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somewhat less than a semicircle; pedicel quadrate and sonicwhar longer 

 than the first funicle joint; funicle joints no longer than wide and 

 mostly transverse, increasing in width distad ; the first narrowly trans- 

 verse .with a short, lamelliform projection at base on dorsal side and 

 then obliquely sloping to apex ; the second joint a little wider than 

 long, the following two slightly narrower and about as wide as long; 

 the last two joints increasing in width but not in length, the sixth nearly 

 twice as wide as long ; club solid, large, very broadly oval and rounded 

 at apex, inclined somewhat obliquely to the funicle, not much longer than 

 wide and as long as the last three funicle joints combined. 



Frontovertex somewhat more rugulosely reticulate than in the fe- 

 male, with the same scattered, minute punctures ; upper part of the face 

 somewhat smoother and more shining, with a delicate, fine reticula- 

 tion, and more thickly punctate than the frons, becoming somewhat pol- 

 ished medially just above the antennae and without a median carina; 

 the sides of the face in a distinct area above the antennal sockets and 

 reaching upwards narrowly to the eyes much more rugulosely shagreened 

 than the rest of face, or closely, longitudinally lineolate next to the 

 cheeks and eyes, more irregularly lineolate medially below, the sculpture 

 on the whole being somewhat fingerprint-like : on each side near the 

 middle of the face contiguous to the peculiarly sculptured area is a 

 slight impression, small and circular ; the convex part of the face below 

 the antennae somewhat smoother than the dorsal part of the face, but 

 with a similar reticulation. 



Upper part of face with a dense, moderately long, erect, fine pubes- 

 cence; the rest of face and frontovertex with a shorter, sparser pubes- 

 ence ; pedicel and first funicle joint with a short, dense, silky pubes- 

 cence on the upper side, the following joints rather densely, and uni- 

 formly pubescent with fine, slightly longer hairs. 



Genotype: CoeJopencyrfus odyneri ii. sp. 



Besides odyneri there is at least another species present in 

 the Islands which differs in the male sex in having a median 

 carina on the face just above the antennae, the pedicel wider 

 than long, and the first two fnnicle joints very short, transverse 

 and produced on the outer side into short rami. 



The species of Coelopencyrtiis are parasitic in the larvae 

 of Odynerus. many of the parasites issuing from a host, which 

 becomes inflated and filled with cells somewhat like lepidopter- 

 ous larvae which have been parasitized by Copidosoma. The 

 species may therefore be polyembryonic. although both sexes 

 usually issue from the same host, which could hardly be the 

 €ase if all developed from a single ego;. 



