518 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



EURYTOMA HINDUPURENSIS, new Bpecies. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Vertex with a few not very distinct 

 umbilicate punctures; frons between the antennal groove and the 

 eye margins longitudinally reticulated; face with fine striae converg- 

 ing toward the clypeus; cheeks carinately margined behind; temples 

 rugulose-punctate; occiput with shallow nonumbilicate punctures; 

 antennal scape constricted at apex; pedicel small, not longer than 

 broad, and not over half as long as the first funicle joint; funicle joints 

 submoniliform, much thicker than the pedicel, the first joint a little 

 longer than thick, following joints about as long as thick; club dis- 

 tinctly 3-jointed, conic ovate, and somewhat longer than joints 4 and 

 5 of the funicle combined; pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, and 

 axillae umbilicately punctate, the sides of scutellum smooth, and 

 lower two-thirds of axillae more or less granularly sculp tm-ed; pro- 

 podeum laterally rugoso-punctate, the medial impression deep, broad, 

 and not bounded by definite carinae, finely reticulate-punctate 

 medially, the sculpture of the sloping sides more or less transversely 

 rugulose; front coxae beneath apparently excavated from base to 

 apex, without a tooth; marginal and postmarginal veins subequal and 

 distinctly longer than the stigmal; abdomen shining, strongly com- 

 pressed, the fourth tergite not more than half as long as the third, 

 second and third subequal and rather large; sides of segments 2, 3, 

 and 4 closely finely punctate except along the posterior margins; 

 stylus rather prominent. Black; antenna entirely black; front 

 tibiae and all tarsi testaceous; middle and hind tibiae dark brown, 

 paler at apices ; abdomen ventrally more or less piceous. 



Type-locality. — Hindupm", Anantapiu* Dt., India. 



Type.~C&t. No. 22284, U.S.N.M. 



Two females collected by Ramakrishna Ayyar, 12-V-1914. The 

 paratype female with head and fore legs missing. 



Family CHALCIDIDAE. 



CHALCIS ARGENTIFRONS Aahmead. 



Eight specimens determined as this species are labeled : ' ' Parasite on 

 Lasiocampid pupa. Coimbatore, South India. Insectary. August 

 1, 1914," The species was originally recorded from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



STOMOCERAS AYYARI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 8 to 9 mm. Whole insect, including the legs and 

 antennae, black; wings hyaline basally, faintly infuscated apically 

 with a dark brown spot behind the marginal and apex of submarginal 

 veins, this spot extending posteriorly not quite to the middle of the 

 wing; also two long narrow longitudinal streaks of brownish, one 

 from the stigmal vein and the other from the hind margin of the brown 

 spot. Head strongly punctate; scrobicular depression broad and 



