New Genera of British Mymaridae. 457 



pedicel about the same length as the 3rd joint. The 3rd, 4th, 5th 

 and 7th the same length ; the 6th and 8th longer, the club long, 

 shuttle shajie, brown. The head very wide, 0*2 mm. by 0'125 mm. 

 The eyes rounded ; the thorax narrower than the head ; the xmngs 

 0'85 mm. long, by 0-175 mm. broad, straight on the costa, and much 

 swollen on the inner margin ; the longest cilia 0'175 mm., the apical 

 half covered with coarse surface hairs. All the femora slightly 

 darker in the centre, the other parts liglit testaceous. The abdomen 

 testaceous at the base, the rest brown ; the ovipositor level with the 

 tip. 



Length 0"9 mm. 



Hob. Woking : September 1885 {Fred. Enoch). 

 Stephanodes, n. gen. 



Tlie tarsi 4-jointed ; the abdomen petiolate. The antennae of the 

 male 13-jointed, of the female 9-jointed ; the scape in both sexes 

 asperate. The wings 1"3 mm. long and 0'31 wide ; cilia short, the 

 longest 0-11 mm. Inner margins of eyes bounded by carinae which 

 run three-quarters round the eyes, and smoothing down level at the 

 lower margin. The ovipositor level with the tip of the abdomen. 



Stephanodes elegans, n. sp. (Plate XIV, figs. 6-11.) 



General colour, intense black. 



The tarsi 4-jointed. The abdomen petiolate. The head, thorax 

 and abdomen, smooth and shining ; intense black. The head almost 

 sqi;are with well-rounded corners, slightly dej^ressed between the 

 antennae ; the margins of the eyes, except on the outside, surrounded 

 by a small carina, running out level above and below the eyes, which 

 are rounded the same curve as the cheeks. The antennae of the 

 male 13 joints. Scape asperate in both sexes. The pedicel half the 

 length of the scape ; light testaceous ; the 3rd joint about the same 

 colour as scape — brown ; the 4th to 13th verj' dark brown and joints 

 of equal length. The scape and pedicel of the female similar to the 

 male ; the 3rd joint a little longer than the 2nd, the 4th darker and 

 longer; the 5th and 6th shorter and darker, the 7th and 8th short, 

 dark and thicker, the club darker, and twice as broad as the 8th and 

 longer than the 7th and 8th combined. The thorax oval ; the petiole 

 testaceous. The wings 1*3 mm. long by 0*31 mm. broad. The cilia 

 very short; the longest cilia O'll mm. The outer margin almost 

 semicircular. The surface evenly covered with short hairs. The 

 front tarsi longer than tibiae ; the 4th joint brown ; the 1st joint 

 equal to 2nd, 3rd and 4th combined, the middle and hind tibiae a 



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