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.segments, yellowish white, or pale yellowish; rest of legs mostly red, 

 but with a spot on the tirst joint of the middle trochanters above, the 

 middle tibia^ toward apex, the middle tarsi, the hind coxa> beneath, 

 iirst joint of hind trochanters, their femora toward apex, an iinnulus 

 at base of their til)ia' and the apical two-thirds of same ahooc and the 

 tarsi, black. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins, except the sub- 

 costal vein and the parastigma, which are whitish, black. 



Type.-Oxt. No. S4T0, U.S.N.M. 



Mindanao. (Miss Clara S. Ludlow\) 



17. METOPIUS BROWNI, new species. 



Male. — Length 12 nun. Black, with the face, front orbits to sum- 

 mit of eyes, labrum, spot on mandibles, two l)asal joints of anteiuiie 

 beneath, a stri])e on the upper hind margin of the prothorax, a spot 

 beneath the teguhv, a very large spot just beneath it on the meso- 

 pleura anteriorly, the scale on each side of the base of the scutellum, 

 the apical half of the scutellum, the postscutellum, two spots on the 

 metathorax, the tirst segment of the abdomen, except narrowdy at 

 base, bands at apex of all the following segments, and the genitalia, 

 yellow; the tlagellum beneatli is fulvous; the palpi and the front and 

 middle legs are yellowish white, the hind legs brown with the coxa% 

 the trochanters, and a spot at apex and ba-^e of femora, lemon-\'ellow; 

 wings hyaline; the veins, except the subcostal vein, the parastigma, 

 the stigma, the median, and su))median veins which are pale yellowish, 

 are black or fuscous black. The head and thorax are closely, reticu- 

 late ly punctate. 



7^/>..— Cat. No. 8451, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



18. CHAROPS LONGIVENTRIS, new species. 



Female. — Length 7 nun. Head and thorax black, closely reticu- 

 lately punctate and clothed with a glittering white pubescence; the 

 abdomen is mostly ferruginous, the petiole medially pale yellowish, at 

 base black, the second segment black above, the rest ferruginous; the 

 abdomen is very long and strongly compressed, about twice as long as 

 the head and thorax united; the palpi, front coxa;, and trochanters, 

 front tarsi, middle trochanters, basal joint of middle tarsi, except 

 extreme apex, the hind trochanters, a narrow annulus at base of hind 

 tibiiB and at base of tirst joint of hind tarsi, white; the rest of the legs 

 (except the front and the middle legs), and the middle coxse, black, the 

 front and middle legs yellowish white. Wings hyaline, the tegulffi 

 base of the costal, subcostal, and submedian veins \'ellowish white, the 

 other veins brown-black. 



Type.—(^2Lt. No. S-t52, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



