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85. Propodeum pale or yellow, remainder of thorax and head entirely dark 



brown or blackish, A moderately small species without any striking 

 characters. (Washington, D. C.) 72. immaculatus Howard. 



86. Mesoscutum particolored, or yellow, or alutaceous or ferruginous 89 



Mesoscutum entirely black or brownish 87 



87. Coxae of middle and hind legs black. (Fore legs not seen) 88 



Legs, head, and antennae entirely yellow. Parapsides and axillae mostly 



yellow. Pronotum, mesoscutum, and abdomen entirely black ; median 

 part of propodeum black ; remainder of body mostly pale yellow. 

 (France) 73. pulchellus Westwood. 



88. Legs yellow except for the middle and hind coxae which are black. (Fore 



legs missing on specimen studied.) Face and cheeks blackish to dark 

 brown. Pronotum, mesoscutum, axillae, and abdomen black. Parapsides 

 and tegulae suffused with brownish. Scutellum with the anterior part 

 black or entirely orange yellow. Metanotum and propodeum mostly 

 yellow. (Italy) 74. howardi Masi. 



89. Apex of scutellum furnished with small setae in addition to a pair of 



bristles as long as the scutellum 90 



Disk of scutellum about as setose as the mesoscutum, the sides and apex 

 bare except for the paired bristles. Orange yellow with the following 

 parts black : center of occiput, pronotum, anterior margin of mesoscutum, 

 a spot on the expanded part and the wedge-shaped base of each parapsis, 

 metanotum except the median part, abdomen except the basal angles and 

 posterior to the cereal plates. Sternites mostly yellow. According to 

 Girault, autenual scape yellow, remainder black. (Africa.) 



75. nigropleurum Girault. 



90. Lemon yellow marked with dark brown or fuscous as follows : exposed part 



of pronotum, anterior one-half or so of mesoscutum arcuately, sides of 

 metanotum, center of propodeum between the longitudinal carinae, petiole, 

 and abdomen. Legs entirely pale yellow. (China.) 



76. silvestrii, new species. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES 

 1. COCCOPHAGUS REDINI Girault 



Plate 7, Figure 15; Plate 12, Figure 138 



Coccopliagus redini Girault, Homo Peruiciosus and New Hymenoptera. 

 (Chalcidoidea, Braconidae). Brisbane, Australia, April 1924, p. 4. 

 (Author's publication.) 



The type female has been crushed beneath the cover glass (fig. 

 138). Cracks in the cover glass and excess balsam obscure parts to 

 some extent. This species should be recognized without any diffi- 

 culty by the unusually long first funicle joint and by the axillae 

 which are as densely setose as the mesoscutum. 



Feinale. — Face and cheeks light lemon yellow, dorsum of head 

 more brownish. Thorax yellow except the pronotum, which is 

 entirely black, and the propodeum, which is blackish laterally. Abdo- 

 men entirely blackish. Legs pale yellow. Parts of antennae 

 missing in the type ; apparently pedicel and first two or three funicle 

 joints fuscous ; scape supposedly concolorous with face ; club yellow- 

 ish. The coloration of antennae is difficult to observe. 



