NO. 18S0. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HY MEN OPTER A— CRAWFORD. 7 



testaceous, pedicel greenish, basal joints of funicle aeneous, rest of 

 antennae brown; pedicel hardly twice as long as broad; first joint of 

 funicle almost twice as long as pedicel; 2-5 joints successively 

 decreasing in length, joints 6 and 7 subquadrate; club about as long 

 as first joint of funicle; median and lateral lobes of mesoscutum 

 finely reticulated with impressed lines, the former at' rear with 

 shallow crowded punctures; scutellum and axillae with tliimble-hke 

 punctures; mesopleurae finely striate with impressed lines; wings 

 dusky with hyaUne bases and a curved hyaline band about middle of 

 marginal vein, this band about as wide as the length of the stigmal 

 vein, the concave side outward; marginal vein almost as long as the 

 submarginal, postmarginal about half as long as marginal, stigmal 

 less than half as long as postmarginal; abdomen short, the dorsum 

 lineolate. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — Bangalore, Mysore, India. 



Two specimens reared from the eggs of Degonetus serratus and sent 

 by Mr. L. C. Coleman (for whom the species is named) under his 

 number 118. 



In size and general appearance this species resembles A. stantoni 

 Aslimead fi'om the Philippine Islands, but that species is much 

 greener and has the median lobe of the mesoscutum with thimble- 

 like punctures. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14344, U.S.N.M. 



Family EULOPHID^. 



Snlafamily ENTKDON"IISr^. 

 PLEUROTROPIS FOVEOLATUS, new species. 



Femule. — Length about 1.25 mm. Deep purplish aeneous with 

 the propodeum and the base of the abdomen green; antennas brown, 

 more or less metallic; face above insertion of antennae, both above 

 and below V-shaped furrow, and median lobe of mesoscutum reticu- 

 lately rugose; lateral lobes of mesoscutum Avdth similar but less dis- 

 tinct sculpture and caudad, smooth; median lobe at apex longi- 

 tudmally rugose and with two large foveae; scutellum \\atli*the basal 

 half longitudinally rugose, the apical half mth large reticulations; 

 j)ropodeum polished, \vith two well separated medial carina? and the 

 lateral caringe distinct; legs metalhc, in part brown, the tarsi whitish. 



Male. — Length about 1 mm. Similar to the female, the head green, 

 face purple; sculpture of the face not so strong as in female. 



Habitat. — Bangalore, Mysore, India. 



Two females and two males reared from larvae of Epilachna, vigin- 

 tiocto punctata, and sent by ^Mr. Coleman under his number 134. 



This species has the mesoscutum bifoveolate as in P. bifoveohtus 

 Ashmead, but that species has the mesoscutum transversely rugulose. 



Type.—Cat. No. 14345, U.S.N.M. 



