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below. Winji's faintly iufuscated, especially near base. Body stout, 

 compact, abdomen sessile, thorax ratlier strongly arclied. 



Type. — jSTo. 3263, U.S.N.31. Two female specimens reared by Mr. E. 

 Ernest Cxreen, Punduloya, Ceylon, from Uriococcus. Xamed for Mr. 

 Fred. Enock, of London, who lias devoted considerable attention to the 

 Mymarid;^ and Las made tlie most beautiful slide mounts of tliese 

 minute creatures Mliicli I have seen. 



Family ICHXEUMOXID.E. 



Sialalainily OrHIO^SriHSr^fE. 



Genus CHAROPS, Holmgren. 

 Charops, Holmgren, Sveiisk. Akad. Handl., 1858, n. 8, 39. 



CHAROPS ERYTHROGASTER, new species (Ashmead). 



Female. — Length, G.5 mm. Head, thorax, and antenn.e, except scape 

 beneath, blaclc, clothed with aline grayish pubescence; scaj^e beneath, 

 legs, except nuddle and hindcoxie, and abdomen, except petiole, rufous; 

 middle and hind coxa? and petiole black, first joint of hind trochanters, 

 extreme base of hind femora, and tarsi more or less dusky; mandibles, 

 pali^i, and teguhe whitish. The head, anteroposteriorly, is thin, with 

 the vertex acute; eyes subreniform; antennte filiform, extending to the 

 second abdominal segment, with several of the an te-penultimate joints 

 transverse, about three times wider than long. Thorax short ovate, 

 closely, opaquely punctate, without parapsidal furrows, the metathorax 

 abrupt, without carin;i?, the spiracles oval. Wings hyaline, the veins 

 brown-black, the stigma narrow, lanceolate, the third discoidal cell 

 longer than the first, the second recurrent nervure joining" the cubitus 

 behind the transverse cubital nervure. Abdomen, with the jjetiole, 

 twice as long as the thorax, compressed, the petiole as long as the 

 middle femur, the body of abdomen more than twice as long as the 

 petiole, the ovipositor hardly projecting, with black sheaths. 



Male. — Length, G mm. Agrees with the female, except that all coxre 

 are black, the middle legs are more or less piceous, the hind legs black, 

 while the abdomen, except the ventral membranous part, is entirely 

 black. 



Habitat. — Punduloya, Ceylon. 



Type. — Xo. 3204, U.S.N.jNL One female and one male, bred by Mr. 

 E. Ernest Green, from the larva of Euterota, sp. 



Subfamily CTI^lTFTHSTJE:. 



Genus HEMITELES, Gravenhorst. 



Remifeles, Gkavexhorst, Ichu. Eur., II, p. 780, 1829. 



HEMITELES BRACHYCYTTARI, new species (Ashmead). 



Female. — Length, 5 mm.; ovipositor about one third the length of 

 abdomen. Head and thorax black, minutely, closely punctate; clypeus 

 polished, impunctate; mandibles, palpi, annulus on antennte, superior 



