68 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



The antenna are distinctly 13-jointed, filiform, the flagellar joints all cylindrical, 

 the first the longest joint but only slightly longer than the second and slightly nar- 

 rowed towards base, the second joint being fully four times as long as thick, or a 

 little longer, the joints beyond gradually shortening to the last, the last being longer 

 than the penultimate, or nearly as long as the first joint. 



Male. — Differs from the female only in having the abdomen forked at apex, the 

 antennae longer, with the flagellum, except the first joint at base, wholly black or 

 brown-black, the joints being a little longer, clothed with a fine, short pubes- 

 cence. 



Type. — No. 7 113, U. S. National Museum. 



Japan (Albert Koebele) ; Gifu (Y. Nawa). 



The specimens from Mr. Koebele were bred from the woolly larvse 

 of a Coccinellid, Scymuus dorcadomordes Weise. Mr. Nawa has also 

 bred it from a Scymuus lar\a. 



Proctotrypes japonicus, new species. 



Male. — Length 6 mm. Polished black ; pedicel and the ring-joint reddish ; 

 palpi yellowish ; legs black, the sutures of the trochanters, tips of femora,) and the 

 tibiae and tarsi, flavo-testaceous ; metathorax except a smooth space at base, rugulose, 

 with a median carina which becomes obsolete on the posterior face. Wings hyaline, 

 the stigma, costal and radial veins black or brown-black, the subcostal vein pale ; the 

 internal veins are wanting or indicated by brownish streaks. The antenna; are black, 

 with the scape beneath and the pedicel yellowish. 



Type. — No. 7 114, U. S. National Museum. 



Sapporo (Dr. Matsunmra). 



Family LIII, BELYTID.F:. 



Genus MIOTA Forster. 



Miota hakonensis, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3. 6 mm. Polished black ; first three or four joints of antennse, 

 the teguk^, and the legs, except the hind coxre, yellow or brownish-yellow, the flagel- 

 lum, after the first joint, brown. 



The antenna: are long, filiform, 15-jointed, the scape fully as long as the first and 

 second joints of the flagellum united and stouter ; all the joints of the flagellum are 

 cylindrical ; the first joint of the flagellum is a little longer than the second and the 

 longest joint, being about five times as long as thick ; the following joints to the last 

 gradually become shorter and shorter, the penultimate being only a little more than 

 twice as long as thick. The abdominal petiole is long, fully twice as long as the meta- 

 thorax and delicately, longitudinally striated or aciculated, the rest of the abdomen 

 being smooth and highly polished. 



Type. — No. 7 1 1 5 U. S. National Museum. 

 Hakone (Mr. A. Koebele). 



