NO. 1979. DESCRIPTT0^'8 OF NEW HYMENOPTERA, 6— CRAWFORD. 247 

 BRUCHOCIDA ORIENTALIS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 4 mm, ; sheaths of ovipositor exposed 1 mm. 

 Bronzy, with tints of green, the scape of antennae reddish, pedicel green, 

 rest of antennae dark brown; first joint of funicle about one and one- 

 half times as long as the pedicel, the following joints successively 

 decreasing in length, the last somewhat longer than broad; very 

 similar in sculpture to B. vuilleti; wings with white hair as far out 

 as the apex of submarginal vein, beyond this the hau'S dark, longer 

 and more numerous than in vuilleti and the wings somewhat infus- 

 cated; front and hind coxae bronzy; front and middle legs and mid- 

 dle coxae reddish ; hind legs darker with bronzy tints ; tarsi white. 



Three females Bangalore, India, reared from Bruchus cliinensis. 

 (L. C, Coleman, collector.) 



Type.— C&t. No. 15301, U.S.N.M. 



Easily separated from B. vuilleti by the color and the white hairs 

 on the base of the wings. 



TANAOSTIGMODES PORTORICENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 1.8 mm. Deep brown or blackish-brown; 

 face with large punctures separated from each other by somewhat 

 less than the width of a puncture; scape yellowish, pedicel light 

 brown, rest of antennae dark brown; first joint of funicle longer than 

 the pedicel ; extreme lateral edges of mesoscutum and prepectus some- 

 what lighter than rest of mesoscutum; parapsidal furrows indistinct 

 except from point of juncture to apex of scutum; anterior of the 

 furrows the surface very finely almost transversely rugulose; back 

 of them the rugulae irregular appearing almost as very fine crowded 

 punctures or thimble-like punctures; axillae with sculpture similar to 

 that on rear of scutum but punctures in the outer portion much finer; 

 base of scutellum with similar sculpture, rest with somewhat finer 

 and longitudinally elongate sculpture making them appear as if in 

 rows and the surface therefore somewhat longitudinally rugulose, 

 especially medially; femora, except apices, brown; rest of legs yel- 

 lowish; wings hyaline, veins brown, the postmarginal and stigmal 

 subequal in length and shorter than the marginal. 



Male. — Length about 1 .6 mm. Similar to the female but the face 

 below the antennae medially about the color of the prepectus; joints 

 of funicle (1-6) produced on one side, the first the most and the rest 

 successively less so that the fifth and sixth are very slightly so; 

 joints of funicle clothed with long whitish hairs; veins of wings 

 yellowish. 



Habitat. — Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15315, U.S.N.M. 



Three females and one male with the additional data I. 27, 1910, 

 and the number H 1623. (C. W. Hooker, collector.) 



