250 PROCEEDINOS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.45. 



Family PTEROMALID^. 



BRUCHOBIUS LATICEPS Ashmead. 



Female. — Type, length about 2.5 mm. Green, with brassy tinges; 

 head wider than thorax, head and thorax, including pleurae and 

 propodeum, with coarse thimble-Hke punctures, those on the mesono- 

 tum so coarse as to somewhat resemble irregular reticulations; 

 antennae 13-jointed, honey color, with three ring joints, the third 

 subquadrate; first joint of funicle almost twice as long as pedicel, the 

 following joii^ts almost subequal in length, the second joint of funicle 

 about two-tliirds as long as first; pronotum sharply truncate ante- 

 riorly; propodeum completely covered with thimble-Hke punctures, 

 with lateral folds, the spiracles large, elongate-ovate, situated basad; 

 marginal vein short, about one-third as long as submarginal; post- 

 marginal slightly longer than marginal; stigmal and marginal sub- 

 equal in length; femora and bases of tibiae reddish-honey color; rest 

 of tibiae and tarsi whitish; abdomen about as long as head and thorax 

 combined. 



Male. — Length about 1.75 mm. Similar to the female; antennae 

 with two ring joints, the third being elongated into a joint of the 

 funicle, being as long as the pedicel, but not as long as the following 

 joint of the funicle; abdomen with a large basal white spot. 



The type material consists of four females and four males and is 

 labeled "Washmgton, D. C, Nov. 12, 1896;" bred from Bruchus 

 quadrimaculatus. (F. C. Pratt, collector.) 



There are other specimens with the same record which were not 

 included in the type material, and one of these on dissection shows 

 the right mandible to be 4-toothed and the left 3-toothed. 



BRUCHOBIUS COLEMANI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2.5 mm. Similar m color and sculpture 

 to B. laticeps Ashmead, but the third ring joint transverse; marginal 

 vein over half as long as the submarginal; postmarginal shorter than 

 the marginal (about as 12:17); stigmal shorter than postmarginal 

 (about as 8:12); stigmal knob enlarged; femora dark, the hind 

 femora mostly greenish anteriorly. 



Male. — Length about 2 mm. Similar to the female, the antennae 

 with two ring joints, the scape and pedicel reddish-honey color, 

 funicle somewhat lighter, club darker; first joint of funicle as long 

 as the second; legs reddish-honey color; hind femora somewhat 

 darkened and with a small spot with metallic reflections; abdomen 

 no longer than propodeum. 



Habitat. — Bangalore, Mysore, India. 



Tijpe.—C^t. No. 15302, U.S.N.M. 



Described from six females and four males from a series from 

 Bruchus chinensis. (L. C. Coleman, collector.) 



In this species also the right mandible is 4-toothed and the left 

 3-toothed. 



