28 



FAMILY EULOPHIDAE. 



Mclittobia haicaiiciisis Perkins. 

 (Plate IV, Figs. 8-10.) 



"Black, or brownish-black, the thorax with a faint aeneous reflection, 

 the head and thorax also faintly metallic. The mandibles are reddish 

 and the scape of the antennae is more or less pale, sometimes clear yel- 

 low, at other times only more or less obscurely brown in dried si)ecimens. 

 The tibiae and tarsi are yellow, the femora dark, or at least nitre or less. 

 sordid. In fresh specimens the ocelli are enclosed in a pale ring, and 

 the eyes pale-margined, while there is a pale median line on the face, 

 furcate above and below, forming an elongate X-like mark. The meso- 

 thoracic sutures are mostly pale, as also the parapsidal furrows and the 

 scutellar grooves. In dry specimens generally all these pale markings 

 disappear. Head conve.x in front in fresh examples, but collapsing alto- 

 gether in dry ones; the antennae with elongate scape, widening to the 

 apex, and about as long as the pedicel and funicle joints together, the 

 pedicel obccnical and longer than the first funicle joint, the latter not 

 differing much from the two following, and transverse on their widest 

 faces, the clul) ovate, twice as long as its greatest width, about equal to 

 the three funicle joints together, and with a spine at the apex. Thorax 

 with very short hairs and very minutely punctured, the propodeum smooth 

 and shining and with a median groove. Abdomen usually sul)parallel- 

 sided in dry specimens and elongate, being about as long as the head and 

 thorax together or rather more. Length rather more than i mm. Wings 

 evenly dotted with short hairs and with short marginal fringe: the mar- 

 ginal vein with two rows of long and some shorter setae. 



"Male {[uite unlike the female, blind and with very different antennae,, 

 which are 9, not 8-jointed. Color, yellow or brown, sometimes more or 

 less darker in parts, the apical joints of the antennae more or less black.. 

 Scape very large, subtriangular. and abmit as long as all the other antennal 

 joints together; it is concave beneath and some of the following joints 

 are usually withdrawn into the concavity, which is partly closed by the 

 incurved sides, pedicel laminate and often entirely hidden l)eneath the 

 scape, first funicle joint triangular, very narrow at the base, second and 

 third not differing much from one another, both being wide, fourth very 

 short and transverse, club three-jointed, the funicle joints are set with 

 longish setae. Wings rudimentary, the front pair about as long as tlie 

 thorax, the marginal vein very long, reaching nearly from ba-e to apex 

 and clothed with many long bristles." [Perkins, Proceedings Hawaiian 

 Entomological Society. I, Pt. 4. p. 124. 1907. 1 



