;iO; 'J332. VARIO US NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA—QIRA ULT. 185 

 PARACERAPTROCERUS AFRICANUS, new species. 



Genotype. 



Female. — Length, 1.80 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Robust. 



Orange yeUow, the following parts purple. Clab, a narrow line 

 across the face through the antennae, face of prothorax centrally, 

 venter of thorax at the base of each coxa, scutellum except narrowly 

 at apex, dorsal thorax on each side of same, meson of propodeum, 

 dorsal abdomen except a broad cross-stripe, middle and apex and 

 meson of abdominal venter. Fore wings embrowned except apical 

 end; venation dark. Clypeus hairy. Frons densely finely punc- 

 tate, the thorax very finely scaly with small punctures scattered 

 over the surface, numerous, each bearing a moderately short black 

 seta. Tarsi white except last joint. Axillae somewhat separated. 



One female in the United States National Museum, reared from a 

 Oeroplastes on Elytroimppus rhinoceratis, Cape of Good Hope, Africa 

 (C. P. Lounsbury), October, 1898. 



Type.— C&t. No. 20600, U.S.N.M., part of female on a tag, head, 

 fore wing and hind leg on a slide. 



APTERENCYRTUS PULCHRICORNIS Aehmead. 



Genotype. 



Form small, usual; mandibles tridentate the teeth not large, 3 

 obtuse, shortest. Head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the vertex flat, 

 the frons prominent, moderately narrow, the inflation of the face 

 great; eyes dorsal. Pedicel as long as funicles 5 and 6 combined, 

 the latter largest, each somewhat wider than long, 3 and 4 shortest, 

 twice wider than long, 1 subquadrate, narrower than 6, club 3-jointed, 

 as long as the funicle and two-thirds or more wider. Wliole body 

 very finely scaly. Cephalic ocellus advanced. Axillae separated 

 some little distance. The scape is black at base and ventrad, tne 

 pedicel above except at apex; funicles 1-4 dusky above. BuUa of 

 scape black. The cephalic tibia has the black cinctus dorsad while 

 the caudal tibia bears a broad cinctus below the knee; the cinctus on 

 the middle tibia is ventrad. 



Type examined. Description otherwise correct but the ovipo- 

 sitor is shortly extruded. 



The roots of both wings are distinct and it seems as though they 

 may have been torn off close to base. The species may be a (Jheilo- 

 neurus. 



HABROLEPOIDEA PERPLEXA. new species. 



Female. — Of usual form. Head tliin, rounded, inflexed; the an- 

 tennae inserted at the mouth, the scrobes forming a triangle, the 

 scape slender the flageUum clavate, the club 3-jointed, wider than 

 the funicle, cylindrical, four-fifths the length of the funicle, obtuse at 

 apex; mandibles with three subsequal acute teeth. Frons moderate 

 in width, not prominent (face shrunken in death). Eyes longer than 



