NEW FlIILIPPINE HYMENOPTERA—ASIIMEAI). 401 



Manila. Several specimens obtained by Father Robert Brown from 

 the fruit of Fictix heterophyUa Linnasus. 



This species, the tirst in the ^enus to be noted in the Philippines, 

 appears to be closest allied to P. spiniger Mayr, described from Java 

 and Borneo. 



Genus MEGASTIGMUS Dalman. 



7. MEGASTIGMUS IMMACULATUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.6 mm.; ovipositor about the length of the whole 

 insect. Brownish yellow, with the scape and pedicel of the antenna?, 

 cheeks and face anteriorh^ and the legs pale yellowish or 3'ellowish 

 white; ej^es circular, red: sheaths of ovipositor black; wings hyaline, 

 the subcostal vein, the stigmal vein, and its large rounded knol) brown, 

 the other veins whitish or hyaline. 



The whole insect is smooth and shining, impunctate, but with some 

 delicate transverse stri{\? on the vertex back of the ocelli, on the pro- 

 notum, the mesonotum. and scutellum. 



7)//v.— Cat. No. 8953, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Rol)ert Brown.) 



Family CHALCIDID.^. 



Genus STOMATOCERA Kirby. 

 8. STOMATOCERA SULCATA, new species. 



Male. — Length 1.2 mm. Black and shining, l)ut distinctly, rather 

 closely punctate, the metathorax reticulately punctun^d, the depression 

 on the mesopleura longitudinally striate; teguhe and the front and 

 middle legs, except coxie, brownish vellow; their femora, especially 

 above, brown; the hind trochanters, a large spot at )»ascof hind femora 

 beneath and slightlv along their base, a small spot at apex, and the 

 hind tibia? and tarsi reddish brown; all coxtv and the hind femora, 

 except as already noted, black; the hind coxa' are concave posteriori}^ 

 for the reception of the base of the swollen femora when elevated; 

 the hind femora have a slight elevation beneath toward apex and are 

 finely serrated; the head is t)roadly concave in front, the concavit}" 

 surrounded by a delicate carina, the carina across the vertex separat- 

 ing the front ocellus from the lateral ocelli; the antemnv are inserted 

 far anteriorly and are separated h^r a carina; the tlagelium is filiform, 

 the tirst joint the longest, the others becoming slightly shorter and 

 shorter; the punctures on the lateral mesothoracic lobes posteriorly 

 are separated and rather sparse, the surface being smoother and more 

 shining than elsewhere; the scutellum is emarginate at apex and has a 

 sulcus down its middle; the abdomen is cone-shaped, the l)asal segment 

 occupying a little less than its basal half, the other segments being 



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