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coarsely, densely umbilicate-piinctate, this sculpture extending onto 

 base of clypeus and obscuring the separating furrow; malar space 

 nearly as long as basal width of mandible, rugose before and striate 

 behind malar furrow ; scape nearlj^ twice as long as thick, about twice 

 as long as pedicel and much longer than first joint of flagellum; 

 flagellum 27-jointed, fully twice as thick at base as at apex and 

 tapering gi\adually, the joints successively very slightly shorter from 

 base to apex. 



Thorax nearl}- as deep as long; densely punctate dorsally, mostly 

 polished laterally, with all lateral furrows strongly foveolate ; prono- 

 tum punctate along humeral margin; notaulices not defined; scutel- 

 lum more coarsely punctate than mesoscutum, scutellar furrow 

 foveolate; mesopleural furrow and sternaulices strongly foveolate; 

 propodeum polished, margins of areas foveolate; median areas narrow, 

 areola pentagonal with costulae behind middle ; inner hind calcarium 

 about three-fourths as long as basitarsus; tarsus hardly as long as 

 tibia, basitarsus hardly longer than joints 2 and 3 combined. 



Abdomen little more than half as broad as thorax; with dense, 

 long pubescence except on broad, polished, median, apical areas of 

 first three tergites and middle areas of other tergites. Black; man- 

 dibles and polished apical portion of clypeus light brownish; palpi 

 white: antenna fuscous, stramineous basally; v/ings hyaline, vena- 

 tion brown, stigma paler, costa and radix stramineous, tegula tes- 

 taceous; front and middle legs stramineous; hind coxa piceous, 

 stramineous ventrally, trochanter stramineous, femur and tibia rufo- 

 fuscous, femur paler apically; joints 2-4 of tarsus paler than basi- 

 tarsus; petiole whitish, postpetiole black; rest of abdomen rufotes- 

 taceus, paler toward apex, tergite 2 partly reddish piceous toward 

 apex; ovipositor sheath brownish yellow. 



Male. — Very similar to female in both structure and color, but 

 tergites beyond first brownish, with base and sides of second and 

 basal angles of third whitish; genitalia white. 



Host. — Apoderus quoAripunctatits Gyllenhal. 



Type locality. — Tjipetir, Java. 



ry;?^.— U.S.N.M. No. 53499. 



One female and two males reared in 1936 b}^ J. Van der Veclit. 



Genus PSEUDERIPTERNUS Viereck 



PSEUDERIPTERNUS ELONGATUS (Davis), new combination 



Ateleuti (sic!) eJongatns Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 362, 1897. 

 Pseuderipfernus f/racUipes Cxtshtuan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 507, 1917. 

 New synonymy. 



Paratype a of gracUlpes has been compared with the type of 

 elongatus and found almost identical. 



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