NO. 2293. PARASITIC CHALCIDOID FLIES— TIMBERLAKE. 161 



width of eye, 0.235; length of antenna, 1.19; width of mesoscutum, 

 0.54; length of forewing, 1.43; width of forewing, 0.535; length of 

 ovipositor, 0.30 mm. 



Scutelluni and most of pro thorax cadmium yellow (R.), the head 

 somewhat paler or light cadmium yellow (R.) suffused with deeper 

 yellow or brownish at the vertex; pronotum, except on the sides, and 

 the mesoscutum greenish black, with a metallic luster, axiUae dark red- 

 dish brown or more or less ])rown medially, otherwise like scuteUum, 

 metanotum and propodeum purer shining black; anterior corner of 

 mesopleura cadmium yeUov^'^ shading gradually into blackish brown 

 on the remaining part which is sliining but hardly metaEic; teguiae 

 white with the posterior margin broadl}- dark brown; abdomen 

 black, appearing slightly bluish in certain lights, or iridescent metallic 

 in others, the venter duller and more brownish; ovipositor sheaths 

 pale cadmium yellow with apex blackish brown. Antennae blackish 

 brown shading into yellowish v/hite or pale yellow on distal half of 

 flagellum, the last three funicic joints pale and the preceding joint 

 also in some specimens. All the coxae dark brown or blackish brown, 

 the front pair somewhat suffused with brov»mish yellow; front femora 

 brownish yellow, the tibiae and tarsi brownish black; middle legs 

 (except coxae) yellowish white with the tibiae pale brown, darker 

 along upper margin; hind femora blackish brown with the lower 

 margin narrowly j^ellowish, or entirely brownish yellow, darker at 

 base and more yellowish toward apex and along inferior margin, the 

 tibiae blackish, and tlie hind tarsi j'eilowish white vvdth the last joint 

 somev/hat brownish. Wings banded as in II.jiam.imus except as noted 

 above. Pubescence on head very fine, and silky, whitish in color; 

 on the pronotum and scutum rather abundant, conspicuous, silvery 

 white in color, on the scuteUum appearing whitish in certain lights, 

 but in others blackish, the apex furnished with about three or four 

 longer hairs on each side, which are suberect and inclined inward to 

 inclose a quadrate bare spot; metapleura and hmd coxae furnished 

 with usual appressed silvery white pubescence. 



Male. — Similar to the female except tliat the scape has a rather 

 deep, rounded notch or ernargination just bej^ond the middle on the 

 upper margin. The coloration of the single specimen is slightly 

 paler than in any of the females, as the axillae are practically entirely 

 concolorous with the scuteUum, the mesopleura more brownish, 

 and the middle tibiae yellow instead of pale brown. Length of 

 body, 1.57 mm. 



Redescribed from three females and one male reared from larvae 

 of Scymnus hipunciatus Kugelann, Manila, Philippine Islands (H. S. 

 Smith and D. T. FuUaway). The host may not be correctly de- 



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