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spot towards their apex; palpi slender, white ; the flagellum brown, with 

 a dusky streak above, the joints of which are rather long and cylindrical, 

 the first joint being about five times as long as thick ; the hind angles of 

 the pronotum are subacute, with a white spot at each angle ; the 

 mesonotum has two parallel grooved lines; the tegulas are testaceous, with 

 a white spot anteriorly ; legs black, the tarsi honey-yellow, the tibial spurs 

 white; the metanotum has three longitudinal carina, the metapleura and 

 the posterior fiice being striated. The abdomen is oblong oval, smooth 

 and shining, impunctured, but more or less constricted in the first and 

 second sutures. Wings hyaline, the small stigma and the veins brown. 



Type.— No. 8105, U. S. N. M. 



Manila. — This singular little wasp is named in honour of Father 

 Stanton, whose captures have contributed so much towards advancing our 

 knowledge of the Hymenopterous fauna of the Philippines. 

 Family XXI. — Trypoxylid^. Trypoxylon, Latr. 



Trypoxylon Philippinensis, new species. — $. Length, 6.5 mm.- 

 Black and shining, with sparse glittering white hairs, the hairs silvery 

 back of the eyes, on the clypeus, and on the collar ; mandibles 

 ferruginous ; the extreme apex of the scape, pedicel and trochanters, the 

 tegulte, bases of all tibire, and a bind at the base of the second and third 

 abdominal segments are honey-yellow, or testaceous; the front and middle 

 tarsi, the tibial spurs, and the fourth joint of the hind tarsi, are white. 

 Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins, except the costal and median veins 

 at base, dark fuscous, or almost black. The metanotal area is well 

 defined, the area and the posterior face each with a longitudinal median 

 sulcus. 



Type.— No. 8106, U. S. N. M. 



Manila (Father Stanton). 



Family XXXI. — Chrvsidid/E. Hedychrum, Latr. 

 Hedychrum Stantoni, new species. — $. Length, 4 mm. Blue, but 

 with metallic greenish or brassy reflections on the vertex in front of the 

 anterior ocellus, on the anterior half of the pronotum and along its sides, on 

 the sides of the mesonotum broadly, on the scutellum at the sides narrowly, 

 on the metanotum, the pro- and meso-pleura, the niesosternum, the hind 

 coxre within, and some spots on the first and second segments of the 

 abdomen ; legs black, with the tarsi, except tiie basal joint of the hind 

 tarsi, pale or yellowish. Wings hyaline, with the apical third subfuscous, 

 the stigma and veins brown. The head and thorax are rather coarsely, 



