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the $, but the brush on the dorsum of the hind coxae is mucli sparser ; tarsal ratios 

 as in the $, but the first joint of the mid tarsus is nearer 17 than 18, and that of the 

 hind tarsus is 16. 



Length, nearly 1} ram. ; alar expanse, over 2 mm. 



Ty2)e — $ in the British Museum. 



Gold Coast: Aburi, 3 ,^(^, 6 $$, ex Lecanium ? sornereni, Newst.; on Kola, 

 23.xii.1915 {W. H. PaUerson). 



¥'ig. 9. Lf^ft half of the dorsal surface of the propodeon of (a) Eiuiotas 

 tntaciUipetiniS: sp. u., ? ; (b) an allied species from the Seychelles. 



Note. 



Just before going to press I have had an opportunity, through the kindness of 

 Dr. C. J. Gahan, Keeper of the Dept. of Entomology, British Museum (Natural 

 History), of examining the collection of Chalcidoidea made by the Percy Sladen 

 Trust Expedition to the Seychelles, and worked out by Dr. Luigi Masi of Genoa, 

 whose report is shortly to appear. There is in this collection a form close to E. truncati- 

 ■peniiis for which Dr. Masi proposes to make a new genus {cf. supra p. 252). In 

 general appearance the West African and the Seychelles forms closely resemble one 

 another, but the latter insect has some minute bristles on the radius and on the 

 marginal and post-marginal in addition to the stouter bristles flinging the latter veins. 

 The propodeon, too (fig. 9 b) is flatter (the area between the mid and first lateral 

 comb being hardly higher than the spiracular area) and on eacb side slopes towards 

 the mid line, instead of being almost perpendicular to it ; the " teeth " are also 

 less prominent. More material is required to determine the status of these forms. 

 Owing to the excessive smoothness of part of the integument and the black or blue- 

 black coloration, the sculpture of these insects is difficult to make out. 



