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marginal vein not short, the stigmal vein rather long, clavate about two thirds the 

 length of the marginal, the postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. 



Type. — No. 7184, U. S. National Museum. 

 Atami. Described from four specimens collected from Mr. A. 

 Koebele. 



Subfamily II, Merisin.e. 



Genus HOMOPORUS Thomson. 

 Homoporus japonicus, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.8 mm. Bluish-green, the head and thorax punctate; 

 antennie light brown, the scape yellowish, the funicle joints 2-6 transverse ; abdomen 

 broadly oval, depressed, aeneous, rounded at apex and not longer than the thorax ; 

 legs metallic brown-black, with the tips of the femora and the tibice and tarsi pale 

 yellowish. Wings hyaline, with a large fuscous cloud beneath the marginal vein, 

 the veins brown. 



Type. — No. 7185, U. S. National Museum. 



Atami. One specimen received from Mr. A. Koebele. 



Subfamily IV, Sphegigasterin^. 

 Tribe I, Asaphini. 

 Genus PARASAPHES Ashmead. 

 Parasaphes japonicus, new species. 



9. Length, 1.8 mm. ^-Eneous black; flagellum brown; femora, except tips 

 and the hind tibia; reddish-brown, the tips of the femora, the front and the middle 

 tibiffi and all tarsi pale yellowish ; abdomen clavate, the petiole 2\ times as long as 

 thick ; wings hyaline, the veins brown, the marginal vein very long and slender, 

 nearly as long as the submarginal, the stigmal vein very short, subpetiolate, ending in 

 a little knob. 



Type. — No. 7186, U. S. National Museum. 



Atami. Described from one specimen collected by Mr. A. 

 Koebele. 



Parasaphes flavipes, new species. 



5. Length, 1.6 mm. Head and thorax metallic greenish, shagreened ; abdo- 

 men polished black, the petiole about twice as long as thick; scape of antennas and 

 the legs, including the coxae, pale yellowish ; flagellum long, brown ; wings hyaline, 

 the veins brownish, the marginal vein hardly two thirds the length of the subcostal, 

 thickened towards apex, the stigmal vein thickened, much longer than in the previous 

 species, more nearly as in the genus Asaphes Walk. 



7^1^,?. — No. 7187, U. S. National Museum. 



Formosa. Several specimens, labelled 1366, bred by Mr. A. 

 Koebele. 



