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abdomen. Legs pale whitish except cox;v, hind knees and femora and proxi- 

 mal portions of other femora. Antennae dusky pallid, the funiclar joints 

 all about twice longer than wide, the club-joints a little shorter, the flagel- 

 lum filiform; pedicel distinctly shorter than the funiclar joints taken sepa- 

 rately. Thorax finely reticulated. Hind wings with six lines of discal 

 cilia, the lines in pairs middle, caudal and cephalic the booklets distad 

 of the middle of the blade, the caudal marginal cilia slightly shorter than 

 the greatest width (at the hooklets). Fore wings with about fifteen lines 

 of discal cilia, the longest marginal cilia distinctly shorter than the same 

 cilia of the hind wing. Ovipositor white, the valves black. Terminal 

 segment of abdomen shortly conical, the valves of the ovipositor extruded 

 beyond it for about its own length (that is, the length of the terminal 

 segment.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from fifteen females "from Aleurodes sp. on Ficus, 

 June 13, 1913." 



Habitat: Passoeroean, Java. 



Types: Seven females on a slide (Queensland Museum). 



GENUS TRICHOGRAMMA Westwood 



Trichogramma australicum Girault. 



A female agreeing with the description of this species from 

 the eggs of Grapholita schistaceana, Passoeroean, Java, Sept. 15, 

 1913 (P. van der Goot). Also many specimens from Diatrcea 

 striatalis, Passoeroean, August 25, 1913 and from the eggs of 

 Chilo infuscatellus, Passoeroean, August 20, 1913 (P. van d<r 

 Goot). 



In regard to some of these specimens van der Goot wrote: 

 "These I am mainly sending you, because I can't make sure 

 myself whether they ought to be ranged under Trichogramma 

 or Trichogrammatoidea. I find very minute, little knoblike 

 appendages on the funiculus and the four last antennal joints of 

 all." In the specimens of auxtmliriim from Chilo, I also observed 

 these organs quite as they occur in Trichogrammatoidea; they were 

 on the female funicle. Trichogrammatoidea, thus, is not charac- 

 terized by bearing these minute organs but solely by the differ- 

 ent male antenna and the longer marginal fringes on the fore 

 wing. 



It strikes me that the occurrence of these organs is very rare 

 Trichogramma, since I have never seen them before. Are they 

 conidial spores of fungi? 



