AN .UIERICAN SPECIES OF THE HYMENOPTEROUS GENUSWESMAELIA OF FOERSTER.
By P. R. Myers,Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture.
The description of this species adds an American representativeto this rare and Httle known genus which has hitherto been unrepre-sented by an American species. The species is apparently a veryclose relative of Wesmaelia cremasta Marshall.WESMAEUA AMERICANA, new species.Type-locality.?Hagerstown, Marylp,nd, May 15, 1915, W. R.McConnell, collector.Type.?Cat. No. 21134, U.S.N.M.Female.?Length, 4 mm.; reddish testaceous except propodeumand metanotum, which are black; front and vertex shinning, pubes-cent, rather finely and closely punctured; occiput and cliecks pol-ished, nearly bare and ahnost impmictate; face below antcrmae andclypeus pale, finely punctured, sparsely clothed with white pubes-cence; mandibles pale, dark reddish testaceous at apex; eyes black;ocelli dark brown margined with black; antennae 26 jointed, pubes-cent, pale reddish testaceous at base to fuscus at apex, joints of flagelcylindrical at base to granose at apex; scape pale, sliming, pubescent,indistinctly pmictured; carma between antennae; mesonotum shin-ing, closely and irregularly punctured, pubescent; scutcllum shin-ing, sparsely pubescent, with sparse indistinct, fine punctures, para-sidal furrows broad and rugose; mesopleurae sinning with coarseirregular punctures, also rugose areas beneath wings and near basejust above the venter; metanotum with distmct, widely separated,longitudinal carinae; propodeum coarsely rugose; abdomen, whenviewed dorsally, elliptical, laterally pyriform, slightly darker thanmesonotum, smooth and polished, petiole smooth and polished atbase and apex, aciculated laterally and indistinctly dorsally at themiddle, a little more than the apical half fuscus, the remainder hya-line; ovipositor black, about one-fourth the length of second abdo-Proceedinqs U. S. National Museum. Vol. 63-2206. 293
294 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. tod. 63.minal segment; legs pale testaceous, last joint of tarsi fuscus; wings,hyaline, nervures and stigma, pale testaceous.Allotype essentially the same as type except in the shape of theabdomen, which is elliptical when viewed dorsally or laterally;second segment much longer but not compressed laterally; propo-deum and metanotum not quite as dark; apex of petiole only fuscusabove; antennae not so quite dark toward the apex; eyes, darkbrown; antennae, 27 jointed.Allotype collected at Ithaca, New York. Paratype female atBeltsvillc, Maryland, June 15, 1913, by Mr. J. R. Malloch, and para-type male at Ottawa, Canada.