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these striae curving backwards on the lateral lobes; scutellum 

 flat, the postscutellum concave with raised lateral and posterior 

 margin, almost contiguous with the tubercle upon which the 

 abdomen arises. Thorax in lateral view slightly higher than 

 long, the propodeum almost vertical behind. Propleura smooth 

 except for a few short coarse horizontal strise centrally, below, and 

 along the posterior margin; mesopleura punctulate, but smooth 

 and polished behind; metapleura [smooth and polished; propo- 

 deum reticulate, more coarsely so medially in front, with a dis- 

 tinct transverse carina just behind the middle (obliterated in 

 some specimens). Abdomen three times as long as the thorax; 

 petiole smooth, as long as the three following segments together, 

 the spiracle at the middle; second to sixth of about equal length, 

 the whole abdomen formed as in Gasteruption; polished basally 

 and subopaque beyond. Hind coxse striate above, smooth below; 

 femora slender, the tibiae constricted at base, but not greatly 

 swollen apically, not broader than the femora; hairy, but without 

 any short stiff spinules; longer tibial spur a little more than half 

 the length of the metatarsus, the latter at least four times as long 

 as thick and as long as the following joints together; claws long, 

 slender, simple. Wings with the basal nervure arising consider- 

 ably to the base of the stigma; cubitus arising just behind the 

 middle of the basal; first section of radial vein two-fifths as long 

 as the second which is reduced in thickness on its apical half; 

 recurrent nervure entering the first cubital cell just beyond the 

 basal third; anterior discoidal cell more than twice as long as the 

 posterior one which is open behind; nervulus interstitial. Hind 

 wing with three frenulum hooks. 



Six males from Fiji (W. M. Mann). One specimen is from 

 Navai and all the others from Nadarivatu. Turner records Cuvu. 



Turner {loc. cit) has placed this species in Hyptiogaster and 

 compared it with H. darwinii Westw. If KiefTer's genus Hemi 

 foenus is distinct, it seems to me that the Fijian form must be 

 placed there on account of the very short thorax. H. darwinii 

 was unknown in nature to both Schletterer and Kieffer, and the 

 latter author (Das Tierreich, Lief. 30, p. 212) refers it to Pseudo- 



