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posteriorly ; wing veins rather slender, stigmal knob small, post- 
marginal very delicate and indistinct; abdomen a little longer 
than the head and thorax combined; first segment (petiole) 
about as broad as long, opaquely shagreened, and weakly mar- 
gined laterally; second tergite constituting more than half the 
length of abdomen; above smooth and polished on basal two- 
thirds, the apical third delicately reticulated; beneath finely, 
longitudinally striated; tergites beyond the first short, subequal, 
very faintly sculptured. Sculptured portion of face blackish; 
antennz blackish with metallic reflections; frons, vertex, pro- 
notum dorsally, mesoscutum, scutellum, propodeum dorsally, and 
unsculptured portion of second abdominal segment highly me- 
tallic blue-green ; thorax laterally and beneath and the legs bluish 
black with metallic reflections; abdomen beyond the apical third 
of second tergite and beneath, black; narrow apex of tibie and 
basal three joints of all tarsi whitish; two apical tarsal joints 
blackish; wings hyaline. 
Male.—Length, 1.2 millimeters. Antenne missing. Like the 
female except that the head is entirely metallic green, the sides 
of thorax are more strongly bluish, the abdomen is scarcely as 
long as thorax, its petiole distinctly longer than broad; the 
second tergite occupies most of the dorsal surface of abdomen 
and is not so distinctly striated beneath, and only the apical 
tarsal joint is black. 
Type locality Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Bajos. 
Type.—Catalogue No. 22345, United States National Museum. 
Host.—Endelus bakeri Kerremans. 
Type, allotype, and female paratype, and the head of a third 
female received from Prof. Charles S. Banks, of the College 
of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, accession No. 
18394. Reared on February 25, 1918, from the above-named 
leaf-mining buprestid. Antenne from female paratype mount- 
ed on a slide. 
Superfamily SERPHIDOIDEA 
SCELIONIDA& 
Aphanurus banksi sp. nov. 
This species runs straight to the genus Aphanurus in J. J. 
Kieffer’s key to the genera of Telenominz * and agrees with the 
description of the genus. 
* André Spéc. Hym. Eur. Alg. 11 (1912) 7. 
