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the excavation bounded on each side by a carinate ridge; wings 

 hyaline, veins light honey color. 



Habitat. — Mayaguez, Porto Kico. 



Three females with the additional data, No. 5064, bred from the 

 mango fruit fly known as "the jobo," September 5, 1912. (C. W. 

 Hooker, collector.) 



Type.—Csit. No. 15318, U.S.N.M. 



In color this species resembles G. iridipennis Ashmead, but in that 

 species the elevation of the scutellum is broad and each cheek has a 

 vertical carina. 



The species is named after the collector. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family CALLIMOMID^. 



PODAGRION SHIRAKII, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2.75 mm.; ovipositor about 3.75 mm. 

 Green; similar to repens Motschulsky but with coarser sculpture; 

 propodeum with an inverted V-shaped carina and with thimble-like 

 punctures; antennae testaceous, with one ring joint, the first joint of 

 the funicle longer than the pedicel; the club moderately enlarged; 

 metapleurae with the disk shiny, with a few impressed lines visible 

 only under high magnification ; front and middle legs testaceous, more 

 or less infuscated and the coxae with some green at bases; hind coxae 

 as long as their femora, green; hind femora outwardly green, with 

 about 7 short teeth, the two apical ones the longest; rest of hind legs 

 testaceous; abdomen subsessile. 



Male. — (The abdomen and the apical joints of the antennae miss- 

 ing.) Similar to the female in structure. 



Habitat. — Tailioku, Formosa. 



Specimens reared from the egg masses of Paratenodera aridifolia 

 by Prof. T. Shiraki (after whom the species is named) and sent under 

 his No. 109. 



Type.—C&t. No. 15089, U.S.N.M. 



P. repens Motschulsky has the teeth on the hind femora long and 

 the whole of the metapleurae distinctly sculptured with parallel 

 rugul^. 



Family EUPELMID^. 



BRUCHOCIDA, new genus. 



Belongs to the tribe Eupelmini as defined by Ashmead ; mandibles 

 3-toothed; maxillary palpi with the apical joint greatly enlarged and 

 flattened in the female and slightly so in the male; eyes with short 

 inconspicuous hairs; in the female the marginal vein about one-half 

 as long as the submarginal, about twice as long as the postmarginal; 



