ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. XVU 



palpi black; antenniB 11-jointed. long, pubescent: scape long, slightly curved and 

 slightly dilated, white except at tip; pedicel long it and following jointg black, 

 each jdnt flattened and gradually widening towards club; thorax collar black, 

 mesothorax, scutellum and pleura, microscopically longitudinally stngose; scutel- 

 lum has, towards tip. a. tuft of coarse, black bristles arranged in two rows ; abdo- 

 men black, or blue-black, brassy beneath and with a few long hairs at s.des ; all 

 coxffi are pure white, front femora white, tibiee honey yellow, brownish at tips, 

 tarsi yellowish white, middle femora, tibiae and tarsi honey yellow, hmd femora, 

 tibise and tibial spur dark brown, tarsi excepting basal portion of first joint white 

 ungues dusky; wings brown, with a narrow white transverse band below base ot 



stigma. , J 11 



The I is very similar to 9 , excepting the antennal joints are not gradually 

 widened towards tip, and the extreme tip of club is sometimes white or pale ; the 

 mesothorax is slightly depressed and the abdomen is more decidedly blue. 



Described from several specimens bred from Coccid Dactyhpius 

 adonidum Linn. 



Sub-family— PTEROMALIN^. 

 SEIHIOTEL.L.IJIS Westwood. 



22. Semiotelliis ficigerse n. sp. 



% -Len<^th .10 inch. Metallic green, shallowly punctate and covered with 

 short, white%ubescence; head much wider than thorax, face finely grooved the 

 grooves converging towards mouth; antenna 11-jointed, scape yellow, pedicel 

 black densely flagellar joints pubescent and difiicult to determine ; thorax : collar 

 very short hardly visible from above; parapsidal grooves obliterated ; scutellum 

 is more finely punctate than the mesoscutum, with the scapulae still less punctured, 

 being almost smooth and somewhat ^neous; abdomen black, smooth and shining 

 with first segment above brassy green ; legs black with tips of femora, tibi^ and 

 tarsi pale, almost white; wings hyaline, veins brownish, stigma very long, stigmal 

 vein long, clavate at tip and with a very long postmargmal vein. 



9 -Length 12-.14 inch. Dark metallic brown, sparsely covered with short, 

 stout, white pubescence and very uniformly punctate; head broader than thorax; 

 eves prominent, punctures on face very uniform, but becoming smaller towards 

 mouth, presenting a somewhat granulated appearance under the microscope; 

 labrum black; antenna black, scape fulvous, parapsidal grooves indistinct, ex- 

 tendincr obliquely only half way on mesoscutum; legs yellowish, tibise and feet 

 pale un-ues brown, with the hind femora brown and metallic green above; ab- 

 domen pointed, ovate, very dark metallic green, with the segments finely sculp- 

 tured with undulations; wings hyaline, veins brown, marginal vein two-thirds 

 the length of submarginal, postmarginal is half the length of marginal and the 

 stigmal ends in a large knob. 



In some specimens the upper surface of middle and anterior femora is brown. 



Described from specimens bred May, 1881, from gall Ct/nips Jicigera 

 Ash. 



MONTHLY PKOC. ENT. SEC. A. N. S. (3) DECEMBER, 1885. 



