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Vol.92 Washington: 1942 No. 3137DESCKIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES OF CHALCIDOI-DEA, WITH NOTES ON A FEW DESCRIBED SPECIES(HYMENOPTERA) By a. B. Gahan
This paper contains descriptions of three new species of Brachy-meria, (one from Panama, one from Mexico, and one from Java), anew species of Blepyrus from Louisiana, and a new species of Ooencyr-tus from Wyoming. All are described from reared material. Thehost record for the Ooencyrtus is especially interesting, since thespecies is parasitic in eggs of the Mormon cricket. Synonymicaland distributional notes for a few described species also are included.Family CHALCIDIDAEGenus BRACHYMERIA WestwoodBRACHYMERIA JAMBOLANA, new speciesTumidicoxoides jambolana (Girault, MS.) Ramakkishna Atyab, Proc. 3d Ent.meeting Pusa, p. 323, 1919 (1920).Tumidicoxoides n. sp. (Girault) Ramakeishna Ayyae, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 13,part 2, p. 254, 1925.T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar published the Girault manuscript nameTumidicoxoides jatnbolana without description, listing the species asa parasite of Carea suhtilis at Counbatore, India. Subsequently herepublished the parasite record, this time listing the parasite asTumidicoxoides n. sp. Girault. So far as known the name has neverbeen validated. The specimens that formed the basis for the Giraultmanuscript name are in the United States National Museum andrepresent part of the material used for the present description. Thegenus Timiidicoxoides was reduced to synonym}^ with (Jhalcis by423982?42 41
42 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 92Girault,^ but Chalcis of authors (not Fabricius), as now recognized, isBrachymeria Westwood, and it is in that genus that the speciesbelongs.Female.?Length 4.25 mm. Very similar to Brachymeria euploea&Westwood but differing by being somewhat smaller, by the lateralocelli being approximately their own diameter from the eye margins,by the flagellar joints, except the first, all being slightly broader thanlong, by lacking entirely the tubercle on the inner ventral marginof the hind coxa, and by having the fore and middle tibiae immaculateyellow. Also very similar to alhotibalis Ashmead from which it dif-fers by having the tooth nearest the base of posterior femur smalleror at least no larger than some of the other teeth, by having the punc-tures on mesoscutum and scutellum more narrowly separated, by hav-ing the pits on hypopygiimi somewhat smaller and m.ore numerous,by having the flagellar joints very slightly shorter, and by havingthe blackish band at base of posterior tibia shorter, this band usuallyembracing only about one-sixth the length of tibia.Postorbital branch of the genal carina present and well developed
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punctures of thoracic dorsum coarse and contiguous; apex of scutel-lum with the plate weakly emarginate medially ; propodeum coarsely,irregularly rugose; abdomen subacute, ovate; first dorsal segment ofgaster smooth and nearly bare dorsally but with the dorsolateralangles conspicuousl}^ hairy; following segments weakly shagreenedwith one or more conspicuous rows of hairs extending clear acrossthe dorsum, the penultimate segment with moderately strong pitsin addition to the shagreening; hind femur with rather weak, finepunctures, more or less shining, its ventral margin with 10 to 12blunt teeth, the 3 teeth nearest base usually shorter than the otherspostmarginal vein fully twice as long as stigmal vein.Black; flagellum dark brown or black; palpi, tegulae, apical halfof anterior femur, apical one-third of median femur, a large spot atapex of hind femur, anterior and median tibiae entirely, and all tarsiyellow; hind tibia yellow, with a narrow black or blackish band atextreme base and the carina along the margin black. Wings hyaline;maiginal and stigmal veins dark. Hairs clothing the body grayishwhite and densest on front of head.Male.?Unknown.Type locality.?Coimbatore, India.rjrpe.?U.S.'n.M. No. 20898.Remarks.?The type and two paratypes, according to the labeling,were reared at Coimbatore, India, June 1, 1916, from a moth infesting
"Jambolana." Since these specimens are the original Girault manu-script types, they are undoubtedly the specimens upon which Ayyar's
1 Ins. Insclt. Menstr., vol. 14, p. 66, 1926.
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record, cited in the synonymy, was based. According to this note thehost was Carea svhfAUs (Walker) infesting Eugenia jambolan-a. Twoadditional paratypes from Coimbatore are labeled "Par. on Danals,14-11, 1913, Ponniah coll." Six paratypes are from Buitenzorg,Java, reared in March 1932 from pupae of Papillo agamemnonLinnaeus, and six others from the same locality were reared froma lepidopterous pupa on Ficus ampelas^ April 1, 1935, by Dr. Muller.Four paratypes (two of which were returned to the sender) werereceived in 1939 from C. J. H. Franssen, of the Institute for PlantDiseases, Buitenzorg, Java, reared in June 1936 from Papilio aga-memnon by R. Awibowo. Five additional paratypes from Padang,Sumatra, were reared from P. ago/memnon and received in 1918 fromS. Leefmans. BRACHYMERIA DISCRETA, new speciesThis species differs from all the previously described species ofBrachymeria known to me by having on the dorsum of the scutellujna conspicuous, smooth, impunctate area that is slightly elevated androunded posteriorly and terminates rather abruptly a little behind themiddle of the scuteilum. The species superficially resembles B.fonsGolombei Dufour but may be distinguished by the longer andslenderer antenna, by the much shorter teeth on the hind femur, bythe broadly arcuate emargination of the second segment of the gaster,by the conspicuous smooth area on the scuteilum, and by the somewhatdifferently colored legs.Female.?Length 4.75 mm. Antennae inserted on a line with lowerextremities of eyes; scape rather long; flagellum moderately slender,nearly the same thickness throughout most of its length, the twoapical joints of club tapere,d to a blunt point; first funicular jointabout twice as long as broad, second and third funicular joints alittle longer than broad, fourth to seventh joints quadrate or nearlyso; club very slightly longer than the two preceding joints. Ocell-ocular line distinctly a little more than half the longest diameterof a lateral ocellus. Head rugosely sculptured, the rugosity some-what coarser laterad of the upper half of scrobe than elsewhere; post-orbital branch of genal carina present and complete; malar spaceless than half the eye height. Thorax punctate, the punctures onprescutum distinctly larger than those on scapulae; punctures onscuteilum similar to those on posterior part of prescutum; carinateplate at apex of scuteilum narrow and not emarginate; propodeumirregularly rugose, without well defined carinately bounded areasexcept adjacent to the spiracles; mesopleuron with femoral depres-sion strongly transversely striated. Forewing with postmarginal veinabout one-fourth as long as marginal ; stigmal vein completely sessileand hardly half as long as postmarginal. Posterior femur nearlytwice as long as broad, its outer surface closely punctate, its ventral
44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 92margin with about 9 or 10 miiisiially short, bkmt, subeqiial teeth andwith a slight tubercle on inner ventral margin. Abdomen pointed-ovate, about as long as head and thorax ; first tergite perfectly smoothand bare except for a few hairs on dorsolateral margins, posteriormargin straight; second tergite hairy and weakly shagreened dorso-laterally, polished and bare on middle of dorsum and on ventral halfof lateral aspect, its posterior margin not straight but broadly arcu-ately emarginate medially; sides of third, fourth, and fifth tergitesentirely sculptured and hairy, their dorsums more weakly sculpturedand each with one more or less complete transverse row of hairs;posterior margin of third tergite very slightly, arcuately emarginatemedially, that of fourth and fifth not emarginate ; sixth tergite com-pletely hairy and finely shagi-eened and with nujnerous shallow, in-distinct punctures or pits; seventh tergite about as long as sixth,finely shagreened and hairy ; ovipositor sheath barely extending beyondapex of seventh tergite.General color black; scape reddish testaceous beneath, black orblackish above; pedicel and flagellum black; tegulae yellow^; wingshyaline, venation dark brown ; anterior and middle coxae black, pos-terior pair black outwardly but usually testaceous on inner side;femora varying from brownish testaceous to mostly black, with a pale-yellow spot at apex of each; tibiae likewise varying from brownishtestaceous to black, the anterior and middle pairs yellowish at basesand apices and the posterior pair with a yellow spot on posterior faceof each some distance behind the base and another at extreme apex;tarsi testaceous ; abdominal sternites more or less testaceous.Male.?^Length 3.3 mm. Agi-eeing with the description of femaleexcept that the raised area on scutellum is less conspicuous, beingsmaller and not polished but very fine!}' sculptured, the abdomen isabout as long as thorax, the second tergite is not distinctly arcuatelyemarginate, the hind coxae are entirely black, and the sternites areblack. The antennal flagella are missing from the only male specimenavailable ; the scape is like that of the female.Type locality.?Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.Type.?U.S.N.M. No. 55149.Remarks.?Described from six females and one male received fromPhil Ran under his note Nos. 1431 and 1436 and said to have beenreared from nests of Polhtes instahilis Saussure collected in the typelocality, the parasites having emerged at Kirkwood, Mo., May 7to 14, 1939. BRACHYMERIA DISCRETOroEA. new speciesThis is very similar to di^ereta but, so far as may be judged by thematerial at hand, seems to be sufficiently distinct to justify descriptionas a different species.
NEW CHALCIDOIDEA?GAHAN 45Female and male.?Both sexes differ from ducreta in the follow-ing particulars: The ocellocular line is less than half as long as thelongest diameter of a lateral ocellus. The vertex is a little lessstrongly sculptured and when viewed from directly above seems tohave a low but distinct ridge originating at the dorsal margin of themedian ocellus and rumiing laterad in front of each lateral ocellusnearly to the eye margin, where it curves downward along the innerorbit. (No such ridge is apparent in discreta.) The slightly ele-vated area is present on the scutellum but in this species is vei*y finelysculptured. The femoral depression on the mesopleuron is not trans-versely striated but smooth. The propodeum is divided by coarsecarinae or rugae into about 25 more or less distinct areas, the medianone of which is ovate or elliptical in shape and extends from the baseto the apex of the propodeum, while the others are irregular in shapeand roughly arranged in series of three between the base and the apexof the propodeum. The stigmal vein is not completely sessile but veryshortly petiolate. The color is very similar to that of discreta.Anterior coxae black, middle pair ahnost entirely, and posteriorpair beneath reddish testaceous; trochanters testaceous; anterior andmiddle femora blackish with their apices pale yellowish ; hind femurmostly black with the base broadly testaceous and a large pale-yellowspot at apex; anterior and middle tibiae yellow at bases and apices,dark testaceous to blackish in the middle; posterior tibia black atextreme base, with a large yellow spot near base and another at apex,the rest reddish testaceous; tarsi testaceous; forewings very faintlytinged with fuscous; abdomen of female reddish beneath, of maleentirely black. In all other respects agreeing with description ofdiscreta.Type localiti/.?Frijoles, Panama Canal Zone.Type.?V.BI^M. No. 55150.Remarks.?Described from 15 females and 13 males reared in De-cember 1923 by Wlieeler and Zetek under Zetek No. 2352 from a nestof Trigona amalthea (Olivier), which was infested by an unidentifiedmoth. Family PTEROMALIDAEGenus DIBRACHYS FoersterDIBRACHYS CAVUS (Walker)Pteromalus cavus Walker, Ent. Mag., vol. 2, p. 477, 1835.Dibrachys cavus (Walker) Kxjkdjumov, Rev. Russe Eat., vol. 13, p. 11, 1913.
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Gahan, Proe. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, p. 211, 1938.TricJiomaltis triijilJoi Blanchakd, Rev. Chilean Hist. Nat., vol. 41, p. 178, 1937(1938). (New synonymy.)To the already long list of synonyms of this widely distributedspecies, as set forth by Kurdjumov in 1913 and amplified by Gahan in
46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.921938, apparently should be added Trichomalus trujilloi Blanchard.Blanchard described tnijilloi as a parasite of the oriental fruit moth inUruguay.H. L. Parker recently sent to the Bureau of Entomology and PlantQuarantine specimens that he stated were bred from this moth atMontevideo, Uruguay, by Mesa Carrion, and that had been identifiedas Trichomalus trujilloi by Blanchard. Parker recognized the Uru-guayan parasite as probably Dihrachys cavus and requested that theybe compared with material of that species in Washington. So far asI can see these specimens do not differ in any respect from Dihrachyscavus, and since they also agree perfectly with the description ofTrichomalus trujilloi I have no hesitation in declaring the latter namea synonym. Genus HYPSICAMARA FoeisterHYPSICAMARA LACHNI (Ashmead), new combinationPachpcrepis lacJmi Ashmead, Traas. Amer. Eut. Sue, vol. 14, p. 193, 1887.The types of Pachycrepis lachni Ashmead, which are in the UnitedStates National IVIuseum collection, do not have complete parapsidalgrooves and therefore do not belong in the genus Pachycrepis. Theparapsidal grooves are present only on the anterior one-half of theinesonotum. In this respect, as well as in all other generic characters,this species seems to agree with Hypsicamara Foerster as representedby H. ratzehmgi, the genotype, of which I have seen specimens in theNaturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, identified by GustavMayr.Hypsicamara is very similar to Pacltynejiron Walker, differing onlyby having a slightly longer and slenderer marginal vein, which,although distinctly thickened, is nearly uniform in width throughoutits AA'hole length, and by having the abd; men in both sexes sub-cylindrical and distinctly narrower than the thorax. The genus mayhave to be synonymized with Pachyneuron e\ entually.Ashmeacl's types of Hypsicobinara lachni were reared from a pineai)hid {Lachrms austraJis Ashmead) at Jacksonville, Fla.I have recently identified as H. lachiii the following material re-ceived from Clyde F. Smith, of Ohio State University, and rearedby him in connection with an investigation of the parasites of variousaphids : 3 specimens reared fi'om aphids on Pinus mrginiana collectedin Hocking County, Ohio, June 2G, 1938; 19 specimens from aphidson Salix, Columbus, Ohio, June 19 and July 7, 1938 ; 5 specimens froman unidentified host collected at Mink Creek, Idaho, July 18, 1937 ; and6 specimens taken at Beaver Creek, Utah, July 25, 1937. Still morerecently 6 specimens of what appears to be the same species werereceived through O. Peck, reared July 1, 1932, from aphids on Ahieslyalsamea, taken at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, by K. E.Balch.
NEW CHALCIDOIDEA?GAHAN 47Family APHELINIDAEGenus ABLERUS HowardABLERUS PERSPECIOSUS GiraultAUenis perspectosns Gibaxjlt, Ann. Eiit. Soc. Ainer., vol. 9, p. 292, 1916.A::ottis silvGstrii Compere, Univ. Ciiliforiiia Publ. Ent., vol. 4, p. 9, 1926. (Newsynon.ymy.
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The types of Ahlerus perspeciosus Girault and Azotus silvestriiCompere in the United States National Museum collection have beencompared and found to agree completely. A. pert^peciosus was de-scribed from specimens reared from Diaspis pentagona Targioni takenat Nishigahara, Japan, and A. silvestni from specimens supposedlyreared from Chrysomphalus aonidum (Linnaeus) taken at Shanghai,China.Two specimens, determined by Girault as Ahlenis perspiciosits, arein the United States National Museum collection, reared from Diaspispentagona at Washington, D. C, in October 1913 by R. A. Cushman.One specimen, also now in the National Museum collection, was re-cently received from W. J. Schoene, of the Virginia AgriculturalExperimental Station at Blacksburg, Va., wlio stated that it had beenreared from D. pentagona but did not indicate the exact locality wherethe scale was taken. Family ENCYRTIDAEGenus BLEPYRUS HowardBLEPYRUS SACCHARICOLA, new speciesThis species differs from typical Blepyrus in some respects. Thefrons is distinctly narrower than in B. insularis (Cameron), the ocellartriangle is acute, and the sculpture of the mesoscutum and scutellumis distinctly finer and more granulose. In other respects the femalediffers only slightly from insularis. The antenna of the male, how-ever, is quite unlike that described for insularis by Timberlake.- Ac-cording to Timberlake the funicle in the male of insularis has onlythree joints and the club is very greatly enlarged and solid. In thepresent species the male antenna has six distinct funicular joints anda club that is only slightly thicker than the last funicular joint, sub-cylindrical, obliquely truncate at apex, and distinctly 3-jointed. Themale antenna somewhat resembles that in Zarhopalu^, but the vena-tion is different, and the scape of the female is not distinctly expanded.The species is also similar to Euryrhopalus in many respects but differsin the shape of the head, in the longer marginal vein, and in theantenna of the male.
' Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, vol. 5, p. 171, 1922.
48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM voi,. 92Female.?Length. 2 mm. Head menisciform, as wide as thorax;frons narrow, the frontovertex approximately four times as long asbroad, narrowest at front ocellus, expanding slightly below this point,and sharply expanded above the lateral ocelli ; ?cellar triangle acute
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anterior ocellus about its own diameter from eye margins; lateralocelli less than their own diameter from eyes ; eyes large and conspic-uously hairy; surface of frons Avith small, close, shallow puncturesnone of which are distinctly umbilicate; face and cheeks very finelyreticulate-punctate, the sculpture somewhat finer than that of frons;scrobes subtriangular, not deep ; malar space equal to approximatelyone-third eye height ; head, in lateral view, moderately thin, roundedin front, frons not prominent.Antennae inserted at clypeus; scape subcylindrical, very slightlybroadened medially, not nearly reaching to front ocellus; pedicel alittle more than twice as long as broad; funicle six-jointed, all thejoints transverse, and successively increasing in width from firstto last; club very large, fully as long as funicle and distinctly muchwider than the last funicle joint, oval, rounded at apex, and distinctly3-jointed. Thorax short and broad, only a little longer than broad;pronotum strongly transverse, opaquely sculptured ; mesoscutum fullytwice as broad as long, very finely and densely reticulate punctate,subopaque, and clothed with short brownish hairs; scutellum flat,subtriangular, very finely and evenly pmictate, the surface com-pletely mat and clothed with short dark-colored hairs ; axillae touch-ing on median line and sculptured like scutellum ; pleura finely lineo-late, slightly shining ; propodeum short, nearly smooth but with faintreticulation. Forewing reaching well beyond apex of abdomen, nearlytwo and one-half times as long as broad, evenly ciliated basad offenestra as well as elsewhere on disk; marginal vein about three timesas long as thick, stigmal nearly twice as long as marginal, postmar-ginal distinctly longer than stigmal; hind wing reaching about toapex of abdomen, and about half as broad as forewing. Legs ratherlong; median tibiae a little longer and thicker than posterior tibiae;spur of median tibia about three-fourths as long as basal joint oftarsus ; median tarsus moderately thick, tapering slightly toward apex,the under side of first segment hairy but without distinct spines.Abdomen broadly sessile, about as long and as broad as thorax, sub-triangular, rounded at apex, weakly reticulated, somewhat shining;cerci located a little before the middle; ovipositor concealed.General color deep black; mesoscutum dull metallic green; scape,anterior and median tibiae apically, posterior femora apically, pos-terior tibiae entirely, and all tarsi reddish testaceous ; wings hyaline,venation brownish testaceous; flagelliun black.Male. ^Length 1.6 mm. Antennal scape somewhat fuscous ; flagel-lum clavate but not strongly so ; pedicel about twice as long as broad
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NEW CHALCIDOIDEA?GAHAN 49funicle six-jointed, the joints all wider than long, successively in-creasing slightly in width and length, the sixth joint not quite twice aswide as first and about twice as broad as long; club not quite so longas funicle, scarcely broader than last funicle joint, subcylindrical,obliquely truncate at apex, and very indistinctly 3-jointed. Posteriorfemora entirely and their tibiae for the most part blackish. Other-wise like the female.Ty'pe locality.?Franklin, La,T'ype.?U.S.N.M. No. 55151.Remarks.?Female holotype and three female paratypes receivedfrom J, W. Ingram and said to have been reared from Pseudococcussp. on sugarcane taken at Franlclin, La. Allotype male reared fromthe same host at Thibodeaux, La., October 28, 1928, by E. K. Bynum,and one paratype female reared by the same entomologist from similarmaterial collected at Gainesville, Fla.Genus EURYRHOPALUS HowardEuryrlwpalus Howabd, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 237, 1898.Synaspidia Timbeklakb, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, vol. 5, p. 397, 1024. (Newsynonymy.
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The type of EuTyrho])dlus schwarzi Howard (genotype of Euryrho-palus) and paratypes of Synaspidia pretiosa Timberlake (genotypeof SynasTndia) have been compared and found to agree in all genericcharacters. The two species are extremely similar but may be dis-tinguished, for the present at least, by the fact that schioarzi is slightlythe larger, with the forewing distinctly infumated behind the mar-ginal vein, the hind wing distinctly more than half as broad as theforewing and forming a broad but distinctly acute angle at its apex,while the forewing of pretiosa is without distinct infuscation and thehind wing is not more than half the width of the forewing with itsapex more rounded. Otherv/ise they seem to be practically in-distinguishable. Genus OOENCYRTUS AshmeadOOENCYRTUS ANABRIVORUS, new speciesThe female of this species is usually, though not always, brachyp-terous. The fully winged female appears to be a nearly typicalOoeiicyrtiis except that the scutellum is less strongly sculptured, lessconvex, and less rounded at apex, while the forewing is weakly in-fuscated medially and the abdomen is a little longer and more robustthan usual. The brachypterous females have the scutellum nearly fiat,very faintly sculptured, and subacute posteriorly, while the wingsvary in length and correspondingly in width, in some specimensbarely extending to the apex of the propodeum, but in others attain-ing the middle of the abdomen. In the majority of individuals the
50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL IVrUSEUM vol. 92forewings extend to or a little beyond the apex of tlie first tergite. Themales apparently are always fully winged but differ from typicalOoencyrtus by having the funicle of the antenna slightly compressed,the joints subequal, about as broad as long, narrower at base than atapex and clothed with relatively short liairs, none of which is longerthan the segments. These differences do not seem sufficient to justifythe erection of a new genus for the species, the habits of which agreewith those of other species of Ooencyrtus.Fully winged female.?Length 1.6 mm. Head as wide as thorax,with fine, reticulate sculpture ; eyes rather large, very sparsely pilose
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ocelli small, forming a nearly right-angle dtriangle; ocellocular lineslightly longer than diameter of lateral ocellus; width of frons equalto approximately one-third width of head ; frontovertex about one andone-third times as long as broad; scrobes moderately impressed,romided above ; cheeks rounded ; malar groove distinct but fine ; mandi-bles each with three short subequal teeth; maxillary palpus four-jointed, labial palpus 3-jointed; antennae inserted near anterior mar-gin of face ; scape compressed, about four times as long as broad, broad-est medially; pedicel subcylindrical, nearly three times as long asbroad, about equal in length to first and second funicular segmentscombined ; funicular joints cylindrical or nearly so, the first joint just alittle longer than broad and slightly narrower than pedicel; secondjoint subequal to first; third to sixth joints about as long as broad, thesixth slightly thicker than the first; club cylindrical, not thicker thanfunicle, about as long as three preceding funicular joints combined anddistinctly 3-jointed. Thorax slightly compressed dorsoventrally
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mesoscutum distinctly broader than long, weakly convex, weakly re-ticulated and with numerous small, shallow hair punctures; scutellumlow, nearly flat, subtriangular, subacute at apex, a little longer thanmesoscutum and with similar reticulate sculpture, but with sparserand less distinct hair punctures; whole dorsum of thorax somewhatshining; propodeum short, weakly reticulately sculptured, withoutdistinct carinae; pleura more strongly sculptured and less shiningthan mesoscutum. Legs normal, spur of middle tibia about two-thirdsas long as first tarsal joint. Forewing extending beyond apex ofabdomen, a little more than twice as long as broad ; marginal vein alittle longer than broad, postmarginal longer than marginal but alittle shorter than stigmal, which is about twice as long as marginalmarginal cilia short; discal cilia rather dense and short; obliquehairless streak behind stigmal vein wider posteriorly than anteriorlyand complete. Abdomen as long as head and thorax combined, asbroad as or a little broader than thorax, rather robust, ovate, weaklyreticulately sculptured; ovipositor not exserted. Black, somewhatshining; antennae entirely black; all coxae, anterior and posterior
NEW CHALCIDOIDEA?GAHAN 51femora, and posterior tibiae at base black, or blackish ; middle femoramore or less testaceous mixed with blackish; rest of legs testaceous;forewiiig weakly infuscated from base to a little beyond middle,hyaline apically ; hind wing hyaline.Brachypterous female.?Like the fully winged female except forthe short wings and the fact that the scutellum is even more flattenedand more nearl}^ acute posteriorly.Male.?Length 1.2 mm. Apparently always with fully developedwings, the forewing without infuscation ; antennal scape about like thatof female ; pedicel not much longer than broad and only slightly longerthan first funicular joint, pale at apex; funicular joints pale at base,dark at apex, the first funicular joint slightly smaller than the others,all slightly compressed and about as long as broad at apex ; club notbroader than funicle and about as long as the two preceding jointscombined; trochanters, knees, apices of all tibiae, and all tarsitestaceous. Otherwise agreeing with description of female.Type locality.?Big Horn Mountains, Wyo.Typc.?V.S.'^M. No. 55148.Remarks.?Described from 71 specimens, all reared in December1939 from eggs of the Mormon cricket, Anahrus simj>lex Haldeman,collected in the Big Horn Moimtains, Wyo., by J. R. Parker and H. J.Schipmen, and consisting of 1 fully winged female (the holotype),64 brachypterous females, and 6 males (one allotype).
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