124 Mr. S. A. Rohwer on new 
species described was done by Messrs. Gahan and Crawford, 
and the present writer, although entirely responsible for 
this contribution, has done little more than verify their 
identifications and prepare the following descriptions. 
The drawings of the antennz were:made by the author 
from slide mounts, with the aid of a Leitz projection 
apparatus. The descriptions were prepared under a magni- 
fication of sixty diameters. 
Family Elasmide. 
Elasmus indicus, sp. n. 
Female.—Length 2 mm. Face and lower part of front 
finely granular; vertex and occiput granular, but in addition 
with shallow, poorly defined, separate pits; lateral ocelli 
separated from the eye by a distance about twice as great 
as their diameter, and from the caudal margin of the 
head by a distance equal to their diameter ; antenne as 
in figure 1; pronotum with an indistinct transverse carina ; 
Fig. 1. 
Elasmus indicus, Rohwer. Antenna of paratype a. 
mesoscutum with close setigerous punctures, the hair black ; 
scutellum somewhat dull, very finely reticulate ; propodeum 
shining, more finely reticulate than the scutellum ; abdomen 
polished, with long black bristles on the sides of tergites, 
/Mneous ; antenne brown ; scutellum with a faint purplish 
tinge ; base of first tergite green ; apical part of first and 
base of second tergites with a pale ferruginous band ; apical 
tergites faintly purplish; legs black, the anterior pair 
beyond middle of coxe, the intermediate pair beyond femora, 
and the posterior tibize and tarsi yellowish brown, with very 
conspicuous black bristles; wings sublyaline. 
Male.—Length 15 mm. Agrees well with the female, 
except that the mesoscutum appears more scaly. 
Type-locality.—Coimbatore, South India. 
Type.—Cat. No. 20,978, U.S.N.M. 
Described from seven females and one male received from 
