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front legs, except the femora basally, the trochanters of the middle and hind legs, 

 and the basal half of the tibiae and the tarsi, yellow. Wings clear hyaline. Abdo- 

 men polished black, except the petiole which is longitudinally striate and has a 

 minute yellow spot at base above. 



The scutellum is triangularly pointed, a little longer than wide at base, the 

 extreme apex piceous ; the pedicel is long, slender, about three times as long as 

 thick at apex, the funicle joints I and 2 also slender, the second long, cylindrical, 

 twice as long as the first, the latter being shorter than the pedicel, joints 3 and 4 

 small, not longer than thick, but a little thicker than the first ; club abruptly defined, 

 4-jointed, the joints much wider than the funicle, the first three joints nearly as wide 

 as long. 



Type. — No. 7131, U. S. National Museum. 



Atami. One specimen collected by Mr. A. Koebele. 



Genus SACTOGASTER Forster. 



Sactogaster hakonensis, new species. 



Female. — Length, I mm. Black, the head and thorax feebly, microscopically 

 sliagreened, subopaque, the pleura and the abdomen polishing, shining; antennte 

 brown-black, the scape beneath and at base fiavo-testaceous ; legs black, all tibire 

 toward base, and all tarsi, except the last joint, yellowish ; mesonotum without com- 

 plete parapsidal furrows, but with a trace of them posteriorly for two thirds the length 

 of the mesonotum ; scutellum produced into a thorn-like spine at apex, with some 

 glittering white hairs on either side at apex ; abdomen with a whitish pubescence at 

 base, the tail-like projection, which is formed by segments 3 to 6 being much nar- 

 rowed, is as long as the second segment, the sixth segment being about as long as 

 segments 3 to 5 united, the fifth a little longer than the fourth, the third hardly half 

 as long as the third. 



Type. — No. 7132, U. S. National Museum. 



Hakone. One specimen collected by Mr. A. Koebele. 



Genus ANOPEDIAS Forster. 

 Anopedias japonicus, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.7 mm. Polished black, the flagellum testaceous, yellowish 

 at base, the trochanters, base of all tibire and the apex of the front tibire honey- 

 yellow, the tarsi, except the la,st joint, yellowish-white, the metapleura and the base 

 of the abdomen clothed with a silvery-white pubescence. Wings clear hyaline, faintly 

 pubescent. The antenna; are folded and so covered with glue that they cannot be 

 described in detail. 



Type. — No. 7133, U. S. National Museum. 



Hakone. One specimen collected by Mr. A. Koebele. 



Genus POLYGNOTUS Forster. 

 Polygnotus gifuensis, new species. 



Male. — Length 1.6 mm. Lolished black, the mesonotum without parapsidal 

 furrows ; legs, except tips of front femora, front tibire and tarsi, which are testaceous. 



