HYMENOPTERA PARASITICA 315 



EuPELMiNUS Dalla Torre. 



1840. Urocryptus Westwood, Intro. Mod. Class. Ins., 11. Synop., p. 72. 

 1897. Eupelminus Dalla Torre, Wien. ent. Zeit., xvi. p. 85. 



( I ) Ejipelniimis subapterus, sp. nov. 



?. Length 2-8 mm. Brownish-yellow, the head above submetallic brown, the 

 apical third of the abdomen or more, especially above, bronzed ; flagellum subclavate, 

 black, the pedicel yellowish ; wings much abbreviated, fuscous, with pale margins and 

 extending only slightly beyond the base of the abdomen ; apex of the hind tibiae and 

 their tarsi basally, white. 



Hab. Oahu : Waianae Mountains (3000 feet), in April. "Beaten from trees. 

 Perkins." 



EuPELMUS Dalman. 

 1820. Eupelmus Dalman, Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl., xli. p. 377. 



Males 9. 



Females i • 



1. Head and thorax metallic, peacock, emerald, gold-green or blue-green. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black, with a faint metallic or aeneous tinge in 

 certain lights. 



Legs black, the anterior and middle tarsi brownish-yellow, the hind tarsi 

 and the middle tibial spur dark fuscous or black, the other tibial spurs 

 pale; hypopygium with a s pined process medially at apex; ovipositor 

 about the length of the hind tarsi, black (,1) E. niger. 



2. Legs, except sometimes the front and hind co.xae, ferruginous, testaceous or 



yellow (rarely with the anterior femora more or less embrowned basally) 7. 



Legs, except sometimes the middle pair, mostly metallic 3. 



3. Anterior and middle coxae alone metallic. 



Ovipositor much shorter than the abdomen 4. 



Ovipositor fully as long as the abdomen, angularly broken a little before 

 the basal third. 



Middle legs, all trochanters, tips of their tibiae and their tarsi, the 

 hind femora toward apex, the extreme base of the tibiae, their 

 apices and their tarsi basally, brownish-yellow •••(■^) E.. konae. 



4. Scape beneath brownish 6. 



Scape wholly metallic, not brownish beneath 5. 



