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Father Stanton continued the work till April, 1904, when he was 
obliged to return to the United States, but in the short time he had been 
collecting he had discovered no less than five new genera and sixty-eight 
new species. 
The descriptions of the earlier of these new species were published 
by Dr. Ashmead in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society 
and of the later collections in the Canadian Entomologist and the Pro- 
ceedings of the United States National Museum. 
When Father Stanton left the Philippines, the writer continued his 
work and as a consequence the number of new genera and new species 
has greatly increased ; in fact, from December to June, which constitutes 
the best collecting season, the average of new species was one per day 
and of new genera three every two months. 
The number of species in the adjoined catalogue is 458. Many are 
included which were not contained in Dr. Ashmead’s check list, as he 
had apparently overlooked several recorded by Kohl, Ritsema, and Radosz- 
howski, while species not before recorded from the Philippines are being 
constantly discovered. However, this number does not represent the 
complete hymenopterous fauna, for the writer has in his possession some 
thirty-nine new species which have not as yet been described, while the 
Entomological section of the Bureau of Science has many more un- 
deseribed forms. 
After the name of the species discovered since 1903 I have placed the 
name of the collector and in the case of those found by Father Stanton 
and the writer, M. O., to show that they were obtained from the garden 
of the Manila Observatory. At the end of the catalogue will be found 
a list of some of the hosts from which a few of the new species were bred 
in the Observatory. 
Superfamily 11. VESPOIDEA. 
Family XX VII. CEROPALID2E. 
SuBFAMILY III. Aportnz. 
Tribe I. ANOPLILNI. 
TACHYPOMPILUS Ashmead. 
Tachypompilus ashmeadii sp. nov. Q Length, 14-16 millimeters. Head, 
thorax, and part of abdomen black, last 8 segments of abdomen brick red, covered 
with sparse pubescence, the pubescence consisting of straight, longish hairs; head 
smooth, pronotum lightly rugose, scutellum, metanotum and abdomen finely 
punctate, shining. Clypeus truncate, smooth. Scape stout, first joint of flagellum 
twice as long as the second, front face long, with a deep medial furrow. Anterior 
face of metathorax convex, posterior face concave with the angles obtusely dentate. 
‘Wings hyaline with nervules fuscous, median and submedian cells of equal length. 
Three cubital cells, first almost triangular, second quadrangular and third very 
large; hind tibia sparsely armed with spines, first joint of hind tarsi as long 
again as any of the rest, claws reddish. Manila. 
