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evidenced by the dense area of setigerous dots in the place where the 

 hair clusters ordinarily occur. The mandibles not seen. From the 

 type in the United States National Museum. The head and frons bear 

 numerous, scattered punctures. There is a ridge across the face, 

 from the ventral eye-ends somewhat as in Taftia. Later, the man- 

 dibles were seen. They are as in Eucomys subacute at their extreme 

 ventro-distal apex, the apex broadly convexed (and usually called 

 truncate) . 



HOWARDIELLA TARSATA Ashmead. 



This is not a species of Eucomys. The scape and cephalic femur 

 are foliaceously dUated, the cephalic tibiae compressed strongly. 

 The scrobes are long, deep, long-triangular. Frons narrow yet but 

 moderatel}'' so. Marginal vein punctiform, not quite at the cephalic 

 wing margin, the postmarginal about twice longer than wide, the 

 stigmal long and somewhat curved. Pedicel elongate, over twice 

 longer than wide, nearly half the length of the funicle, the club 

 pointed conic-ovate, nearly twice the length of the funicle; funicle 

 1 quadrate, the others nearly twice wider than long. Fore wings 

 with an ovate blotch from the stigmal vein. Mandibles not seen. 

 Scutellum simple. The dilated scape and cephalic femora are char- 

 acteristic. 



From the type in the United States National Museum. 



RHOPUS TESTACEUS Ratzeburg. 



The submarginal vein terminates in a quadrate marginal, the latter 

 reaching the costal margin and giving off a very short postmarginal; 

 submarginal vein terminating at the caudo-proximal angle of the 

 marginal, far away from the costal margin, since the marginal vein 

 is quadrate. Stigmal vein not long, but about as long as the dia- 

 meter of the marginal. Corrected description. The venation is 

 very faint. From an European specimen in the United States 

 National Museum. 



RHOPOIDEUS FUSCUS Girault. 



This is a species of Rhopus. The type of R.fuscus has been reex- 

 amined; its marginal vein is not so quadrate as in Rhopus iestaceus. 

 It bears a large thoracic phragma and the ovipositor is inserted near 



apex. 



PARACERAPTROCERUS, new genus. 



Like Oeraptrocerus Westwood but non-metallic, the free ovipositor 

 is extruded for a third the length of the abdomen, the abrupt, acute 

 end of the frons forms a more prominent, overhangmg arch, the 

 mandibles are bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate, the 

 scutellum somewhat larger. Like Chrysoplatycer-us Ashmead but 

 that genus is metallic and besides other characters differs notably 

 in having the ovipositor inclosed to apex of the abdomen by the hypo- 

 pygium. In Epanusia, there is no prominent arch on the face. 

 Maxillary palpi 3-jointed. Hind tibial spurs double. 



