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DIAGLYPTIDEA ROEPKEI, new spedes. 



Type-locality. — Salatiga, Java, labeled, "Ex. Zaratha oramerella, 

 W. Roepke." 



Type.— Cat. No. 15340, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm. ; face as seen from in front with the pro- 

 portion of its greatest width to the length from the top of the head 

 to the anterior edge of the clypeus as 37:25, lateral ocelli apparently 

 a little nearer to the anterior ocellus than to each other, but appar- 

 ently a little nearer to each other than to the eye margin, head black, 

 front polished laterally, sculptured medially, face finely sculptured, 

 clypeus punctured, its anterior edge virtually straight, cheeks, tem- 

 ples, and malar space polished, mouth parts, including the mandibles 

 and palpi, various shades of pale stramineous, the mandibles with 

 castaneous tips, maxillary palpi distinctly longer than the head is 

 wide in front, the third joint longest and apparently as long as the 

 first flagellar joint, which latter is apparently ten times as long as 

 wide at base, scape and pedicel pale stramineous, almost whitish like 

 the palpi, flagel 29-jointed and blackish broAvn except for the first and 

 second joints, which are brownish stramineous except for the second 

 joint, which is apically concolorous with the rest of the flagel; thorax 

 and its appendages, except as noted below, strammeous, dorsulum 

 and scutel finely sculptured and dullish; claws and empodii brownish, 

 mid and hind onychii blackish or brownish but stramineous at base, 

 wings almost colorless but with a famt brownish tinge, the costa 

 dark, the stigma and veins stramineous, nervellus broken a little 

 below the middle, areolet unusual in outline for this tribe, in that it 

 forms an oblong with the upper side undeveloped; propodeum stra- 

 mineous except for the first pleural area and the basal area, which 

 are black, areola partly brownish, propodeum sculptured and shining; 

 abdomen stramineous except for blackish marks on the first, dorsal 

 segment and a black pigmentation extending from the apical third of 

 the second segment down the middle of the dorsum almost to the end 

 of the fifth, dorsal segment without a break except for the stra- 

 mineous edges of the segments involved, first, dorsal segment longi- 

 tudinally striate except along the apical margin, second, dorsal seg- 

 ment more or less longitudinally striate, thyridia shining, the space 

 between them narrower than the greatest length of either of the 

 thyridia, the remaining dorsal segments polished, exserted portion of 

 the ovipositor a little longer than the first, dorsal, abdominal 

 segment. 



Allotype. — Differs from the type especially in the first joint of the 

 flagel, which is apparently seven times as long as wide at base, in 

 the 25-jointed flagel, which has the first joint apically and the second 

 joint entirely concolorous with the rest of the flagel, in the thorax 

 which is black with mostly pale appendages barring all the tarsi and 



