THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW HYMENOPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE IS[.ANDS. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, M.A., D. SC, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The good work on the Hymenopterous fauna of the Phih'ppine 

 Islands, begun by Father W. A. Sianton, S. J., is being continued by 

 Father Robert E. Brown, S. J., and I have now the pleasure of describing 

 below two new genera and twelve new species captured by him in the 

 Observatory Garden at Manila. 



Family XXVIII. — Vespid.«. Icaria, Saussure. 



Tcaria Cayayanensis, new species. — 5 , Length, 6.6 to 7 mm. 

 General colour brown, "marked with yellow and black. The inner orbits 

 from the sinus of the eyes downwards, the clypeus, except a bowl-shaped 

 black spots on its disk, the cheeks, a line along the hind orbits, the scape 

 of the antennae, its pedicel beneath, and the first two joints of the 

 flagellum beneath, the mandibles, except a spot at base and the teeth 

 which are black, the upper part of the pronotum dilated laterally towards 

 the hind angles, a rounded spot og the mesopleura beneath the tegulie, 

 the tegul?e, a spot at the base of the insertion of the hind wings, a broad 

 longitudinal band on the metathorax extending on each side to the inser- 

 tion of the hind coxse and separated by a triangular black spot in the 

 central depression, two lines on the mesonotum, two large quadrate spots 

 at the base of the scutellum, two spots at the base of the postscutellum, 

 most of the coxk, except a black spot at the extreme base and on their 

 posterior face, all femora, except the blackish stripes beneath and behind, 

 the tibiae, except the apices of the middle tibiie and a large brownish-black 

 blotch towards the apex of the hind tibia-, all tarsi, the apical margin of 

 the first, second and third abdominal segments and large oval spots at the 

 base of the second dorsal segment, are yellow ; the suture at the base of 

 the clypeus, a spot back of the insertion of the antennae, the flagellum, the 

 ocelli, the occiput, the front face of the prothorax, broad bands on each 

 side of the mesonotum, the mesopleura, the metapleura and the abdomen, 

 except as already noted, are black. The wings are hyaline, but with a 

 fuscous spot occupying the apical half, or more, of the marginal cell ; the 

 stigma is brownish-yellow, the veins being brown-black or black. 



Type.— No. 8126. U. S. N. M. 



Manila (Father Brown). I have this species from other places. 

 Family LIV. — Diapriid/e. Diapria, Latreille. 



Diapria Philippineniis, new species. — ^. Length, 1.5 mm. 

 Polished black, shining and impunctate, the scutellum with a large 



January, 1905. 



