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is black; the second cubital cell is small, a little wider (higher) than 

 long and receives the first recurrent nervure very near its apex; the 

 third cubital cell is larger and receives the second recurrent nervure 

 at its apical third. Legs l)lack, the scopa whitish, the hind tarsi with 

 joints 2-4 at apex, the last joint and the claws testaceous. The 

 a))donien is oblong-oval, smooth, and shining, with the dorsal segments 

 2 and beyond microscopically shagreened, the terminal segment 

 fringed with short, stitf, black hairs; otherwise the abdomen is clothed 

 with a whitish pubescence, the first and second dorsal segments with 

 tufts laterally. 



Tf/j^e.—Odt. No. T1W4, U.8.N.M. 



Manila. Described from a single specimen taken ])y Father Stanton. 



Family XVI. CRABRONID.F. 



Genus DASYPROCTUS Lepeletier and Brulle. 

 DASYPROCTUS PHILIPPINENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length 8 mm. Black, subopaque, finely, closeh' punc- 

 tured, the clypeus and lower part of the cheeks clothed with a silver}- 

 white pubescence; scape, pedicel, mandibles, except the teeth, the 

 upper margin of the pronotum, the prothoracic tubercles, the scutel- 

 lum, two small spots at the apex of the abdominal petiole, a large 

 transverse mark on each side of the second dorsal segment, a small 

 .spot on each side of the third segment, a stripe at the base of the 

 fourth segment, interrupted at the middle, and the fifth segment, 

 except narrowly at apex, and the legs, except the coxa?, trochanters, 

 the hind femora entirel}-, the basal two-thirds of the front and middle 

 femora ahove., and a spot on the hind tibife beneath toward apex, 

 which are black, are yellow; the two or three apical joints of the 

 hind tarsi are more or less fuscous. ^Vings hyaline, the stigma and 

 veins blackish. 



Male. — Length mm. Agrees well with the female, only the pedicel 

 is black, not yellow; the 3'ellow margin on the pronotum is inter- 

 rupted at the middle, the scutellum wholly black, the abdomen black, 

 except a yellow spot on each side of the second dorsal segment, a 

 minute yellow spot on each side of the fourth, and a j^ellow stripe on 

 each side at apex of the fifth, while the legs are mostly black, with the 

 apices of the front and middle femora, their tibia? outwardly, and their 

 tarsi, except the two or three terminal joints of the middle tarsi, 

 yellow; the three terminal joints of the middle tarsi and the hind tarsi, 

 except at base, are usuallv fuscous. 



Tij2^e.—C^i. No. 71)0!), U.S.N. M. 



Manila. Described from specimens found by Father Stanton, form- 

 ing cells in the pithy stems of various plants. 

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