169 



$ Abdomen not at all compressed, rounded at apex, tergites 2-5 

 rufous or all hut 3d blackish. Antennae 25-jointed not all moni.liform. 

 Length 6.5 mm., wing 5.5 nun. 



Descrihod from •2\) 9 9 and S S S l)rod at Tape Town 

 from an undetermined tSarcopluuja living in Inunau excrement 

 and experimentally from other species of Savcopliaga living 

 in carrion. The habits of this species were discussed nn(h'r 

 the name of AlJ^fypa sp. in these Proceedings -j :492-49o, 

 lUls. 



The type 5 and allotype S will be placed in the South 

 African Museum; paratypes in the collection of the Hav.-aiian 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, in the collection of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association and in the priviUe col- 

 lections of P. IT. Timberlake and of the author. 



Named in appreciati(m of Charles W. ^lally, Cape En- 

 tomologist, and his works n])on the biology and fonomic.s of 

 fruit flics an<l tlic liousc i\y including studies of llu-ir natural 

 enemies. 



BRACONIDAE, Vipioninae. 



3. Microbracon Terryi n. sp. 



$ lUack, man(lil)le in the middle, sides of all the tergites (more 

 broadly in front so that the first and second are only dark spotted 

 discally or are entirely yellow), the ovipositor (but not the ilieaths), 

 knees, front femora apically more or less, hind tibiae basally more or 

 less, and calcaria yellow, the pale markings suffused and their limits 

 indefinite, mouth more or less reddish, wings and venation fuscor.s sub- 

 hyaline. 



llighly polished and shining, the second tergite feebly rugose behind 

 the median area of the first, its anterior furrow interrupted medially 

 about one-half the width of the median area of the t'lrst, suture of the 

 connate second and third tergites smooth. 



.'\ntennae about 28-jointed, longer than the head and thorax Ovi- 

 positor longer than the head, thorax, and abdomen together. 



Length 3 nun., ovipositor 4 nun., wing 3.5 nun. 

 $ Similar to the female, the abdomen sometimes entirely dark. 



Descril)(Ml fi-oni 24 9 9 and IS <? <5 fi-oui the Hawaiian 

 Islands: Honolulu (Terry, Timberlake) Oahu Sugar Co. 



