400 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou xxix. 



The 15-jointod antennje are longer than the body; the scape is 

 obconical, longer than thick, the pedicel round, the joints of the flagel- 

 lum long, cylindrical, except the first which is clavate, slightly bent, 

 and a little longer than the second, the joints beyond are al)out four 

 times as long as thick; the scutelluni, except the cup, is striated, the 

 fovea at base is divided by a delicate median carina, the cup is ellip- 

 soidal with a puncture at base and a fovea toward apex; the meta- 

 thorax is bicarinate, subopaque, pubescent laterally; the abdomen has 

 a tuft of white wool on each side at base. Wings hyaline, slightly 

 emarginate at apex, ciliated, the veins pale yellowish, slightly l)rown- 

 ish in the thickened parts, the marginal cell open along the front 

 margin. 



Type.— C?ii. No. 8952, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Family TORYMID^. 



Genus PHILOTRYPESIS Forster. 



6. PHILOTRYPESIS FICICOLA, new species. 



I^emale. — Length to tip of ovipositor 4.8 mm., to tip of abdomen 2.8 

 mm. Brownish 3'ellow, smooth and shining, the dorsum of abdomen 

 with some brownish spots down the center, the apical or tubercularlj'- 

 produced segments with a black median line at base and clothed with 

 black sparse hairs or bristles, the sheaths of the ovipositor black and 

 pubescent, clavate at tips; scape and pedicel of the antenna", and the 

 legs, including the coxee, paler yellowish; flagellum brown-blacky 

 pubescent, the funicle joints all longer than thick; eyes pale greyish, 

 with a faint bluish tinge in certain lights; ocelli pale; tibiae with 

 bristly hairs, more noticeable on the hind pair. Wings hyaline, 

 iridescent, pubescent, the veins light ])rownish. 



Male. — Length about 1 mm. Apterous, rufo-testaceous, and highly 

 polished, the abdomen triangularly pointed, depressed, yellowish, 

 becoming whitish at apex; the hind femora are also paler or yellowish; 

 the tibiae are beset with short, stiff, bristly spines; the head is large, 

 trapezoidal, a little wider behind than in front, but not quite as wide 

 as the thorax, with a deep triangular emargination anteriorly in which 

 repose the antennai, the surface surrounding the emargination deli 

 cately aciculated; the antennae are yellowish white; eyes oval, brown, 

 faceted and placed near the anterior lateral angles; mandibles large, 

 blackish, and dentate, the two apical teeth acute; the pronotum is 

 large, wider than long, and longer than the mesonotum and metanotum 

 united; the metanotum is a little shorter than the mesonotum; the 

 wings are represented by two white, thread-like appendages on each 

 side of the mesonotum. 



Type.— Q2ii. No. 9038, U.S.N.M. 



