NO. 1424. NEW PHILIPPINE HYMENOPTEBA—ASHMEAI). 405 



vorg-e posteriorly and almost meet at the base of the .scutellum. the 

 latter being convexly rounded; the m.etanotum is i-ather short, with 

 a distinct median carina; the abdomen is fully as long as the thorax, 

 ovate, depressed, beneath subcompressed. the hypopygiuni slightly 

 projecting, plowshare-shaped. 



Male. — Length al)out 6.5 mm. Differs from the female in being 

 proportionally smaller, a little darker in color, the head more aeneous 

 ))lack, with purplish and metallic reflections, the abdomen smaller, less 

 than two-thirds the length of the thorax, and depressed, the anterior 

 legs and the middle coxge more yellowish white than in the female. 



Tf/j^e.— Cat. No. 8465, U.S.N.'m. 



Manila. Described from 6 female and 3 male specimens bred ])y 

 Prof. Tyler Townsend from a coccid and sent to Prof. T. D. A. Cock- 

 erell, of Boulder, Colorado, who transmitted them to me. 



Genus EURYCRANIUM Ashmead. 

 14. EURYCRANIUM SAISSETI^E, new species. 



Female.— Length 0.8 to O.U nun. Head and thorax blue black, the 

 eyes l)lack, the abdomen wholly brownish yellow, the scape of the 

 antenna? and the legs, except the coxa?, yellowish, the front and mid- 

 dle legs mostly metallic bluish but with the front tarsi and the middle 

 tibia? and tarsi yellowish. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. 



llale. — Length about 0.7 mm. Head and thorax aeneous black, the 

 head anteriorh^ in front bluish, the small, very short, depressed al)do- 

 men black with a strong violaceous tinge; the scape of the antenn;e is 

 more or less bluish; the legs black or brown ])lack, the sutures of the 

 joints, the knees, and tips of tibia? yellowish, the tarsi whitish. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins brownish, darker than in the female. 



Ti/jje.— Cat. No. 9037, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. Described from 3 female and 7 male specimens received 

 from Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell and bred by Prof. Tyler Townsend 

 from a coccid, Salt^setia nigra Nietner. 



The t3^pe of this genus, E. alcock! Ashmead, was bred from a coccid, 

 Cerojjlastes actmiformis Green, at Calcutta, India, b}^ Major xllcock. 



Family ICHNEUMONID.E. 



ELASMOGNATHUS, new genus. 



Head very large, quadrate, similar to that in the genus Tngoiialyit 

 Westwood, seen from above onl}' a little wider than long, the temples 

 wide, as wide as the eyes, the clypeus not at all separated from the 

 face, slightly angulated anteriorly and projecting slightly over the 

 mandibles; mandibles very broad and flat, terminating in two acute 

 teeth, the outer margin of the mandibles being strongly curved from 

 base to apex; labial palpi short, apparentl}" only 3-jointed, the iirst 



