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3, half the length of the club, the third joint with a convex base 

 and a distinct terminal nipple. Scape a little compressed. Man- 

 dibles tridentate, the second two teeth weakly separated, the third 

 truncate, but not large. A line of delicate punctures across the 

 pronotum. Stigmal vein of moderate length. 



The male is about the same, but the propodeum and flagellum 

 not seen. 



Described from one male and seven females reared from 

 Ceroplastes galeatus Newstead, Kampala, Uganda, Africa (C. C. 

 Gowdey) 



Types— CditoXogxxc No. 19914, U.S.N.M., three females on tags. 

 one male and two females head on a slide. 



Neomphaloidella pulchriventris, n. sp. 



Female — Length 1.20 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the legs,antennce and 

 abdomen lemon yellow, with the following exceptions: Distal joint 

 of club (washed with purple), proximo-dorsal half of pedicel, bases 

 of coxa?, middle femora (except ends), a cinctus just below middle 

 kne«, lateral margin of abdomen, the acute distal fifth (or somewhat 

 more) of the abdomen and two faint cross-stripes on abdomen 

 (both interrupted along the meson) between the centre and the 

 distal purple. The marginal stripe of abdomen is broken or partly 

 so just where it joins the distal purple and there is a marginal dot 

 at middle of the iibdomen. Second two ring-joints very short. 

 Funicle 1 nearly thrice longer than wide, a little longer than 3, 

 which is longer than any club joint or the pedicel. Club with a 

 distinct nipple. Mandibles tridentate. Venation yellow, the 

 stigmal vein long. Fore wings broad. Propodeum with delicate 

 median and lateral carina^, the former flat. Abdomen conic-ovate. 

 Sculpture usual. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in the open 

 forest, October 10, 1915, at Glenndale, Prince George County, 

 Maryland. 



Type — Catalogue No. 19916, U.S.N.M., the above specimen 

 on a tag, the head on a slide. 



A second female, same place, October 24, 1915. 



