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MALES. 



1. Abdomen piceous or black 4 



Abdomen orange-yellow or reddish 2 



2. Body more or less smooth and shiny with fine reticulations ; pubes- 



cence pale, sparse and not at all conspicuous 3 



Head and body opaquely alutaceous; pubescence whitish and com- 

 paratively prominent. 



Head and thorax flame scarlet, the abdomen slightly redder, the 

 underparts of thorax and the legs paler and yellower, scape and 

 pedicel concolorous with head, the funicle and club piceous ; sixth 

 funicle joint and base of club with a row of al^out eight or nine 

 clavate hairs sanguineus n. sp. 



3. Head finely shagreened and nearly opaque, thorax and abdomen 



smooth and moderately shiny, the mesoscutum very finely reticu- 

 late, the basal tergite of abdomen somewhat more coarsely reticu- 

 late ; coloration nearly uniformly capucine yellow, the legs paler 

 yellow, the funicle and club black ; sixth funicle joint and base of 



club with a row of about seven clavate hairs scinUutcus n. sp. 



Head and thorax finely reticulate and shiny, the basal tergite of ab- 

 domen somewhat more coarsely reticulate ; coloration about orange 

 rufous to flame scarlet with the abdomen redder, the legs paler and 

 more yellowish, with the funicle and club black ; sixth funicle joint 

 and base of cluli with a row of about six clavJite hairs. 



aptcrus Timb. 



4. Head and thorax finely, delicately reticulate ; ocelli distinct ; meso- 



notum perfectly flat to apex of .scutellum ; head, thorax, legs, 

 scape and pedicel about xanthine orange, the remainder of the 

 antennae and the abdomen piceous or black; sixth funicle joint 

 and base of club with a row of about eight clavate hairs. 



bridzvelli n. sp. 

 Head and thorax smooth and shiny, without reticulations ; ocelli very 

 minute ; head, thorax, legs, scape and pedicel about capucine yel- 

 low, the funicle and club piceous, the abdomen shining black ; 

 sixth funicle joint and base of club with a row of about seven 

 clavate hairs laysanensis Timb. 



Xanthoencyrtus sanguineus n sp. Fig. 9. 



Female : Tn comparison with aptcrus this .species differs as follows : 

 Head practically of the same shape, the space between the eyes with 

 about the same proportions and caving in after death very nearly the 

 same, although the triangular raised area in the ocellar region is less 

 prominent or even absent ; ocelli practically the same in size, the 

 posterior pair a little closer together than the distance from either 

 to the eye-margin. Antennae longer, tlie scape nnicli narrower or not 

 over a sixth as wide as long ; pedicel aliout the same, being distinctly 



