NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA FROM 

 THE PHILIPPINES. 



By William H, Ashmead, 



Assistant Curator, LHrision of Insects. 



In this paper I describe three new genera and twenty-seven new 

 species of Hymenoptera from the Philippines, based principally upon 

 material received recently from Father Robert Brown, S. eT., of the 

 Philippine Weather Bureau. Two of the species, however, belonging 

 to genera known onl}' in India and Japan, and of great economic 

 importance, since the}^ destroy destructive scale-insects of the family 

 Coccida^^ were sent to me by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Boulder, 

 Colorado, who received them, together with their hosts, from Prof, 

 Tjder Townsend, now in the Philippines. 



The new genus, ElaMiiiogimt/nis, is very remarkable in many of its 

 characters, and totally unlike any other genus so far discovered in the 

 tribe Ichneumonini, where it is placed at present. It may ultimately 

 be considered as the tj^pe of a distinct tribe. 



Family DIAPRIID^. 



Genus GALESUS Curtis. 



I. GALESUS MANILiE, new species. 



Female. — Length 3 nun. Polished black, with the legs, except the 

 coxa3, the extreme apex of the hind femora, and the basal three-fourths 

 of the hind tibii« outwardly, red; the coxae, the extreme apex of the 

 hind femora, and the basal three-fourths of the hind tibia? are black. 



The head is a little longer than wide, smooth, shining, and impunc- 

 tate, but with a delicate carina on each side anteriorly just above the 

 eyes, and an inclosed area in front of the front ocellus that is connected 

 with carina?, which extend to the lateral ocelli; the antennal sockets 

 are deep; the face near the insertion of the antennae is flat, with a 

 large quadrate fovea, but anteriorly it is subtectiform, or sloping ofi' 

 on each side from a delicate median carina; there is also a delicate 

 carina extending from the base of the eyes to the back of the head; 



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