115 



Ix'cu lalicllcd as Cotypes. There are also in this eoHeetion two 

 individuals taken by Mr. Terry at Ilong Kong. ^fr. Swezey 

 has j)nhlished the opinion that this species was introdnced into 

 the Ishnids from Ja])an hy Mi-. ivoeWeh' and lias recoi-ded it as 

 hreedinu' ii]i(!ii X ((colcin acre pta (iJulIci'), A. Hhidrhiinn ( IJut- 

 ler). //i/mi'iini rcriirrdhs (Fahricins) and A rcli ips posi rilfdinis 

 (Walker), all leaf r<illinii- Lc])id()|)tera. 



Microbracon Pembertoni n. sp. 



llidcon s]). Swezey. Pmc. Haw. Ent. Soe. •■5:l()i). 

 (Last entry so headed). 101."). 



9. Red; tips of manclil)lcs. i^alpi more nv less, antennae, eyes, 

 ocelli. i)ropo(leum more or less ( often onl_\- \er_\ slightly, at the inser- 

 tion of the abdomen), ovipositor sheaths, tarsi and apex of hind 

 femora more or less, black or blackish. Wings fuscous subhyaline, 

 nervures the same except that the costa liasally is reddish and the stigma 

 is yellow. 



Head and thorax highly polished and shining; the tergites rugu- 

 lose, the connate second and third tergites more coarsely so. Suture 

 of the second and third tergites crenul.ite : suture between the third 

 and f<iurth (free) tergites smooth, a sulcus there but indefinite behind, 



.\ntennae about 40-jointed, about as long as the body, ovipositor 

 about three-fourths as long as the head, thorax, and abdomen together. 



Length about 4 mm.; wings 5 nun.: o\ i|)ositor ,^ nun. 

 $ . Similar to the female but sni.tlKr. 



Dcscrilicd from 24 9 9 and 22 S i (•(.llcctccl or ])y('A ..n 

 the island of Oaliu, the earliest recoi'd heinii' in .\]»ril. 11' 14. 



I'ype 9 and allotype S in the collection of the Hawaiian 

 iMitouinloo-ieal Society, paratypes in the l'. S. National M n- 

 seniii, in the collection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation and in the private collections of V. TT. Timherlake and 

 of tlie author. 



it has heen lii'ed fi'oui Iteri'ie^ of LdiihiiKt (iniKtid. ])rol)- 

 ahly from tlie lar\a of ( ' rociddsciiKi lanhnuic liv ( ). 11. Swezey 

 and .1. ( '. Ilridwell. Croni Pcrlniojihoi-d (/ossi/piclhi liv I ). 'i\ 

 Fidlaway, ( '. K. Peiid)erton, and II. F. AVillard, and from 

 M i/clois crrdloniar and Crypiophlphia iUepida the former in 

 ]iods (d" Aciiciti [((rncsiana. the lattei' in the ^aiue and in the 

 ixkIs of Acitclii l,-()ii ( -T, (', P»ridwell). 



