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cheek ; eyes distinctly pubescent. Mesonotum subshining, clothed with 

 coarser hairs than usual ; along each side with three long bristles before the 

 root of the wing and another behind at the lateral angle; one pair of con- 

 spicuous dorsocentral bristles, but no bristles along the posterior margin. 

 Scutelluni suddenly shortened laterally, with one pair of marginal bristles, 

 although a second lateral pair is indicated by fine hairs. Abdomen opaque ; 

 without hairs or bristles ; second and sixth segments slightly elongated. 

 Ovipositor chitinized, enlarged apically from a narrowed base and truncate 

 so that the apex is in the form of an oval, margined disk (fig. 3) below 

 which is a downwardly projecting tooth or short blade. Legs long and very 

 slender; fore and middle coxje with a few bristles at tips. Tibiae hairy, but 

 without any distinct setulae ; middle ones with a slender, moderately long 

 spur, hind ones with only a very weak and indistinct spur. Propleura with 

 several small bristles at the base of the fore coxa, mesopleura apparently bare. 

 Wings broadly oval ; costal vein falling distinctly short of the middle of the 

 wing, with about 14 long, sparsely placed bristles ; third vein thickened, not 

 forked ; first vein ending close to the third, its tip twice as far from the 

 humeral cross-vein as from the tip of the third ; fourth vein evenly curved ; 

 fifth and sixth sinuate ; seventh nearly straight. Halteres whitish yellow. 



One specimen from Samarang, Java, October, 1909 (E. Jacob- 

 son). The label bears the additional information " myrmecophilous." 



This species is at once distinct by the peculiar configuration of 

 the ovipositor. The very short costal vein is similar to that of the 

 North American species, P. crazvfordi Coq. and P. currei Malloch 

 from both of which the Javanese form differs by its narrower front 

 and the arrangement of the frontal bristles. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIIL 



Fore tarsus of Aphiochccta fortiusciila n. sp. 



Wing of Plastophora javensis n. sp. 



Ovipositor of Plastophora javensis n. sp., lat. view. 



Wing of Hypocera flavidula n. sp. 



Hind leg of Aphiochccta gregalis de Meijere. 



Hind leg of Aphiochccta canaliculata. 



Wing of Aphiochccta meijerei n. sp. 



