NO. 1424. NEW PHILIPPINE HYMENOPTERA-ASHMEAD. 399 



Family SCELIONID^. 



Genus OPISTH ACANTH A Ashmead. 

 3. OPISTHACANTHA NIGRICLAVATA, new species. 



Female. — Length 1 mm. Black, .subopaque, microscopically sha- 

 greened, the scuteUum and the body of abdomen alone smooth and 

 shining; scape, pedicel and funicle of antennae, and the legs flavotes- 

 taceous, the club of the antennw being black, the joints transverse; the 

 postscutellar spine is minute but distinct; the metapleura are covered 

 with a silvery white pubescence; the lateral ocelli touch the eye mar- 

 gin; the abdomen seen from above is pointed ovate, depressed, a little 

 longer than the head and thorax united, smooth and polished, except 

 the petiole, which is opaque and striated. Wings hyaline, the veins, 

 except the short marginal vein which is brown, being pale yellowish. 



7}//>t.— Cat. No. 8751, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. One specimen. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Genus HADRONOTUS Forster. 

 4. HADRONOTUS FLAVIPES, new species 



Female. — Length about 0.8 nun. Black; basal half of the scape of 

 the antenna?, the apex of the pedicel, and the legs yellow. The head 

 is about thrice as wide as thick antero-posteriorly, wider than the 

 thorax, deeply emarginate posteriorly, convex anteriorly, and reticu- 

 lately sculptured; the 12-jointed antenna? terminate in a 6-jointed club, 

 the joints of which, except the last, are transverse, the last being conical; 

 the pedicel is obconical, about 2i times as long as thick, and much 

 longer and stouter than the first joint of the funicle; the funicle joints 

 after the first are a little wider than long; the thorax is finely, closely 

 punctate, subopaque, and without parapsidal furrows; the abdomen 

 is broadly oval, smooth and shining, the first segment longitudinally 

 striated, the second segment with some delicate strise at base. Wings 

 hyaline, pubescent, the marginal, stigmal, and postmarginal veins 

 brownish, the marginal being the shortest and stoutest of the three 

 veins, or a little shorter than the shaft of the stigmal vein. 



Tt/j>e.— Cat. No. 9035, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Family FIGITID^F. 



Genus KLEIDOTOMA West\Arood. 

 5. KLEIDOTOMA PHILIPPINENSIS, new species. 



Male. — Length 0.9 mm. Polished black, the legs, including the 

 coxa?, reddish-yellow, the first two joints of the antenna dark red, 

 the flagellar joints dark brown, and all, except the first, beautifully, 

 although delicately, tinted. 



