SOME NEW HYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS FROM THE 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By S. A. RoiiWER, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



The insects described below were, with the exception of Pseuda- 

 gena chrysosoma, collected by Father Robert E. Brown, S. J., in the 

 vicinity of Manila. From a brief study of the superfamilies Tenthre- 

 dinoidea, Vespoidea, and Sphecoidea it seems that this fauna of the 

 Philippine Islands, although related to, is distinct from the fauna of 

 the neighboring mainland. 



NESOSELANDRIA, new genus. 



Small, habitus similar to the genera Aneugmenus Hartig and Cali- 

 roa. Clypeus small, subtruncate, with the lateral angles rounded; 

 malar space wanting; eyes large, subparallel, lateral ocelli below 

 superorbital line; postocellar area raised; pedicel cylindrical as long 

 as scape, third antennal joint longer than fourth, but not as long as 

 fourth and fifth combined; basitarsis as long as the following joints, 

 apical joint long slender, as long as the second joint, the third and 

 second joints somewhat flattened; tarsal claws with a large, erect, 

 inner tooth; venation of the general type for Selandrinse; third 

 cubital much broader at the apex receiving the transverse radius 

 beyond the middle; basal nervure strongly bent, as in some species 

 of Stromhoceros; transverse median its length from the apex of the 

 first discoid al cell; hind radial cell not appendiculate; two hind dis- 

 coidal cells; lanceolate cell shortly petiolate; sheath narrow; hypo- 

 pygidium subquadrate at the apex rounded. The tarsi of male are 

 more normal than in female. The first transverse cubitus in all the 

 specimens before me is wanting, but this is a variable character. 



Type-spedes. — Paraselandria imiiatrix Ashmead. 



Of the described genera this is most closely allied to Aneugmenus 

 Hartig, but the absence of the pentagonal area, the longer pedicel, 

 and the petiolate anal cell of the hind wings exclude it from that 

 genus. 



Proce'^dinqs U. S. National Museum, Vol. 37— No. 1722. 

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