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small, distinct, with three minute, acute nipples at apex. Three ring- 

 joints of which the middle is largest, distinct. Postmarginal vein 

 absent, the stigmal long. Scutum with a median g.roove, flat, the 

 scutellum with four. Pronotum flat, large. Antennae 11-jointed, the 

 funicle and club each 3-jointed. 



From the type in the U. S. N. M. (a fore leg and antenna 

 on a slide). 



Ceranisus flavopictus Ashmead. 



The types are unrecognizably mutilated but the female 



scape (the only part of the antennae present) shows no dilation 



and the marginal fringes of the fore wing are short and usual. 



The color appears to be wholly black. The species is hopeless. 



Sympiesomorphelleus whitmani new sj^ecies. 



Female: Length, l.S.j mm. 



Reddish brown, the wings hyaline, the abdomen and legs (also scape) 

 yellowish brown; the following black parts: Center of occiput, ocellar 

 area, flagellum and apex of the scape, pronotum (except the neck), 

 cephalic fourth of scutum (except along the meson narrowly), axillae, 

 scutellum laterad of the groove, propodeum lightly distad (its well- 

 defined neck) and along the meson and the margins of the abdomen 

 from base to about middle (but broken in two places). Also the post- 

 scutellum and a narrow line from the spiracle on the propodeum. 

 Median carina of the propodeum forming an X whose distal arms are 

 very long, the carinse joining not far distad of their origin; no lateral 

 carina. One spur of hind tibiee small. Mandibles 7-dentate. Pedicel 

 somewhat longer than wide, shorter than any funicle joint; funicles 1-3 

 subequal, each about thrice longer than wide, 4 slightly shorter, club 

 joints about equal in length, 1 about twice longer than wide, 2 ter- 

 minating in an acute, spinelike point. Flagellum fihform. Thorax 

 scaly reticulated. Grooves of scutellum practically joined around the 

 apex. Postmarginal vein much longer than the stigmal, the marginal 

 long. 



Described from a female in the U. S. N. M., labelled "174. 

 Gifu, Japan, Y. Nawa Collection." 



Type: Catalogue No. 19941, U. S. N. M., the above speci- 

 men on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 



Cheiloneurus albicornis Howard. 



Differs from the original description of albicornis Howard as follows: 

 The middle tibia? are purple except at tip and a silvery area just before 

 base; the caudal femur interiorly has a middle silvery streak along its 

 distal half or more (in some specimens) ; in some specimens the middle 

 tibia is silvery along its distal half. The scape is distinctly dilated but 

 not greatly. 



