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its disk posteriorly ; the upper hind angles of the nietathorax are obtusely 

 toothed ; the abdomen is coarsely, somewhat longitudinally, rugulose and 

 has five distinct segments, the fifth segment being triangular and terminat- 

 ing in a sharp median tooth, the dorsal segments three and four, with the 

 lateral hind angles produced into a sharp tooth, while the fourth has also 

 a shorter tooth on the middle of its hind margin. 



Brownius armatus, nQw species. — 9. Length, 9 mm.; ovipositor 

 very short, hardly projecting beyond the tip of the abdomen. Pale 

 brownish-yellow, the eyes brown, the antennae, the hind legs, the dorsum 

 of dorsal abdominal segments i, 2, 3 and 4, and the wings, except a 

 yellow band at base, black ; rest of abdomen pale or whitish. 



Type. — No. 8123. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



Spinaria curvispina, Cameron, described from Borneo, and Spinaria 

 leucomaelaena, Westwood, described from Siam, judging from the descrip- 

 tions, probably fall into this genus. The true Spinarice have the median 

 and submedian cells of an equal length. 



Subfamily XVJ. — Rhogadin^. 

 Tribe V.^Hecabolini. Hecabolus, Curtis. 



Hecabolns nibrocinctus, WQw sptcxQS. — ■^. Length, 0.8 mm. Black, 

 and shining, with the second abdominal segment reddish-yellow, the 

 antenn;e and the legs ivory-white, the eyes brown, the wings hyaline, the 

 stigma and veins pale yellowish, the stigma of the hind wings large and 

 brown-black. 



Type.— No. S131. U. S. N. M. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



J/ccabolus ru/iceps, new species. — 9. Length. 25 mm.; ovipositor 

 about the length of the body. Head reddish yellow, with brown eyes, 

 the antennae, except the first two joints, the thorax, and most of the 

 abdomen, except as hereafter noted, black ; the legs and the apical 

 margins of dorsal segments 3, 4 and 5, and all of the 6th and 7th seg- 

 ments, are honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown- 

 black, the tegulae yellowish. The antennae are very long and slender, 

 much longer than the whole insect ; the quadrate head is smooth and 

 shining, impunctate ; the thorax is long, feebly shagreened, opaque, except 

 the metalhorax, which is shining and finely, sparsely punctate, with a 

 distinct median carina at its basal half; the abdomen is elongate fusiform, 

 the first, second and third segments, and the following more or less 

 basally, are opaquely shaareened, the first being finely rugulose. 



Type.— No. 8122, U. S. N. M. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



