tHE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 133 therefore, without, however, any desire to dictate to those who prefer to take a different view, continue to write : Euchceca perlineata, Packard. = exhumata, Pearsall. There are other points in Mr. Pearsall's article upon which one might comment, but I am very reluctant to take up further space in discussing a question of which the readers of the Canadian Entomologist must by this time be very tired. NEW HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES OF ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS, BOH. BV J. C. CRAWFORD, tl. S. DEPARTMRNT OF ACiRICUI.TURR. Torymus aiithonoini, n. sp. — J. Dull greenish, showing purplish tinges, especially on abdomen ; head and thorax with abundant whitish pubescence, tinely, closely punctured, the prothorax rather indistinctly transversely aciculated ; temples narrow, making the head very narrow anterio-posteriorly; cheeks, from eyes to base of mandibles, carinate; scape light reddish, flagellum dark; femora aeneous, tibii^ light reddish-testaceous, tarsi whitish, apically dark ; metathorax almost perpendicularly declivous, basally with short longitudinal rugte, the centre ones longer, median one reaching almost to insertion of abdomen, rest of surface finely shagreened; metathoracic spiracles long oval ; wings hyaline, stigmal vein two-thirds the length of postmarginal ; marginal twice as long as postmarginal ; abdomen very finely transversely lineated. Length, 3 mm.; ovipositor, i^ mm. c{ . — Differs from 9 only in the usual sexual characters and in size. Length, 1.75 mm. Type locality, Waco, Tex., Aug. 29, 1906; also from Hallettsville, Tex., Aug. 9 and 30, 1906, 2 9 . From Mexia, Tex., r 9 , Sept. 29, 1905, bred from Brachytarsus in heads of Siderani/ius rubiginosiis. Type number 10040, U. S. Nat. Mus. Urosigalplius aiithonomi, n. sp. — ■%. Black, shiny; legs red, thinly clothed with inconspicuous white hairs ; antennae and mandibles reddish, the antennae 14-jointed, reaching to base of abdomen ; antenna! grooves very short ; between antennae the grooves distinctly carinated at edge, the outer edges not with distinct carinas ; inter-ocellar area elevated to a truncate pyramid, the ocelli at the bases of the sides, face with strong close punctures, behind ocelli coarse ; median area of mesonotum rugose, not April, 1407
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