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depression across the base, the metanotum with a triangular carina at its 

 basal middle, the legs honey-yellow, the i)osterior pair with a reddish tinge, 

 the "collar, the metapleura and the petiole of the abdomen clothed with a 

 whitish pubescence ; the antennae are 14-jointed, much longer than the 

 whole insect, the scape and ]")edicel being testaceous, the flagellum being 

 l)lack, with the joints long, nodose-pedicellate and with whorls of long hair ; 

 the wings are subhyaline, ciliated, the marginal fringe long. 



Type.— No. 8127, U. S. N M. 



Manila. Two specimens received from Father Brown. This is the 

 first species in this family to be recorded from the Philippines. The wings 

 may be clear hyaline, as the specimens were in alcohol, and the slight 

 dusky appearance of the specimens may be due to dust. 



Family LVIII. — Figitid^ie. 

 Subfamily Eucoilin?e. Hexamerocera, Kicffer. 



Hexamerocera Philippinensis^wtw species. — $. Length, 0.9 mm. 

 Polished black and shining, impunctate, the mandibles testaceous, the 

 legs, including the cox;e, wholly brownish-yellow; the antennie are 13- 

 jointed, with the si.v; last joints enlarged, oval, brownish, the scape and 

 pedicel being reddish, the basal joints of the funicle being more yellowish; 

 the first joint of the fimicle is about thrice as long as thick, those beyond 

 small, moniliform, but slightly increasing in size to the club, the scutellum 

 at the sides and the metathorax are finely rugulose ; the cup of the 

 scutellum is oval, with a few punctures on its disk ; the abdomen has a 

 thick hairy girdle at its base. Wings hyaline, ciliated, the veins yellowish, 

 the marginal cell closed. 



Type.— No. 8128, U. S. N. M. 



Manila. Described from a single specimen received from Father 

 Brown. This is the first Eucoiline to be discovered in the Philippines. 

 Family LXVII. — Encvrtid.i:. Ooencyrtus, Ashmead. 



Ooencyrtus papiiionis, new species. — $. Length, 0.7 mm. Head 

 and thorax aeneous black, the head in front with a bluish tinge, the 

 abdomen testaceous, the antennae and the legs, including all coxae, pale 

 yellowish. The wings are hyaline, the veins yellowish, the marginal vein 

 punctiform, the stigmal vein short, ending in a minute, rounded knob. 

 The flagellum is subclavate, thickened towards apex, the first three or four 

 joints a little longer than thick. 



c^.— Length, 0.6 mm. Differs in having the head and thorax dark 

 blue, the eyes very large, whitish, the abdomen smaller and triangular in 



