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bases and apices of middle and hind tibiae, apices of all femora more 

 or less, and all tarsi pale testaceous; legs otherwise dark brown or 

 blackish, the middle femora and all of the tibiae less dark than the 

 fore and hind femora. Otherwise as in the female. 



Type-locality. — Coimbatore, South India. 



Type.—Csit. No. 22282, U.S.N.M. 



Thi-ee females received from Ramakrishna Ayyar and labeled as 

 follows: "From gall. T. V. R., collector, 30-VI-1913." One male 

 with same data except dated "18-VI-1913." Also four females 

 labeled: "Parasite from gingelly galls. Y. R. collector, 11 to 19-III- 

 1913." 



EURYTOMA SETrTIBU. new species. 



Easily distinguished from the other Indian species by the setae on 

 hind tibiae and the entirely pale testaceous antennae. 



Female. — Length, 2.8 mm. Head, except a narrow median longi- 

 tudinal line on the face, coarsely umbilicately punctate; cheeks 

 strongly carinate behind; occiput umbilicately punctate behind the 

 vertex, shagreened below; antennal scape narrowed at apex; pedicel 

 about as long as broad, subglobose; funicle submoniliform, the first 

 funicle joint nearly twice as long as the pedicel and about one and 

 one-half times as long as thick; following funicle joints subequal and 

 very slightly longer than thick; club 3-jointed, compact, longer than 

 joints 4 and 5 of the funicle combined, the second suture not very 

 distinct ; pronotum, mesoscutum, and scutellum umbilicately punctate 

 like the head ; sides of the scutellum and the axillae below shagreened ; 

 propodeum rugoso-punctate laterally, with a broad, rather deep, 

 irregularly carinately margined median excavation which is nearly 

 smooth medially but finely shagreened on the sloping sides; front 

 coxae excavated beneath, but without a transverse carina or tooth; 

 mesosternum with a distinct median carina, but without a tooth-like 

 projection; hind tibiae above on the basal half with three strong stiff 

 setae in addition to the usual fine bristles or hairs, the distal seta the 

 longest and approximately as long as the basal joint of tarsi ; marginal 

 vein about one and one-half times the stigmal, postmarginal very 

 slightly longer than stigmal; abdomen about as long as head and 

 thorax, subcompressed, the fourth tergite equal to the first, second, 

 and third combined; fifth very short, sometimes completely hidden 

 by the fourth; stylus rather prominent; apex of ovipositor sheaths 

 exposed; all tergites distinctly reticulate-punctate laterally, less dis- 

 tinctly so dorsally. Black; antennae entirely, fore and middle 

 femora, all tibiae, and all tarsi pale reddish testaceous. 



Type-locality. — Coimbatore, South India. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22283, U.S.N.M. 



Type female and two female paratypes labeled: "Parasite from 

 gaUs on Oordia myxa. T. V. S., collector. 24-V-1917." 



