joint (club) conical, about 
Troc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 43, 1912, p. 177. 
