HYMENOPTERA PARASITICA 297 



Family LVI. SCELIONIDAE. 



Subfamily IV. SCELIONINAE. 

 Anteris Forster. 



1856. Anteris Forster, Hym. Stud., II., pp. loi, 113. 



Females. 



1. Legs, including coxae, honey-yellow or brownish-yellow 4. 



Legs mostly black, the knees, sometimes base of tibiae and tarsi, honey-yellow 



or testaceous 2 . 



2. Antennae not wholly black, the pedicel and the funicle joints i to 5 brown 3. 



Antennae wholly black or at most with the pedicel at apex alone testaceous. 



First joint of antennal club as wide as the second ; legs, except a spot on 



the knees, black {i) A. nigricornis. 



First joint of antennal club hardly half the width of the second ; legs 

 blackish but with the trochanters, knees, base of tibiae and the tarsi, 

 except the last joint, honey-yellow or testaceous {2) A. tarsalis. 



3. First joint of antennal club only about twice as wide as long, narrower than 



the second ; legs black, with the trochanters, base of tibiae and the tarsi, 



except last joint, honey-yellow (j) A. ha7vaiie)ists. 



4. Scape and pedicel honey-yellow, the rest of the antennae black ; first joint of 



club twice as wide as long but narrower than the second {4) A. perkinsi. 



(i) Anteris nigricornis, sp. nov. 



?. Length 2-9 mm. Opaque black, the head finely, closely punctate, the punctuation 

 of the thorax still finer. Eyes large, oval, finely hairy. Ocelli triangularly arranged, 

 the lateral almost touching the eye margin. Antennae 12-jointed, black ; the first joint 

 of the funicle is the longest, cylindrical, a little more than thrice as long as thick, the 

 second a little shorter, the third very slightly shorter than the second, the fourth a little 

 longer than thick, the fifth moniliform, subpedunculate ; club 5-jointed, with the first 

 joint as wide as the second. 



Thora.x with distinct parapsidal furrows, the postscutellar ridge angulated at the 

 middle, the metathorax finely rugoso-punctate, the upper hind angles subdentate. 

 Wings dusky hyaline, the tegulae piceous, the venation dark brown, nearly black, the 

 stigmal vein paler, scarcely longer than the marginal vein and ending in a small, pale 

 knob. Legs black, the knees testaceous or honey-yellow, the anterior and middle tarsi 

 with a brownish tinge. Abdomen fusiform, longer than the head and thorax united, 

 the first segment longitudinally striate, the second more delicately striate and separated 

 from the first by a crenate line at base. 



Described from i % specimen. 



Hab. Lanai (3000 feet), in January 1894. 



