no. 3639 PTEROMALIDAE — HEDQVIST 9 



Macromesus javensis, new species 



Female. — Length 2.0-2.5 mm. Head dark blue with tint of violet. 

 Face below toruli testaceous with metallic tint of blue. Scape, pedicel, 

 and first funicle segment yellowish brown. Thorax yellowish brown, 

 along notaulices dark brown. Legs stramineous. Gaster blue with 

 tint of violet. Wing veins pale yellowish brown. 



Head (fig. 66) semiglobular, eyes large. Antennae inserted just 

 above level of ventral margin of eyes. Scape short, enlarged, not 

 reaching median ocellus. All funicle segments elongate, much longer 

 than wide. Punctation of head consists of fine reticulation. Meso- 

 notum with well-defined notaulices. Pro- and mesonotum, scutellum, 

 and metanotum dorsally with equal reticulation. Propodeum medially 

 shorter than length of metanotum, with six longitudinal carinae. 

 Both head and thorax with few scattered black setae. Gaster longer 

 than head plus thorax and with a stylet-shaped posterior part. Fore- 

 wing (fig. 6a) with marginal vein longer than postmarginal vein. 



Male. — Length 1.9-2.2 mm. Similar to female, but gaster with 

 more yellowish brown at anterior part of gaster. Propodeum with 

 plicae; antennae with more setae on funicle segments. 



Figure 5. — Posterior part of gaster, lateral view: a, Epistenia coeruleata Westwood; b, E. 

 polita (Say); c, E. burksi, new species. Hind femur and tibia: d, E. odyneri Ashmead. 



