NO. 1413. NEW FILIPINO irYMEXOPTERA—ASHMEAD. 971 



Genus BRACON Fabricius. 

 27. BRACON VAU, new species. 



Feiiialc — Length 2 mm.; ovipositor about two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen. Black; the venter, a V-shaped mark on the second 

 dorsal segment of the abdomen, and a median line on the following 

 segments are yellow; the scape of the antenntv, the mandibles — 

 except the teeth, which are black, the palpi, the tegula?, and the legs 

 entirely, except the hind tarsi, are yellow; the hind tarsi are dark 

 fuscous or black. 



The head and thorax are smooth and shining, impunctate, theparap- 

 •sidal furi'ows being indicated by depressed lines that converge pos- 

 teriorly and nearly meet at the base of the scutellum; the dorsum of 

 the abdomen is finely, opaquely sculptured or shagreened. 



AVings hyaline; the stigma and the veins, except the median and 

 submedian veins basally, are dark brown; the second cubital cell is 

 rather narrow, only about two-thirds longer than wide at apex, the 

 second transverse cubitus being shorter than the first. 



J/rt'/^?.— Length 1.8 mm. Agrees well with the female, except that 

 the antenna? are longer, the legs entirely yellow, the hind tarsi not 

 fuscous, while the median yellow line is absent on the two last 

 segments. 



Type.—C^i. No. 8340, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Family SELANDRIID^. 



Genus PARASELANDRIA Ashmead. 

 28. PARASELANDRIA IMITATRIX, new species. 



Male. — Length 3 mm. Black and shining, impunctate, the anterior 

 tibice in front and the apex of middle tibia; yejlowish; apices of the 

 joints of middle tarsi are also yellowish; the head has two broad 

 antennal sulci; the third joint of the antenna^ is the longest, a little 

 longer than the two preceding joints united or a little longer than the 

 fourth, the following joints shortening. Wings smoky black, the 

 stigma and veins brown black. 



T(/j)e.— Cat. No. 8322, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) One specimen. 



This is the first sawfly I have seen from the Philippines. 



