REPORT ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF INDL^N PARASITIC 



HYMENOPTERA. 



By A. B. Gahan. 



Of the Bureau of Entomology ^ United States Department of Agriculture. 



The Hyrtienoptera listed and described in the following pages and 

 belonging to the superfamilies Chalcidoidea and Serphidoidea are 

 part of a lot of material received by the Bureau of Entomology from 

 Ramakrishna Ayyar, acting government entomologist, Madras Agri- 

 cultural College, Coimbatore, Southern India. Most of it is reared 

 material, although in many instances the name of the host insect is 

 unknown. A large part is said to have been reared from galls on 

 various plants and some of the Eurytomids may prove to be phyto- 

 phagous. The new species of BrucTiophagus will without much doubt 

 prove to be a destroyer of the seeds contained in the pods from 

 which it was reared. 



The collection as a whole forms an interesting addition to the as 

 yet largely unknown Indian fauna. In addition to the forms 

 described here this lot of material contained a number of species of 

 Eulophidae and Elasmidae which will be treated separately by Mr. 

 J. C. Crawford, of the Bureau of Entomology, who has cooperated 

 with the writer in determination of the entire lot. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family EURYTOMIDAE. 



BRUCHOPHAGUS MELLIPES, new species. 



Agrees nicely with the generic characterization by Ashmead. 

 Readily distinguished by the reddish testaceous legs from all described 

 species at present placed in the genus. 



Female. — Length, 2.4 mm. Head strongly umbilicately punctate; 

 antennae short; first funicle joint a little longer than broad, about 

 equal to the pedicel in length but distinctly thicker ; following funicle 

 joints subquadrate or slightly transverse; club not quite as long as 

 the three preceding funicle joints, 3-jointed, the joints subequal in 

 length; clypeus and a slight median longitudinal ridge below the 

 antennae shining, impunctate; pronotum, mesoscutum, and scutel- 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 56,— No. 2299. 

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