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the apex of the costal cell picked out in black for over half its length ; a similar, 

 thoudi not quite so heavy a line, forms the apex of the brachial (tig. 1). 

 JMenibrane suffused with pale brown. Abdomen with first six segments deep 

 black, tip of abdomen pale. Leys milky-white. 

 Length 4 mm. 

 Bedford Park, INliddlesex {Dr. C. J. GaJiaii) ; on Sycamore. 



JEupteri/x stellulafa Burra. 

 Burmeister, Gen. Ins. (1838) p. 16, fig. 1. 



Ivory-white, with a fV.int bluish tinge. I^li/fra with a conspicuous, brown 

 brand on the apical half; subcostal with much, suprabrachial and tip of brachial, 

 light brown, the nervures smoky ; subapical area somewhat darker brown ; 

 a very dark triangular patch at the eitreme apex, with a not quite so dense a 



Pip 



-JSupteryx stellulata Burni. 



patch in the region of the last apical cell ; across the white siuuses made by 

 the brand run dark -brown lines (fig. 2). Winz/s white, suffused with brown 

 at the apex. Abdomen black-brown, with a little yellow showing towards 

 the tip. Legs white; anterior tar.si yellowish ; tips of hind tibiae brownish. 

 Claws brown. 



Length 4-4^ mm. 



Bedford Park, Middlesex {Dr. C. J. GnJian), forming food of 

 larvae of Crahro gonager. Kew Gardens, Surrey {F. Laing) ; on 

 Prumis spp. 



British Museum (Nat. Hist.), S.W. 7. 

 August 1920. 



A NEW BLASTOPHAGINE GENUS AND SPECIES FROM E. AFRICA 

 (HYMENOPTERA-CHALCIDOIDEA). 



BT JAMES WATERSTON, B.D., B.Sc, F.E.S. 

 (Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



There have recently been placed in my hands, through the courtesy 

 of the Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, London, several 

 tubes of Chalcids in spirit. Mr. A. Loveridge, wlio forwarded the 



