HYMENOPTERA PARASITICA 305 



Superfamily VII. CHALCIDOIDEA. 



Of this large complex, the families Agaonidae and Torymidae, common in all 

 tropical countries, are not represented in any collections that I have seen, taken on 

 these Islands, although we should expect that both, or at least the last mentioned, must 

 occur there. 



Family LXII. CHALCIDIDAE. 



Epitranus Walker. 

 1834. Epitranus V\[a\k.&x:, Ent. Mag. 11. pp. 21 and 26. 



(i) Epitranus lacteipennis Cameron. 



1883. Epitranus lacteipennis Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 187. 1898. 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym. v. p. 383. 



Length 4^ mm. " Dark reddish testaceous ; the head behind, more or less of 

 the lobes of the mesonotum, pleura, sternum, metanotum, petiole for the most part, 

 abdomen more or less at the sides and above, coxae and femora in the middle, blackish. 

 Antennae not much longer than thorax, becoming very gradually thickened towards the 

 apex, which is sharply conical ; the joints of the Hagellum blackish at the apex. Head 

 obsoletely punctured, covered with scattered silvery white short hairs ; hind ocelli 

 situated on the edge of the head behind. Thorax coarsely punctured ; in the centre of 

 the mesopleura is a shining semi-oblique line ; in front of this line the pleura is 

 obliquely striated. The scutellum is margined behind, the border shortly projecting. 

 Metanotum reticulated, finely punctured. Petiole carinated at the side, longitudinally 

 striated. The 2nd abdominal segment is longer than the petiole ; its basal half is 

 smooth and shining, the apical finely punctured ; the posterior coxae are not much 

 shorter than the femora, which are somewhat alutaceous, and, with the coxae, are 

 covered with short pale hairs ; the femora have nine short blunt teeth, those at the 

 apex being the shortest. Wings a very little longer than the abdomen, lacteous ; 

 nervures pallid ; cubitus almost obsolete." (Cameron.) 



Hab. Oahu. Not in the Perkins Collection. 



