DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF 

 HYMENOPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By William H. Ashmead, 



Assistant Curator, Division of Inserts. 



In a paper'' entitled A List of the Hymenoptera of the Philippine 

 Islands, with descriptions of New Species, I recorded 183 species of 

 these insects from the Philippines, although several doubtful species 

 mentioned by Fr. Castro de Elera in his C^atalogo de todo la Fauna 

 Filipinas were cited but not included in this number. Two genera 

 and thirty-one species were described as new to science in this tirst 

 paper. 



Since the list appeared, however, I have found references to five 

 species overlooked by me. These are: (1) Aiiipule.e Ixnujata Kohl, 

 (2) Pompilus (jr<i2)h!cm Smith, (3) Chalcis xerxene Walker, (4) Plnq>la 

 {Euxoridesf) furcif(i' Bingham, and (5) St&phanus ^«rf7c?^S' Westwood. 

 Mr. P. Cameron, the eminent English hymenopterist, has also kindly 

 called my attention to two species descril)ed ])y Gribodo,* viz, jSphrx 

 !<((lclscuta and TIeiniiDepsis tagala, from the island of Mindoro. 

 Father W. A. Stanton continues to send me the H3anenoptera col- 

 lected by him in the Observatory Garden at Manila, and I am now 

 aljle, with the new material received from him and from Father 

 Robert Brown, to contribute further toward. advancing the knowledge 

 of the hymenopterous fauna of the archipelago. Below I describe 

 four new genera and fort3'-tive new species of Hymenoptera, many of 

 the latter in genera and families not before known to have represent- 

 atives in the Philippines. 



The new genus Stantonia, named in honor of Father Stanton, is of 

 special interest, as it is a true Agathine, but departs somewhat in the 

 characters of the venation from all other known genera in the group. 



The paper terminates with a check list, sj^stematically arranged, of 

 the Hymenoptera now known to occur in the Philippine Islands. 



« Jour. New York Ent. Soc, March, 1904, pj). 1-22. 

 ^ Miscellanea J^ntomologica, II, 1894, p. 2. 



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