NEW PHILIPPINE HYMENOPTERA—ASHMEAD. 119 



tibitv toward apex are dusk}^ the trochanters, knees, and base of tibiie 

 are paler A^ellowish than the rest of the k^g's; the nietathorax is areo- 

 lated; the abdomen, except the pkite of the first segment, is smooth 

 and shinino-; the pkite of the first segment is hardly twice as long as 

 wide and finel3' rugulose. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins, 

 except the parastigma, the outer edge of the stigma, and the poststig- 

 mal vein, which are dark fuscous, are white or clear h3'aline. 



T(/jM.— Cut. No. S4:b5, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



22. BRACON ALGUEI, new species. 



Female. — Length 3 umi.; ovipositor extremely short, projecting 

 just beyond the tip of the al)domen, the sheaths black. Pale brown- 

 ish yellow, the cheeks and head in front below whitish; the eyes, the 

 middle mesothoracic lobe anteriorly and a streak or line on each side 

 of the three basal segments of the al)domen are black; antenna> long, 

 fuscous; the wings hyaline, the stigma, except the outer margin, and 

 the veins yellowish, the costje and poststigmal vein black. The head 

 and thorax are smooth and shining, impunctate, Imt the abdomen is 

 closely rugulosely punctate, the three or four terminal segments 

 with a transverse line near apex making the segments appear as if 

 rinuned. 



7}//>'.— ^Cat. No. 8456, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) Only a single specimen was 

 taken, but it is quite distinct from all other forms known to me. It 

 is named in honor of the Kev. Jose Algue, the al>le director of the 

 Philippine weather bureau. 



23. SPATHJUS FUSCIPENNIS, new species. 



Male. — Length 3 nmi. Head, mesothorax, and scutellum reddish 

 brown, the rest of the thorax and the abdomen black, or the latter is 

 very dark castaneous; the antenna? are very long and slender, about 

 twice as long as the whole body, fuscous, except the five or six basal 

 joints, which are yellowish; the legs, or at least the anterior pair (the 

 middle and hind pairs being l)roken off), are pale yellowish. The 

 mesonotuni is shagreened, more or less rugulose posteriorly in front 

 of the scutellum, the latter has a crenulate furrow across its base; the 

 metathorax is regulose and areolated; the abdomen is very longly 

 petiolated, the petiole being very slender, nearly as long as the thorax, 

 ver}' delicatelv longitudinally aciculated at the sides, and wrinkled or 

 shagreened above; the body of the abdomen is nearly pear-shaped, 

 concave beneath, and smooth and highly polished. 



Type.—Q'.xi. No. 8457, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



