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lateral marks, all ivory-white. Wino\s hyaline, the .stigma and veins 

 black, the areolet rather small, pentagonal. 



Typv.—C?it. No. 80(»4, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. {W. A. Stanton.) Allied to A. nnifasciatds in structure, 

 but diti'ers decidedly in color of thorax and abdomen, and in having no 

 fuscous band on the front wings. 



Tribe VII. MESOSTENINI. 



Genus MESOSTENOIDEUS Ashmead. 



MESOSTENOIDEUS OCTOZONATUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 9.5 mm. Ovipositor a little shorter than the abdo- 

 men. Black, marked with white as follows: Joints 7 to 11 of antenna^, 

 the palpi, a spot on the mandibles, the clypeus and the face to the 

 insertion of the antenna?, the inner orl)its, the cheeks and hind orbits 

 interrupted above, a transverse line on the collar, the upper margin of 

 the pronotum broadly interrupted medially, a spot on the middle 

 mesothoracic lobe posteriorly, a streak on the lateral ridges of the 

 scutellum, a spot on the scutellum and the lateral ridge from its apex, 

 the post-scutellum and its lateral ridges, the tegula\ a spot beneath, 

 two spots on the mesopleura, a lateral spot on the mesosternum, the 

 front coxffi more or less, two spots on the metapleura, a spot near the 

 middle of the metanotum, a spot enclosing the metathoracic teeth, and 

 bands at the apex of dorsal segments 1 to 8 of abdomen, white; the 

 white bands on segments 1 to 8 are interrupted at the middle; the ven- 

 tral segments are also white at apex; legs yellowish-red; the hind tarsi 

 with joints 2 to 5 fuscous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins black, 

 the areolet small, closed, longer than wide, the second recurrent 

 nervure interstitial, or very nearl}', with the second transverse cubitus. 



Tyi>,.—OA.t. No. 8005, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father W. A. Stanton.) 



Subfamily III. FI]\IPLI]V^5i:. 

 Tribe III. LISSONOTINI. 



Genus ATROPHA Kriechbaumer. 

 ATROPHA CLYPEARIA, new species. 



Female. — Length (3 to 8 mm. (very variable in size); ovipositor 

 about as long as the abdomen. Black and shining, marked with white 

 as follows: The mandibles, except the teeth, the clypeus, a small spot 

 on the malar space, a line on the face next to the eyes, a triangular 

 spot on inner orbits above the insertion of the antennae, the scape 

 beneath, basal joints of palpi, a wedge-shaped spot on each side of the 

 mesonotum anteriorly, the tegulw, a spot beneath, a spot at the inser- 



