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lum umbilicately punctate like the head; propodeum strongly 

 declivous, approaching perpendicular, rugoso-punctate laterally, 

 with a broad, very slightly concave median area, which is coarsely, 

 irregularly, longitudinally rugose, and bounded anteriorly and 

 laterally by carinae, the two lateral carinae converging posteriorly; 

 marginal vein scarcely as long as the stigmal, somewhat thickened; 

 postmarginal distinctly longer than either the marginal or the stig- 

 mal, and slender; stigmal knob rather large and squarely truncate 

 at apex;discal cihation delicate; abdomen robust, conic ovate, not 

 compressed, the third tergite the largest, approximately twice the 

 length of the second; second and fourth tergites subequal; those 

 beyond the fourth shorter and subequal to each other; apex of 

 ovipositor barely exserted ; fourth tergite faintly reticulated medially, 

 otherwise the abdomen is pohshed. Black, opaque; the antennal 

 scape reddish testaceous, the fiagellum brownish testaceous; all legs, 

 except their coxae and the basal half, more or less, of the fore and 

 hind femora, reddish testaceous; coxae black; fore and hind fem^ora 

 brownish or blackish basally; ovipositor sheath pale testaceous; 

 wings hyaline, venation pale testaceous. 



Male unknown. 



Type-locality. — Coimbatore, South India. 



Type.— C^t. No. 22279, U.S.N.M. 



Four females received by the Bureau of Entomology from Rama- 

 krishna Ayyar, and labeled as follows: "Galls in Daincha pods. 

 Insectary. 7-IX-1914." Also one female from the same source, 

 labeled: "From Red gram pods. Y. R., collector, 11-1-1916." 

 By "red gram" pods is probably meant the pods of Vigna sinensis. 



This species, like its congener B.funelris, will in all probability be 

 found to be a true seed Chalcid, destroying the seeds of the plant 

 from which it was reared. 



EURYTOMA PARASAE. new species. 



Female. — Length, 3.8 nnn. Head coarsely imibilicately punctate; 

 face medially with a low, nearly smooth, longitudinal ridge on 

 either side of which the punctures are modified to form several short, 

 irregular, striatiform rugae which converge tov/ard the clypeus; 

 cheeks strongly carinate behind; ocelli rather large, the lateral ones 

 about their own diameter from the eye margin; antennpJ scape 

 short; pedicel scarcely longer than broad; first funicle joint twice or 

 very nearly twice as long as the pedicel and distinctly longer than 

 twice its thickness, following joints of the funicle gradually decreas- 

 ing in length, the last funicle joint a httle less than twice as long as 

 thick; club no thicker than the funicle, very slightly longer than the 

 two preceding funicle joints combined, 3-jointed, the suture between 

 the first and second club joints deep and distinct, that between the 



