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reduced to a narrow smooth strip, propodeum with a distinct median, 

 and lateral carina?, the surface between them finely roughened; 

 abdomen as long as the head and thorax combined. 



Male . — Unkn o wn . 



Habitat. — Mysore, India. 



Two specimens reared from Ophiusa melicerta and sent by ]\Ir. Cole- 

 man under his number 37. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14350, U.S.N.M. 



Subfamily ELA.CIIEiR'nN./gE:. 

 EUPLECTRUS NYCTEMER.ffi:, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.75 mm. Black, the acape, pedicel, and legs, 

 including coxae, testaceous; rest of antennae Ught brown; pedicel 

 about as long as joint one of funicle, the latter not distinctly longer 

 than the second joint ; third and fourth joints about as long as second ; 

 middle lobe of mesoscutum reticulately rugose, at rear medially with 

 one or two longitudinal rugose wliich extend forward about one-third 

 the length of the mesoscutum; lateral lobes finely rugulose; scutellum 

 basally indistinctly reticulate; firet joint of hind tarsi almost twice as 

 long as second, longer spur on hmd tibiae not reaching apex of second 

 tarsal joint; abdomen with a large testaceous spot, near base. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — Bangalore, Mysore, India. 



Four specunens reared from the larva of Nyctemera lactidnia and 

 sent b}^ Mr. Coleman under his number 189. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14347, U.S.N.M. 



Easily separated from E. manilse, and E. Tioehelei by the row of pits 

 at the base of the metathorax being covered by the scutellum; E. 

 manilse has the pedicel distinctly shorter than the first joint of the 

 funicle ; E. Tcoehelei is larger, more robust, and has the legs distinctly 

 reddish. 



Subfamily F:TJI.0I>ITIN"^E. 

 SYMPIESIS COMPEREI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2 mm. Dark blue-green, the head more 

 bluish, the abdomen basally more greenish, the apical two-thirds of 

 abdomen aenous; legs, except coxae, scape and pedicel of antennae, 

 testaceous; rest of antennae dark brown; face below antennae finely 

 reticulated with, impressed lines, above antennae these gradually dis- 

 appearing; pedicel short, hardly half the length of the first joint of 

 funicle, joints 2-4 of funicle subequal in length, slightly shorter than 

 the first, and each about as long as the club; mesonotum, including 

 axillae and scutellum, with shallow thimblehko punctures those on 

 the median lobe of mesoscutum coarse, those on axillae finest; 

 metanotum and propedoum smooth, the latter with a median carmae 



