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DIMEROMICRUS ASHMEADI, new species. 



Female. Length 1 .(> mm. Head and thorax bluish green; abdo- 

 men medially brown; head finely lineolated; antennae brown; scape 



yellow; thorax transversely lineolated; legs yellow; coxa 1 and hind 

 femora except tips green; abdomen very finely lineolated; ovipositor 

 about as long as abdomen. 



Male. — Lengt h 1 .4 mm. Similar to female, but more brassy green; 

 mesothorax more coarsely sculptured, abdomen more yellowish. 



Manila. P. T. (R. E. Brown, collector.) 



Type.— Cm. No. 12898, U.S.N.M. 



Dedicated to the late Dr. W. H. Ashmead. 



Subfamily PODAGBIONIN.i:. 

 PODAGRION PHILIPPINENSIS, new species. 



Female. -Length 2.25 nun., ovipositor .'> nun.; deep bine, antennae 

 brownish, scape lighter, ring joint small; head and thorax closely 

 reticulated by slightly raised lines, becoming stronger toward rear of 

 mesonotum and on scutellum; parapsidal areas almost smooth, the 

 reticulation very indistinct; scutellum posteriorly and axillae im- 

 punctate; base of metathorax with two diverging carinae running 

 backward from medial anterior margin, these joined by two running 

 forward from apex of metathorax forming a diamond-shaped area; 

 this area finely rugose, rest of metathorax coarsely rugose; front and 

 middle femora brown, hind bluish; tibiae mostly brownish, tarsi 

 light; hind femora with nine teeth. 



Manila, P. I. (R. E. Brown, collector.) 



Type. Cat. X,,. 12899, Q.S.N.M. 



PODAGRION ASHMEADI, new species. 



Female. — Length 2.75 mm.; ovipositor about I mm.; head and 

 thorax did I green, abdomen yellowish, with the base metallic and apical 

 half brown; head closely and strongly punctured; antenna 1 yellowish, 

 club dark, ring joint longer than wide; pro- and mesothorax finely 

 rugoso-punctate, becoming larger, distinct punct ures on rear of meso 

 QOtum and scutellum; rear of scutellum and axillae impunctate, 

 finely roughened; parapsidal grooves obscured by roughness of sculp- 

 ture; metathorax irregularly rugose, slightly back of middle with a 

 transverse ruga stronger than the rest; front and middle legs, includ- 

 ing coxae, yellow; hind coxa- at base metallic, rest yellowish: hind 

 femora and tibia' more or less obscured with dusky, their tarsi yel- 

 lowish; hind femora with eight teeth. 



Manila, P. I. (R. E. Brown, collector.) 



Type. -Cat. No. 12900, C.S.N.M. 



Named I'm- Dr. \Y. 1 1. Ashmead. 





