J516 iciiM:u:M()Xin.E. 



Tahlf of (lencra. 



1 (4) ^Ictatlioviific s])i);icli'S siiliciiciil;iv ; 



areolet quadniti'. 

 '2 (3) Anal iiervure emitted from centre of [p. oK*. 



brachial cell ; nervellus geniculate. . Astii'IIUumma, I'urst., 



3 (j2) Anal nerviire emitted above centre of 



brachial cell ; nervellns entire . . IMk.sociiouus, Grav.,p. ~>\7. 



4 (1) jMetathoracic spiracles elongate ; 



areolet rhoniboidal .....: Edrisa, Cam., p. ^rlO. 



Geuus ASTIPHROMMA, Filrst. 



AstipJirouima, Fiirster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. ]8(i8, p. 170. 

 Astip/tromniiis, Thomson, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 188(5, p. ?)'ll . 



Gexotype, jSIesocliorus scuteUahts, Grav. 



Head with the genal sulcus wanting ; frous entirely and face 

 often black, the latter never witli llie orbits alone determinately 

 pale and in cJ always pale throughout. Lateral thoracic carinte 

 often basally obsolete. Abdomen subpilose discally, with the 

 pofetpetiole margined in both sexes. Upper wings with the lower 

 basal nervure usually postfurcal and the anal emitted from the 

 centre of the second discoidal cell, which is externally acute 

 below^ Hind wings with nervellns nearly always geniculate. 



Ravge. United States, Europe, Ceylon. 



This genus differs from MesocJiorus in possessing geual sulci, in 

 its geniculate or intercepted nervellns, and in the anal nervure 

 not being emitted from above the centre of the first recurrent ; 

 in the last character it agrees with ^StictojjistJiKs, Thoins. (entirely 

 overlooked by Ashmead in 1900), whicli has the nervellns entire 

 and not intercepted. 



406. Astiphronima petiolata, sp. n. 



2 • A very small, shining black species, with the protliorax 



Fig. \b\.- - A^tipla-omma peiiolaia, Mori. 



and base of antenna^ testaceous ; clypeus, palpi and legs flavous ; 

 the coxae, teguloe and third abdominal segment substramineous ; 



