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Color black ; aiiteniial scape and pedicel lioney-j^ellow, flagelluin brown ; 

 teguhe and mouth parts and all legs, including coxie, honey-yellow; a 

 large honey-yellow spot on venter of abdomen; indications ofacorres 

 ponding dorsal spot, which is fainter in some specimens than in others; 

 wings hyaline. The male does not differ, except sexually, from the 

 female. 



Differs from U.furnhts mainly in the more ])ronounced sculpturing of 

 the mesonotum, in the greater size and depth of the notal impressions, 

 anil in the greater length and strength of the bristles. 



Types. — Xo. 3261, TJ.S.lSr.M. Many male and female specimens reared 

 from the larva of Euproctis fraterna by E. Ernest Green, Punduloya, 

 Ceylon. 



Su"bfamily ETvTXEDOlSrilsr^. 



Genus HOLCOPELTE, Forster. 

 Holcopelte, Fokster, Hyriieu. Stud., II, 78. 18.j6. 



A species of this genus, in almost unrecognizable condition, labeled 

 as having been reared from Tachardia alhhzia', was among the parasites 

 received. All of the species of this genns are hyperparasites, and this 

 species may have for its host one of the foregoing insects described as 

 j)arasitic upon Tachardia. 



Sulafaiiiily a^ETR^STICKIlSrJE:. 



Genus TETRASTICHUS, Haliday. 

 Tetrastichus. 1I.\lii)AY. Trans. Eut. Soc. Loml., Ill, 297, lS4o. 



Several specimens of an unrecognizable species of this genus were 

 also found in this collection, also labeled as having been reared from 

 Tarh((7'tlia alhizzia\ The S])ecies of this genus are also hyperj^arasites 

 without exception, so far as known, and the true host of Mr. Green's 

 forms to be found among the larger parasites which he reared from the 

 lac insect. 



Family MYMAEID^. 



Admitting family rank for this interesting group of extremely minute 

 parasitic Hymeuoptera, as originally projiosed by Haliday and later 

 adopted by Ashmead, it is deemed advisable at the present time to 

 establish two subfamilies, tlie first of which, called the Mymarinre, 

 including those forms which have 4-jointed tarsi, will contain the genera 

 Jlfijniar, Uustochus, J^oriclytus, Cosmocoma^ Caraphractus, Stictothrix, 

 A)i((2)lie.s, Anagrus, and FoJyncma ; wliile the second, which may be 

 called the Gonatocerime, and contains those forms which have 5-jointed 

 tarsi, will include tlie genera Gonatoccrus, Campioptera, Ooctonus, 

 JjimaciSy Ahqjfxfi, and Ititus. 



